1sts v Westside

Last night, in front of a crowd of around 20, we played a league game at home v Westside.

The opposition arrived late and the start was delayed 15 minutes and it was agreed to play 40 mins each way.

FCCY got off to an excellent start, creating several good moves and a few chances. However, it wasnt until a fast break on 9 minutes that Mark Nolan raced onto a precise through ball and hammered an unstoppable shot into the top corner. Despite total control, it took another 10 minutes before a fantastic move ended with Nolan being tripped from behind when 1 on 1 with the keeper. A penalty but nothing else was awarded, very fortuneately for the defender who was the last man. Pepe Petrov stepped up and slotted beautifully into the bottom corner.

4 minutes later, Fraser Shaw-Morris raided dow the left, cut in then back onto his left peg and took a pop. The keeper somehow managed to miss it and the ball dribbled into the net! Then Luke Holborough produced a rasping shot which the keeper did very well to parry, but he had no help from his defence and Tom Jones tapped in the rebound. Within a minute, a fantastic cross from Mat Pike was headed home from 15 yards by Nolan to make 5-0 after 27 minutes.

Several other good chances were spurned and the visiting keeper did well.

The 2nd half was fairly quiet, as FCCY strolled about, knowing the points were safe. This allowed Chris Meaton to return to the side as a sub after a 6 week lay-off, replacing the excellent Nath Pritchard and Rich Callaway to make his debut at this level, up front (despite being a centre half). Rich even had a goal chalked off for offside after one of the several good moves that we were still creating sporadically, although a more determined opposition were able to create 2 or 3 chances. Then in the last minute, we conceded yet another goal from a set piece. The marking assignment at a corner went wrong, and a free header wasnt gathered by Tristan Miller in goal, allowing the attacker to have 2 more efforts before the ball went in.

Overall, a good performance and 3 very well deserved points. 5-1 is a good result at any level, especially when you know there is a lot more in the tank.

We remain 12th currently, and hope to move up possibly as high as 8th, if we can maintain our current good form, which has seen 3 consecutive league wins for the first time this season (6-1 v Bromham, 3-2 at Devizes and now this game).

On saturday , we play Shrewton(8th) away, then Warminster (15th) away on tuesday under floodlights (7.45 ko ). These are followed by , Corsham (17th) home sat 2nd may (3pm), Marlborough (11th) home tues 5th may (6.15 ko), Westside (14th) away thursday 7th may (6.15 ko), and finally Marlborough(11th) away on sat 9th may (3pm).