29 April, 2017
UNITED HANG ON TO BEAT THE RAPA!!
Wairarapa had come to Newtown Park to square off against the Orange and Blues with an impressive 4-1 record so far, looking to go 5-1 and head to the top of the table. United had other ideas, and our roving reporter Bobby Minshull had this to say about the match:
Hopefully Andy Hedge had his strongest squad of players for this game at Newtown Park, because Wairarapa were going to be strong opposition. Paul Ifill was a very good player in the English football leagues, and is reputedly a very good coach. Football is a wonderful game in which any team can win on the day and we needed to be one of those teams. We are a very very young side, did we have the playing ability to match such a strong side?
Our squad was as follows:
GK Keegan Smith
4 Liberato Cacace
5 Sam Phillip.
9 Williem Ebbinge.
10 Sarpreet Singh.
12 Luke Johnson.
13 Noah Tipene.
15 Liam Wood.
17 Luke Tongue.
20 Jack Henry-Sinclair.
22 Nick Lane.
Substitutes.
Res.goalkeeper. Zak Dean.
6 Ben Mata.
8 Ollie Whyte.
19 Thomas Raimbault.
21 Ruariri Cahill-Fluery
From the kick-off we looked confident and it was our lads who scored the opening goal, with Luke Johnson scoring a quality goal in the 12th minute. Golly, 10 or so minutes later Nick Lane chipped the ball over their keeper and into the net for our second goal and we looked impressive all over the park. However, Wairarapa were starting to show a bit more quality and scored a nice goal in the 30th minute, 2-1 to us. Our visitors were starting to get a grip on the game and player-coach Paul Ifill could have scored an equalizer shortly after but he failed, however, shortly after he made amends for his earlier "muck-up"
and scored the equaliser,2-2. This did not seem to bother our lads and we still played attacking footy and with the half-time whistle not too far away, we were awarded a penalty. Not exactly sure why, but Sarpreet Singh easily slotted the ball past their keeper giving us a 3-2 lead at the refs whistle for half-time.
The second half was not as exciting as the first, but when Wairarapa player-coach was fouled just inside our penalty box with 2O minutes to go, and he took the spotkick himself and he scored the vital equalizer for them. Yak. 3-3 and this lifted our visitors performance. Ben Mata was brought on in place of Luke Tongue to stiffen up our defence with 15 minutes to go, Fortunately for us Ollie Whyte gave us the lead again at 4-3, was this to be the final score? No chance, and our number 7 Tinashe Marowa scored a terrific goal making it 5-3. I must add Tinashe had been absolutely outstanding down our right flank and his goal was a just reward for his brilliant performance.
Wairarapa did manage to score a fourth goal before the final whistle but, we had clinched the 3 points thanks to young Tinashe's quality goal. Everybody happy? You bet we were. The 5-4 victory earning us three very valuable points was what we wanted and credit to both teams for the quality 90 minutes of football.
Hopefully Andy Hedge had his strongest squad of players for this game at Newtown Park, because Wairarapa were going to be strong opposition. Paul Ifill was a very good player in the English football leagues, and is reputedly a very good coach. Football is a wonderful game in which any team can win on the day and we needed to be one of those teams. We are a very very young side, did we have the playing ability to match such a strong side?
Our squad was as follows:
GK Keegan Smith
4 Liberato Cacace
5 Sam Phillip.
9 Williem Ebbinge.
10 Sarpreet Singh.
12 Luke Johnson.
13 Noah Tipene.
15 Liam Wood.
17 Luke Tongue.
20 Jack Henry-Sinclair.
22 Nick Lane.
Substitutes.
Res.goalkeeper. Zak Dean.
6 Ben Mata.
8 Ollie Whyte.
19 Thomas Raimbault.
21 Ruariri Cahill-Fluery
From the kick-off we looked confident and it was our lads who scored the opening goal, with Luke Johnson scoring a quality goal in the 12th minute. Golly, 10 or so minutes later Nick Lane chipped the ball over their keeper and into the net for our second goal and we looked impressive all over the park. However, Wairarapa were starting to show a bit more quality and scored a nice goal in the 30th minute, 2-1 to us. Our visitors were starting to get a grip on the game and player-coach Paul Ifill could have scored an equalizer shortly after but he failed, however, shortly after he made amends for his earlier "muck-up"
and scored the equaliser,2-2. This did not seem to bother our lads and we still played attacking footy and with the half-time whistle not too far away, we were awarded a penalty. Not exactly sure why, but Sarpreet Singh easily slotted the ball past their keeper giving us a 3-2 lead at the refs whistle for half-time.
The second half was not as exciting as the first, but when Wairarapa player-coach was fouled just inside our penalty box with 2O minutes to go, and he took the spotkick himself and he scored the vital equalizer for them. Yak. 3-3 and this lifted our visitors performance. Ben Mata was brought on in place of Luke Tongue to stiffen up our defence with 15 minutes to go, Fortunately for us Ollie Whyte gave us the lead again at 4-3, was this to be the final score? No chance, and our number 7 Tinashe Marowa scored a terrific goal making it 5-3. I must add Tinashe had been absolutely outstanding down our right flank and his goal was a just reward for his brilliant performance.
Wairarapa did manage to score a fourth goal before the final whistle but, we had clinched the 3 points thanks to young Tinashe's quality goal. Everybody happy? You bet we were. The 5-4 victory earning us three very valuable points was what we wanted and credit to both teams for the quality 90 minutes of football.
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