The Terminator
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A rather bruising but satisfying win 3-0 win over a very physical Solihull. A big contrast in both teams styles of play. Solihull took us by suprise playing two up front and they caused us problems in the first half, especially on the break - We were thankful to Dean Brill for keeping us in the game with two fine saves.
We actually played round them with some nice stuff quite a few times, but our final pass/shot at times wasn't good enough.
I can see Solihull really putting the cat amongst the pigeons this season, they won't have enough to be anywhere near the playoff places, but they will piss alot of sides off with their gamesmenship and rough style. They kept fouling us constantly, leaving elbows in, as well as kicking our players at every chance. They started to gradually collect yellow cards, as the ref slowly saw what they was up to, their number 22 Corey O'Keeffe flat out kicked Jobi McAnuff after he skillfully went round him for one of the cards - never seen anyone do it that before.
The goal we scored right on half time was as sweet as they come, a team of giants allowing one of the shortest men on the pitch Charlie Lee to score a header from a corner.
Solihull bench wasn't happy because we scored in the 5th minute of stoppage time after 3mins was put up by the fourth official. Turns out the communication equipment broke between the officials and he was meant to put 5mins up - You couldn't make it up.
Second half their full back Jamie Reckord cost Solihull the game IMO, he came out too fired and quickly collected two yellow cards for two stupid fouls, then apart from one chance they created which Brill saved, we again saw the game out well i thought and we managed to score two goals on the break.
We're such a resiliant team now, 12 months ago we'd have lost that game after being intimidated by the oppsoition, but last night be managed to keep our composure against nasty opponents as well as coping with a very soft ref who missed at least two blatent fouls against us.
We actually played round them with some nice stuff quite a few times, but our final pass/shot at times wasn't good enough.
I can see Solihull really putting the cat amongst the pigeons this season, they won't have enough to be anywhere near the playoff places, but they will piss alot of sides off with their gamesmenship and rough style. They kept fouling us constantly, leaving elbows in, as well as kicking our players at every chance. They started to gradually collect yellow cards, as the ref slowly saw what they was up to, their number 22 Corey O'Keeffe flat out kicked Jobi McAnuff after he skillfully went round him for one of the cards - never seen anyone do it that before.
The goal we scored right on half time was as sweet as they come, a team of giants allowing one of the shortest men on the pitch Charlie Lee to score a header from a corner.
Solihull bench wasn't happy because we scored in the 5th minute of stoppage time after 3mins was put up by the fourth official. Turns out the communication equipment broke between the officials and he was meant to put 5mins up - You couldn't make it up.
Second half their full back Jamie Reckord cost Solihull the game IMO, he came out too fired and quickly collected two yellow cards for two stupid fouls, then apart from one chance they created which Brill saved, we again saw the game out well i thought and we managed to score two goals on the break.
We're such a resiliant team now, 12 months ago we'd have lost that game after being intimidated by the oppsoition, but last night be managed to keep our composure against nasty opponents as well as coping with a very soft ref who missed at least two blatent fouls against us.