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King’s started brightly and were getting a lot of joy down the right with midfielder George Dermott constantly providing quality passes out to the wing. King’s early dominance was dealt a cruel blow however when the opposition centre back hit a hopeful free kick from just inside the King’s half, which sailed into the top corner…a goal Beckham would have been proud of! Despite this knock back King’s pushed for an equalizer but it just wouldn’t come. With the half coming to a close it was Mosslands who were getting stronger and they forced home a second from close range. Shortly after, an unlucky deflection off a King’s defender fell nicely into the path of a Mosslands striker who had the easy task of putting it into an empty net. After a very positive start King’s somehow found themselves down 3-0 at the break.
The message at half time was clear, if we play how we did in the first 20 minutes then we can get something out of this one. The lads responded extremely well and were rewarded for their efforts with a well-taken goal from winger Tom Williams. For the second time in the match though Mosslands scored a freak goal, this time directly from a corner. At 4-1 down King’s refused to give up the fight and scored 2 very good goals through Harry Jones and Alec Davies. Harry’s strike was a cracker following good work from midfielders Cameron Hogg and Rudi McCloskey.
With 3 minutes remaining King’s went in search of what would have been a deserved draw, but were caught short at the back and the visitors added a fifth late on.
Overall, the first 20 minutes and all of the second half were excellent, and if Mosslands hadn’t scored those 2 seemingly impossible goals the result could well have been different. MPJ

A real curate’s egg of a performance ultimately resulted in a comfortable victory.

With the influential Sam Powell absent through injury, we started poorly lacking composure in possession and urgency generally. Slowly but surely however the starting XI managed to clear their heads of non-football matters and began to assert themselves and thereafter whichever eleven players were on the pitch produced some sublime passing football.

Michael Barcroft impressed in central defence, George Okell continues to improve as does Simon Edholm who moved the ball as well as anyone today and I was particularly pleased with the considered and controlled performance of Nathan Evans whose unselfish play for three quarters of the game was rewarded with two goals to seal the victory late on.

The combination of Evans and Jordan Williams was a potent one. Jordan opened the scoring with an absolute screamer. He collected a lay off from Nathan just inside the opposition half and carried it forward before crashing the ball into the top corner from twenty yards. The same players combined again on the edge of the box at the end of a passing sequence which started with Matt Williams in goal but this time Jordan‘s sliced finish deprived us of an absolutely wonderful goal. He partly made up for this miss later with another superb finish from another Evans pass.

George Kaye’ pass of the game put Nathan in for his first then Jordan set up his strike partner for his second and our fourth.

In between there was lots of fantastic football. Combination play, particularly down the left, crossfield passes, crosses from in behind their defence and some surging runs and subtle passes from Jonny Verity.

2. We must therefore always work hard to present team-mates with a simple option – their ‘consolation ‘ goal came from Jonny trying a difficult pass because people didn’t ‘bust a gut’ to give him a choice of simple ones.

3. Against a top team we could well have been out of contention before we awoke from our slumber – this is most worrying with Mosslands, MGS etc on the horizon.

Congratulations and thank you to the players and to Mr. Stanley for the post match entertainment.

The combination of Evans and Jordan Williams was a potent one. Jordan opened the scoring with an absolute screamer. He collected a lay off from Nathan just inside the opposition half and carried it forward before crashing the ball into the top corner from twenty yards. The same players combined again on the edge of the box at the end of a passing sequence which took the ball from Matt Williams in goal but this time Jordan‘s sliced finish deprived us of an absolutely wonderful goal. He partly made up for this miss later with another superb finish from another Evans pass.

George Kaye’ pass of the game put Nathan for his first then Jordan set up his strike partner for his second and our fourth.

3. Against a top team we could well have been out of contention before we awoke from our slumber – this is most worrying with Mosslands, MGS etc on the horizon.