Victoria
University Unicorns
4- WU Salmon 2
Halftime 2-1
Wellington College
Turf
Scorers
Sam Mills
Matt Fulton
MOM Pts
Sam Mills 3 Pts
Callum Crane 2 Pts
Richard Martin 1 Pt
When is a loss like a win? When you are comprehensively
beaten by a team by 6 goals, then turn up to play them again and, despite
matching them in the first 30 minutes, go down to 2 well taken goals, only to
storm back to take the game down to the wire.
As I said post match; if we played like this every week we’d be chaellnging for the top two, rather than midtable.
We started with ten men so had to grab a Wgtn
College boy to fill in for the
first five minutes while Tom got ready. We also had the services of
Louis mcDonald- since his father John used to play a few games for the
Salmon it means that we are now a 2nd generational team!
The first ten
minutes, possibly more, were a real tussle. We sat back nice and deep
and absorbed what they threw at us, much to their frustration. After 20
minutes or so they broke through- their deaf striker had a great first
touch and finish. Soon after it was two and we were looking at a long
night ahead.
Then
we won a corner from a Preddle through ball- Craig's cross found Sam
unmarked just inside the box and he drilled his header home.
2-1 at the break and Uni knew we were a different team to last time.
We
looked deadly down the flanks, with Ashby on the left and Callum on the
right marauding- alas they got a third after 15 mins in the 2nd half- A
drilled shot was saved by Rich but he couldn't get up for the rebound
whcih dribbled over the line- Tom cleared but the ref signalled the
goal. We held on and kept at them, working our way into the game- Ashby
set up Fulton whose chip shot was just clawed wide by the keeper, and
Nic was getting into shooting range.
With
the clock running down Uni started pushing for the killer 4th, but when
they hit yet another shot wide of the mark the ensuing goal kick was
drillled down field, and (as discussed at lenght in the pub afterwards)
no fewer than four Salmon nudged the ball onwards toward goal before
Fulton finished witha fine chip from a tight angle to make it 3-2 with 7
to play. Uni were worried and their defensive fraility started to shopw
as the Salmon now pushed with purpose.
The
fight back was short lived, as we pushed they unleashed a ball down the
right- a deep lying Lane had the ball skid past him and their tall
timber forward ran onto it. Despite missing a mulititude of chances in
the match he made this one count. 4-2 with 5 to play. Salmon finished
well, winning a further two corners. It was all too late. We acquited
ourselves well and gave Uni a run for their dosh, but when it comes down
to it Uni are quite simply a better team,
not a great team & not wuite as good as they think they are, but
clearly the best team in this league, who should now go
onto win it. But in football any team can have their day and if we meet
them
again in the cup we need only play like we did last Thursday to run them
close
again.
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