Watling Youth 0 Square
Rangers 6
Saturday 1st December
2007
Square Rangers produced
a fine performance scoring five first half goals and adding one
further in the second half to take a six goal lead going into next
week’s home second leg.
Two fortuitous hand balls by Watling inside their own penalty area
allowed cool-headed Johnny Clarke to convert two almost identical
penalty kicks, and he completed a quite outstanding first half performance
by adding two further goals in the first half. Joe Evans looked
very lively too and his pace helped set up a number of chances as
Square Rangers gave the Watling defence a quite torrid time. Spencer,
Jack, Faheem and Jake were each looking to get forward at every
opportunity and a well-timed strike by Jack added to the score sheet
mid way through the half. At the back Stewart, Will, Nathan and
Josh all contributed well to restrict the home side to just a few
attempts on goal which were very well dealt with by Ryan.
The second half saw a better response by the home side and certainly
in the midfield area the game looked more even, however Rangers
did create a number of chances that were denied by the heroics of
the Watling goalkeeper. Rangers showed some excellent pass and move
football that did open up the Watling defence on a number of occasions
where Faheem and Joe were both unlucky not to get on the score sheet
with good efforts on goal. It was another great strike from Jack
that brought the only goal of the second half and although Watling
showed plenty of spirit they were never able to get beyond the Square
back four of Will, Louis, Ashley and well marshalled by Josh, to
exert any kind of pressure on the Rangers goal for the remainder
of the match.
Summary:
After a bright start the
momentum was clearly with Square Rangers and for the rest of the
match they did a good professional job in maintaining a decent lead
and keeping a clean sheet.
Man of the match:
Scored four goals and
always looked a threat - Johnny Clarke
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