First XI Match Reports

Saturday, 17th March 2007 ~ Northern Senior League

Bourton Rovers 1-3 Lydbrook

Rovers entertained 2nd placed Lydbrook on Saturday full of confidence after 2 wins in a row.

Bourton were without Stuart Hughes again and had Dave Davanzo and Mark Payne on the bench after they picked up slight injuries at Brockworth last week which meant a recall for Chris Mills and Kevin Hunt.
 

Bourton started the better of the 2 sides with Hunt terrorising the visitors left back but his final ball kept landing in the Lydbrook's keepers hands.
It was the Forest of Dean side who opened the scoring on 30 mins when a long clearance sent the Roves defence into confusion,Anders Harvey left the ball for his keeper Andy Herbert who eventually came to collect the ball,but it was to late the Lydbrook striker nipped in front of him and banged home.
 

Just before the break it was 2-0 when more hesitation in the home defence,this time from Tim Hudson who dallied on the ball and the Lydbrook striker again nipped in to toe poke the ball against Matt Winter and send Herbert the wrong way.

Bourton came out strong at the start of the 2nd half but could not find a way past the Lydbrook defence with the home team restricted to long range efforts. Rovers did get a goal back on 80 mins when Ryan Newhook played a superb through the defence and Chris Mills got on the end of it and smashed the ball into the net.

In a frantic last 10 minutes Bourton should of levelled when Keelan Gilbert burst through the away defence and crossed for Mills who blasted the ball straight at a defender on the line when he should of scored and to rub salt into the wound the Foresters went straight up the other end and made it 3-1 and take the 3 points.

 

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