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MATCH
REPORTS - YOUTH TEAM
Sussex County Youth League
Central Division
Sunday
08th
October
2006
YOUNG ROBINS RUE MISSED CHANCES
Peacehaven
and Telscombe 1-1 Hassocks
With
their previous weeks fixture being cancelled Robins
took a little time to settle and adjust to match
conditions. Once they had aclimatised they began to
take control of the match, restricting the home team
to a few long range efforts. Creating far more scoring
opportunities than Peacehaven should have meant a
healthy half time advantage for the Robins but the
teams went in all square at 0-0. A well taken goal
just after the break from Lawrence Robinson after
collecting a flick on from fellow striker Matt Amos
and netting from just inside the penalty area, gave
the Robins the edge. The second half was much the same
as the first with Peacehaven providing very little
threat and Robins strikers Robinson and Amos missing
easy chances to put the match in no doubt. Defending a
1-0 lead is always a difficult situation and so it
proved when in the 54th minute a speculative shot from
outside the Robins penalty area ended up in the back
of the net to bring the game level. This was the first
time in the match that Peacehaven had managed a shot
on target. With 10 minutes to go Hassocks introduced
sub Nathan Miles who then promptly found the
Peacehaven net, but the goal was disallowed on a linesman's
flag for alleged shirt pulling. In the end Hassocks
paid the penalty for not converting their earlier
opportunities into goals and had to settle for a point
instead of the three that their possession domination
should have yielded.
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