Wealdstone 4 – 0 Rusilip Manor
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4 - 0
First half the teams were pretty even. Had a few chances but Ruislip had the best of the missed chances when their pacey forward went through 1 on 1, and Carter made a smart save to his left. Ben scored just before the interval. He wriggled through 3 defenders using his strength to beat them and just clipped the ball over the on-coming keeper. other than that it was non descript as far as the Stones were concerned. Second half however was a different story.
We totally dominated. Fitness told and Ruislip had no answer. Carter wasn’t tested at all. Jermaine scored early on, he did not give up after he saw his initial shot parried by the keeper for a tap in. Unfortunately he went of shortly after that with what looked like a pulled hamstring.
The third goal was a simple tap in by Jolly after the impressive McKeown’s long range thunderous shot was again parried by the keeper. Marvin rounded the scoring off with another tap in near the end. Second half we where not tested and it was a cake walk really, but I hope we get some confidence out of this win if nothing else. Northwood in the semis next week apparently, lets see if we can at least salvage something out of this disastrous season.
Team: Andy Carter, James Fisher, Brett Freeman (b16), Matt Kidson (s70 Dave Ryan), Danny Butler, Martin Carter, Jason Shaw (s70 Alon Hemmerdinger), Gary McKeown, Ben Alexander (40), Richard Jolly (66), Jermaine Beckford (54, s57 Marvin Morgan (84)), Subs not used: Rob Courtnage, Danny Tilbury
Report by Paul Cooke