SPARTAN SOUTH MIDLANDS PREMIER LEAGUE

The Hare's had their regular defensive midfield unavailable for this match and the rearrange side was unable to contain the visitors forwards and midfield players as they found it easy to attack the Red's defence from the start and they created several good chances in the opening minutes.
The Hare's were finding it difficult to keep the visitors at bay and it was not surprising that they found the back of the net in the 16th minute when from the edge of the penalty area they knocked the ball into the 6 yard box and their striker who was virtually on the goal-line slid the ball home, but the referee deemed he was offside.
Kings continued to pressurise the Hare's defence and from a similar move minutes later the visitors attacked down the left and the ball was hit low into the box were their Benny Fiadzomor opened the scoring when he prodded the ball into the net.
Midway through the half United reorganised the team in an attempt to kerb Langleys attack by changing their formation and it participially worked as they managed to get to the break without any further score although this was mainly due to poor finishing by King's strikers and last ditch saves and clearance by the Hare's defence.
The Hare's came out for the 2nd half with a further adjustment to the team shape and there was an immediate improvement in the team performance as they got a better share of the ball and from an attack in the 51st minute RYAN EGAN was fouled in the box and the referee awarded the Reds a penalty. MICHAEL CHENNELLS gave the King's goalkeeper no chance by slotting the resultant spot kick into the bottom corner of the net.
The match after this was fairly even but in the 61st minute RYAN KINNANE was sent off when he received his 2nd caution of the game and this again required the reshaping of the team. The players should be extremely proud with their response to this set back as for the remainder of the match they raised their game and work really hard by chasing all lost causes, and restricting the visitors to mainly long range from outside the box.
Team: Francis, Kinnane, Miller , Egan, Bennell, Goode- Keeley (Ferguson 25),
Barton (Trenholme 45), Clarke-Samual (Mitchell 78) , Chennells, Smith, Newman.
Subs. Not used: Burt, Reader.

PHOTO MICHAEL CHENNELLS Goal scorer