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MATCH
REPORTS - FIRST TEAM
Sussex Senior Cup 2nd
Round
Saturday
27th
October
2007
ROBINS
BOOK PLUM TIE WITH BOROUGH
Shoreham
0-2 Hassocks
Hassocks
booked a plum home tie with Eastbourne Borough in the
3rd round of the Sussex Senior Cup with a
2-0 win at Shoreham. Goals from Anthony Hibbert and
Matt Amos sealed their passage through in a drab
affair that offered very little goalmouth action or
entertainment for the crowd.
Shoreham
went into the game with just the dangerous Darren
Annis up front on his own, Ashley Marsh doing a superb
job marshalling him. Spencer Slaughter slotted in at
sweeper in the absence of the suspended Stuart Faith
and also did a commendable job, as did Peter Lear in
shepherding Laurence Edwards, who hardly had a kick
all afternoon. The away side coped admirably with
anything aerial that Shoreham threw at them and apart
from the first 15 minutes, Joel Harding was rarely
tested.
Early
chances fell to the home side, Paul Schofield firing
over from 12 yards when well placed and Jamie Groves
shooting straight at Harding from 3 yards, when he
should have scored from Annis’s corner. Hibbert
fired well over but it was the midfielder who gave the
Robins the lead on 28 minutes, thanks to a schoolboy
howler from keeper Steve Allfrey. Hibbert’s shot
from 18 yards lacked his usual power but Allfrey
managed to let the ball slip through his hands,
between his legs and the ball trickled over the line
for the softest of goals. The industrious Matt Robbins
had a shot saved by Allfrey as the half petered out.
If
entertainment was in short supply in the first period,
the second half was even poorer fare, both sides
struggling to get the ball down on a difficult
surface. Gault headed wide from a Hibbert cross, Annis
fired just wide and Sam Fisk was denied by the feet of
Allfrey. The Robins sealed the win in the 90th
minute, Amos tapping home from Hibbert’s pinpoint
centre, to make the journey back from Cambridge
University for the weekend worth it.
Hassocks
can now look forward to the visit of Eastbourne
Borough and hopefully a bumper crowd, no doubt
intrigued by the return of Pat Harding to the Beacon.
Team:
Harding, Turner (Simpson, 90), Thompson, Marsh, Lear,
Slaughter, Robbins, Fisk, Hibbert, Gault, Sheriff
(Amos 83)
Unused
subs: Newington, Jacques, Wickwar
Middy
Starman: Ashley Marsh - did a superb job on Shoreham
dangerman Darren Annis, although Pete Lear ran him
close with another consistent effort
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