Sunk at Sundon

Sundon Park Rangers vs Brickhill

The old cliche of football being a game of two halves was never truer than today!

Brickhill started well and went on the attack from the beginning, winning a couple of corners in the first few minutes. Ewan managed a left foot shot which almost went in. Looked like we were in for a thriller! And so it proved to be. Dom's reactions were quick as a fox, Sam Hall took a ball in the face, the game was end to end with Sundon never looking much of a threat. Only the sticky pitch looked like upsetting the run of play.

Some strong build up play between Niall and Fred gave Ali a chance to score his debut goal. 1-0 to Brickill after about ten minutes. This seemed to fire both teams up and Sundon launched a series of attacks, one of which resulted in Dominic plucking the ball almost from the foot of a Sundon player with lightning reactions.

Sandra and Darren made a switch when Sam H was injured. Angus came on despite feeling unwell and made some strong challenges. There was some strong defending at both ends and Brickhill seemed to at last have grasped the princple of taking chances when they arose. All were playing with one aim in mind - to consolidate the score. Sam Crouch ran one of the opposition off the ball in what was a certain goal scoring opportunity. After sustained intimidation from his marker, Niall let his feet do the talking and lobbed the keeper from a tight angle near the side line to make it 2-0.

Half time arrived and Brickhill players and supporters were upbeat.......

35 minutes later, somehow the score was Sundon 3 - Brickhill 2. This was despite a string of fantastic saves from a very brave and hard working Dom, some intelligent reading of the game from Niall, some good defending from all the back four and solid play from everyone else. No-one made any mistakes and everyone contributed to the team effort.

We didn't have luck with us today, but take heart from the performance boys - it will come!