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AFAN LIDO
1-1 CWMAMAN INSTITUTE
By
Peter Reynolds
Against probably the poorest
side we've met this year we again failed to take advantage and paid dearly for
our sloppy play. For the second home match running we had a referee who liked
his whistle and with six bookings to us and a sending off his pen must have run
out of ink! At least we started on the attack when Umberto Brassiello went down
the right got to the corner flag and crossed a defender cleared to Dale Lambrick
who shot first time from 25 yards over the bar.
After 10 minutes Corey Thomas
cut out a clearance and played it to Umberto who won a corner. Remi Whitelock
took the corner to Damon Thomas whose cross was just too long with Umberto
closing in on goal. Just after the quarter hour another corner from Remi went
across the face of goal with no-one getting a touch.
Twenty minutes in and the
Cwmaman keeper flapped at a cross but had time to recover and clear with no-one
challenging him. Three minutes later the inevitable happened, a long ball over
the top of our defence found their lone striker who shot past Rory McCreesh in
goal. At least our response was immediate, Corey Thomas went down the right but
his cross was too long, Remi Whitelock picked it up and crossed for Umberto
Brassiello to leap and score with a fine header. Sam Nolan was then booked for
kicking the ball away but such was the refs inconsistency that when they did it
minutes later he ignored it.
On the half hour a long kick
from Rory McCreesh was picked up by Umberto who made ground down the right and
crossed for Corey Thomas but he headed over the bar from 8 yards. In the final 5
minutes of the half the ref managed to book Remi Whitelock, Stave Hughes and
Luke Borrelli. There's not a lot to say about the second half, we failed to
spread the ball wide, stretch the defence and get crosses in. In the first few
minutes of the half we had free kicks around the edge of the box but Remi
Whitelock shot over the bar and Damon Thomas put his wide.
With just over 10 minutes to go
Luke Borrelli shot and at least worked the keeper who turned his shot behind for
a corner. Just for good measure in the last few minutes Remi Whitelock was sent
off for a second yellow card and both Shaun Morgan and Umberto Brassiello were
booked after the ref gave a free kick against us when we were in a good
attacking position.
Lido side: Rory
McCreesh Sam Nolan Matt Beynon Damon Thomas
Luke Borrelli Dale Lambrick Remi Whitelock Corey
Thomas Nathan Hodgson Steve Hughes Umberto
Brassiello
Subs: 12 Tom Darlington 14 Ellis Harris 15 Shaun
Morgan for Sam Nolan 57
Bookings: Sam Nolan 28 Remi Whitelock 43 Steve Hughes 45
Luke Borrelli
45 +2 90 +2 Shaun Morgan and Umberto Brassiello
Red Card Remi Whitelock (2nd yellow) 90
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