Windsor & Eton 0 – 0 Wealdstone

Windsor & Eton

0 - 0

Wealdstone

KO: 0:00 | Tue 12th Oct ’04

In the early stages, Stones seemed content to soak up a little pressure from the home forwards and to try and counter, which they did on a number of occasions, Beckford twice going close and forcing saves from the home keeper, while Carter in the Stones goal had little to do.

There were one or two hairy challenges going in on a greasy surface, and Gary McKeown was caught by two of these in a matter of seconds. After the second however he reacted and was sent off for a headbutt. Jolly dropped into the midfield role and Beckford became the lone man up front as Stones gamep lan changed to concentrate a little more on defence.

The remainder of the half and indeed the game followed a similar pattern with Stones defending quite deeply but competently enough to limit Windsor to an occasional shot from distance and a through ball ‘over the top’ in most part all capably dealt with by Andy Carter and on the odd forays forward, it was Stones that actually looked more dangerous as Beckford again, Jolly, Wolf, Ryan and Jones all forced saves from the home keeper.

It wasn’t the prettiest performance by far but in the circumstances it was extremely effective as it earnt Stones a valuable point.