Long Melford Blues
U14s 4 – 0 Stanway Rovers U14s Blues (February 21st 2010)
In the second
round of the Open Cup, the Colts were drawn against A league rivals Stanway Rovers.
The match was played in wet and difficult conditions of which the Colts coped with
far better than their opponents.
Melford were
dominant in the early exchanges of the game and Rovers rarely got out of their
own half. The first goal of the game was scored by Alex Fulller, after a
delivery from the wing, Alex tapped home from inside the six yard box.
Defensively the back four were solid, on one rare attack on the Melford goal, Liam
Andrews made a quite brilliant tackle in the box leaving the Rovers attacker
bemused about his missed opportunity.
The second goal
of the game came midway through the first half, and after another dangerous
ball in their box and a bit of a goal mouth scramble, it was Joel Challis who
capitalised on Rovers shaky defending and smashed the ball home from close
range. In the second half, Colts started
at an electric pace, James Spurway, Ross Marsh and Ollie Huckle battled fiercely
in the midfield and gave Rovers no time on the ball at all.
Melfords’s third
goal came from a long range direct free kick, it was Cameron Dolan-Roberts who
stepped up to the kick and with a sweet strike, he rifled the ball into the
bottom corner of the net giving the static keeper absolutely no chance.
High on
confidence and with not much of the game remaining, the Colts even had the time
for some crowd pleasing showboating, all topped off with Melfords man of the
match Brett Savage, beautifully striking the fourth goal of the game past a
bewildered Rovers keeper.
