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| The Albion lost tonight, 3-1
at the hands of St Johns. The opposition scored first, they’d
had a couple of attempts and eventually one of them kicked the
ball in our goal. From the start they looked mobile and fit, they
obviously train together as their movement off the ball was excellent.
We didn’t do that badly ourselves by the way, there were
several great moves where the ball was brought out from the back,
passed around a bit then a killer ball was played. Dan setting
up James, and James setting up Irish Pete spring instantly to
mind, as does our goal, James pouncing on a rebound and Joss striking
well. We had a good half, looked pretty tight, and went in at
half time feeling that we should have done better. |
| St Johns had the better of
the second half, we started to look a bit stretched although still
had our chances. Unfortunately they had a few more than we did,
Giles had to make the save of the season after fifteen minutes
(and then had to pluck a dodgy header back from nowhere seconds
later) and eventually they made it 2-1 after their criminally
offside striker had only the keeper to beat. The through ball
did rebound off Steve which might have clouded the linesman’s
judgement but still, I think that I did well not to offer him
my glasses after that. Then they got another, it was actually
an own goal which looked like it had been cleared, dodgy lino
had other ideas though. |
| Obviously getting
beaten is not good, in mitigation this team are at the top of
our division and looked good. It shows our recent improvement
that afterwards we felt that we should have got a much better
result, those of you who’ve been around for a couple of
season will be all too aware of the potential for second half
capitulation against quality opponents once we’re a goal
down. Individually everyone played well, we just need a little
more steadiness and confidence and we’ll be O.K. The tendency
is sometimes to get the ball forward as quickly as possible but
we are much better when we play the passing game. So as long as
we talk to each other so we know when we’ve time on the
ball then Bob’s your uncle. |
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Tonight’s man of the match is Dan.
Talk, passing and effort, can’t ask for more. Runner up
is Giles who seems back to his old self, and well done centre
half Mark on his debut, some vital tackles and another talker
too. |
| The team: (4-4-2
r-l): Giles; Sean, Mark, Steve, Phil J (Stuart 75); Irish Pete,
Dan(c) (Aidan 45), Rich, MH Pete; James, Joss (Tom 65) |
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