Eurosoccer Nottinghamshire Senior League: Division One
MEDEN VALE COLTS FC 3 GEDLING SOUTHBANK FC 4
A short trip today after being in Cornwall for the past 3 Saturdays, Meden Vale a well set up club with a grass pitch railed inside a cage, with a neat changing room building that houses a lovely refreshment bar that sells everything from Bacon cobs to crisps, bovril to pot noodles and loads of sweets for the kids.
The form before the match showed the Vale sitting in 3rd place whilst Gedling Southbank who play their home matches on the main pitch at Arnold Town FC sat with no points rooted at the bottom, so simple, a home win, but hey no wonder my William Hills account is rubbish predicting results before matches!
Vale's Chairman Adam got me a couple of chairs set out on the halfway line for me and my son Shawn as I sat and drank my cuppa and Shawn guzzled down his can of pop. The referee today was Evan Lordy in charge of his first Notts Senior League match and as both sets of teamsheets were in, it was out to the field of play just as Blog sponsors Herbie and Sue arrived.
The game kicked off with Meden with the wind behind their backs and they did the most of the pressing in the first half but neither goalkeeper had a serious save to make, but then after 40 minutes, JAKE SMITH latched on to a loose ball from 30 yards and hit it in to the top corner of the net to give the homesters a 1-0 lead.
During the Half Time interval, it was a bit strange,as Vale stayed out for a team talk and the visitors well half went to the changing room and half to the bench.
The Second Half began and both sides began the half evenly, but on 56 minutes, a corner was given to the visitors on the right hand side and it came across for JOSHUA HARRIS to scoop down low for head home the equaliser. Meden werent happy as they felt a previous throw in should have been given the other way and then began to argue amongst themselves.
The Vale pushed forward again and were denied when a last ditch effort was cleared off the line. On 69 minutes, Southbank went ahead for the first time in the match, when a mix up in the Vale defence saw THOMAS ROWLANDS whipped and chip the ball over the keepers head in to a empty net.
After 82 minutes, Gedling extended their lead, when a pin point pass to midfield, saw the ball neatly played through for LEWIS HARRISON to finish and make it 3-1 surely that was it, but oh no, straight from kick off, the Colts gained a corner on the right side and JAKE SMITH headed it home.
Now Vale began to play and push forward with the clock ticking down and on 88 minutes, they were back on level terms when JORDAN SMITH made it 3-3. Everyone must have thought they had rescued a point, but the visitors had other ideas when THOMAS ROWLANDS broke away and bared down on goal before hitting home the winner for the visitors, which lifted them off the bottom of the table.
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