Yeading 2 – 1 Wealdstone

January 21, 2020 ⋅ 2004-05

Yeading

2 - 1

Wealdstone

KO: 0:00 | Tue 15th Feb ’05

Two different views, from Sudhirt Rawal and Neale Harvey:

Stones pay dearly for missed chances after Ding have a player sent off.

Fairly even first half both teams miss chances – Morton being the worst culprit for us and Campbell for them. Ding start the 2nd half better but then have a player sent off for a crude challenge. Stones then miss three or four golden chances, twice before they score and twice after. Jolly hits the bar when faced with an open goal, Morton blazes over when one on one with the keeper.

Morgan scores for Ding when a cross was easily Carter’s ball but Morgan beat him to it. Bad error. Then Coyne ducks under a cross at the far post – bottled it really – and then Morgan has another good chance. Ding then score a sloppy goal straight through Carter’s legs.

Stones grabbed one goal at the death.

Funny how people’s opinions vary.

I would say that was almost the perfect away performance last night: sucked them in, allowed them to play in their own half but barely threaten us while having some good chances ourselves, then frustrate them into having the man sent off. And if Jolly’s shot goes in, we’re favourites to win by 2 or 3.

But it didn’t. Instead, they go up the other end and score the softest goal imaginable.

Overall, we missed five sitters: two in the first five minutes, Jolly, Morton’s shot and the non-header – which I believe was Lee Holland not Coyne, but I stand to be corrected – and that is the telling statistic.

But the fact is, we’ve competed strong in five games against the top three and come away with single goal defeats each time, so the margins are small. As long as they can put the disappointment behind them we should be okay for 12th-15th, which everybody would have settled for at the start of the campaign.

I was disappointed the players came off to silence last night as I thought they deserved a clap for a performance that ought to have brought us a positive result. Gordon’s entitled to be disappointed by that.