Burnie 1 – 3 Ulverstone
Match Report
It was an eventful game yesterday at Montello and I am sure spectators views on the game might be different to mine.
Burnie had the better start to game however they found themselves a goal down when Michael Grey went past his defender (Elliot I think) and was brought down for a clear penalty. Ben Foote slotted the penalty with confidence.
Five minutes later Burnie drew level with a penalty of their own after Sam Wood handled the ball in the box. De Bomford hammered the penalty home past Will Cox-Haines.
It was an uneventful first half really. Both teams only produced 1 or 2 decent chances each.
Things started to heat up in the second half with a scuffle between Joel Stone and a Burnie player resulting in Joel getting a fair whiff of his opponent’s arm-pit via a headlock. To both teams credit the situation didn’t escalate and both teams got on with it.
After a tight first 25 minutes Conor Meaney out-paced the Burnie defence to be one-on-one. The Keeper saved his first attempt, however Conor followed up to make it 2-1.
We scored our third in a similar fashion when Michael Grey out-paced the defence again to lob the advancing keeper with about 10 minutes to go.
Burnie had an excellent opportunity to pull a goal back in the last minute however it was courageously blocked by Cox-Haines in goals.
There were 2 send-off’s in the second half. I don’t know who got sent off for Burnie but it was a straight red for foul language. I didn’t hear it but apparently the player in question requested quite loudly that he wanted someone to undertake the mating process with him. Ulerstone's Kyle Baldock received a second yellow soon after for what I assume was consistent infringement of the laws of the game.
Why we won
Watching Prospect beat Burnie the week before was important to getting a victory in this game. Burnie pushed numbers forward a lot of the time but were slow to regroup to help their defence. Sessay and Croswell exposed the Burnie defence because of this and they earned a victory.
We knew we would absorb a fair bit of pressure and we did that without letting Burnie get decent shots on goal. If you were a neutral observer you would have said Burnie had the better of the game but it was our game plan to absorb that pressure and score on the counter. I felt our attacking players were good enough to exploit Burnie’s slow backline and they did that.
Please feel free to send me a match report from your game. Pop your name on it and send it to me in a post. I will do it up as I did with this one.
ReplyDeleteHelp is always appreciated!
Hi Nick, you are welcome to cut and past our report from northernrangers.com
ReplyDeleteNick you have described the game very well'
ReplyDeleteI will thouigh add that Burnie played without Sam and Peter Van Ek[both away]Ashley[injured] and Kaimon[suspended].The Burnie player was sent off for swearing to himself but the mref.was close enough to hear him and players should know bwtter than that.
I would also like to commend the ref and linesmen for a very good job.
All the best for the rest of the season for both teams.
Peter Christofi.
The player that was sent off from Burnie was Andy Gibson. I dont think that Van Ek or Ash Smith would make much of a difference to the Burnie side that played Sat.
ReplyDeleteWhy am I not surprised to read a Burnie player was sent off for swearing..Peter Christofi 100% correct..players should know better than that.Sadly Peter it doesnt seem the players at Burnie do know better..The word is discipline..If Burnie develop it they could be a very powerful club..
ReplyDeleteMy dear anonymus friend..The Burnie player did not commit a foul on an oponent and was unlucky that the ref was close and heard him.The Ulv. player was sent off for a second bookable[foul]offence. Every club gets these problems occasionally and some more than Burnie.
ReplyDeleteI do put my name down and would be nice if others referring to my comments could do the same.
OTHERWISE IT IS A SEND OFF OFFENCE!!!!!
Peter Christofi.