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Poole
Borough 1 Sturminster Marshall 1
Stur Line-up:
1.Paul
Maitland, 2.Ryan Mole, 3.John Elliott, 4.Lloyd Bird, 5.Stuart Revell, 6.Graham
Duff, 7.Matt Jones, 8.Ross Humphrey, 9.Mark Henson, 10.Dave Clements, 11.Phil
Sweetland
Substitutes:
12. Joe Wood
(for Jones 45), 14. Scott Thomas (for Henson 45), 15. George Kniffe (for Mole
75)
Goals:
Stur:
Clements
Poole: Squire
Star man:
Dave Clements
The two local
rivals met for the second time in a week and produced another entertaining
fixture for the Turlin Moor crowd.
Both teams needed to win the
game to have any realistic chance of progressing from the round robin league
format into the semi finals of the league cup and both teams were prepared to
attack. Stur keeper Paul Maitland was called into action as early as the second
minute when he had to leave his line to save at the feet of Jamie Holland.
Almost immediately, Stur fullback John Elliot picked up the ball inside his own
half and went on a determined run which took him into the Borough penalty area
before he was finally beaten in the tackle.
Borough broke
away through the inside left channel and the ball was played across the face of
the Stur goal. The ball eluded the onrushing Borough support and was hacked
clear by Lloyd Bird. Stur carved out a good chance on the half hour mark when
Ross Humphrey broke clear of the Borough defence, but his first time long-range
shot cleared the bar.
The away side had a lucky
escape on the stroke of half time when Diaper cut the ball back from the bye
line but the final shot was blazed over the bar from 4 yards out.
Stur began to
show more promise after the break. A sustained period of pressure appeared to
have earned its reward when Humphrey headed home a right wing corner but the
goal was ruled out for a push. Scott Thomas’s searing pace was causing all kinds
of problems for the Borough defence and just before the hour mark he left two
covering defenders for dead before placing the ball neatly past the advancing
keeper only to see his effort ruled out for offside.
Borough
gradually began to regain a foothold in the game and won a free kick in a
dangerous position on the left hand edge of the area. The kick took a deflection
from a defender and went wide. Two minutes later the home side won another free
kick in a similar position which Maitland did well to block.
It looked as
though Stur would finally break the deadlock in the 80th minute when
Thomas once again beat the Borough defence for pace and got onto the end of a
through ball but his shot from a wide angle crept agonisingly wide of the far
post.
A goal seemed
inevitable and it came in the 84th minute. A Borough attack broke
down and Duff hit a long ball forward. Clements picked up the ball on the half
way line and ran through unopposed on goal before coolly slotting past the
advancing Elliot Broome.
Borough threw
everything forward and equalised a minute from time. Diaper made a strong run
into the area and although Maitland managed to block his powerful shot, the
rebound fell straight to the feet of Squire who hammered the ball home.
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