Starting line up
Karl Bolton
Gideon Barnett
Steven ‘Boney’ Bone
Carlos Gordon
Ash Farrell
Nhamo Matamisa
Tom Butress
Jordan Mills
Pete Snell
Barry Clark
Will Hodges
Subs
Liam Angell (c) Gavin Henry
Thami El Fane
Match report
In the Glemnet Intermediate Novets cup we travelled for a local derby to Gunnersbury park to take on one of the Old Actonian teams. We did have a good looking squad this week but it was A match that had somewhat of a disjointed start after certain people arrived well after kick off and due to having to chase people 10minutes before kick off yours truly Straight Shootin’ LJA didn’t have a warm up, but I’ll come back to that later. We went 1-0 down quite quickly after Tom Buttress (in his 2nd game after returning from a long term injury) conceded a penalty, which in all honesty was a stonewaller. After the goal we did get back into it and with a quality corner from Gideon, Barry ‘Baz’ Clark leveled the scores at 1-1. We had a reshuffle to make quite early on in this match and much earlier than I expected as Tom Butress pulled his groin, but I was directly culpable for the next goal as their striker (no.10) was lively and caught me napping at the near post after coming in from the left and slotted neatly past Boney into his far right hand corner to put us 2-1 down. I do admit culpability in this goal because it was my fault but admittedly I took my eye off the ball as I was more concerned with things happening off the pitch rather than on it.
Half time rolled around and after some wise words from Boney and my attempt at a motivational speech we went out and gave it a go in the 2nd half.
We did battle but we did go 3-1 down with a speculative shot that went under Boney’s foot (which he did blame on a bobble) but we got it back to 3-2 with Jordan’s goal eventually being bundled in after Old Actonians couldn't clear their lines, fortuitous was definitely the word I’d choose for the goal but I wasn’t complaining. It was soon 4-2 to old Actonians after their big ginger attacker bulldozed his way through the middle of our midfield & lobbed Boney who was only just off his line, much to the delight of the kids who had congregated behind the goal to cheer Actonians on. We did pull back another 4-3 with Gideon putting away a low effort similar to the 2nd goal we conceded after good buildup from the right hand side especially involving Carlos Gordon but in the end we did come up a bit short. It was a cup game as mentioned earlier so we did experiment with the 3-5-2 formation which we worked hard on to make work but midway through the 2nd half we did revert to 4-4-2, it was a match where reshuffling was done quite a bit but there were positives in terms of how hard everyone worked so we move and groove on to next week.
I’m Straight Shootin’ LJA and that’s my take on the match
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