Harbs
16-09-2007, 14:07
The game started off at a very good pace and Eye played the ball around very well while Sawtry were content with pushing the ball straight to the front men early on.
Eye went one nil down when a corner that was clear to every one at the game it should have been a goal kick was swung in while we were still moaning at the ref and went straight in the top corner with out any one touching it. so not a great start. (and a harsh lesson learnt that the refs decision is final.)
We passed the ball round very well and i should have got of the mark myself but some great saves from their keeper and hard battling from the sawtry defence held out until 3 or 4 minutes before the halfs end when a ball was stung home by in form dean clarke top corner.
Before the first half had ended our keeper defender and a Sawtry striker all got in a tangle with our keeper coming out worst off with a badly bruised hand.
in the second half Sawtry changed their tactics to stop our midfield passing the ball around and it worked when they took the lead for a second time. unfortunately sloppy defending on our part but good play from Sawtry.
It wasn't too long before a wonder strike from our super Sub Steve Mahony put us level, a tempting cross from our right winger Wes saw all players drawn to the ball only to see it sale over their heads and Steve with his first touch smashed a 18 yard volley past a shocked keeper!
All was going well at this point it was end to end and we had made our three subs with about 15 minutes to go when Sawtry struck a blow that would have sunk many teams.
Their striker dribbled the ball onto his left foot (ironically a shout from the side line came "do you even have a left foot") and boom straight down the throat of our keeper who hadn't had a great deal to do but was unable to stop it ploughing thru his injurd hand.
Now down to ten players and our centre back and captain Coxy having to go in goal things looked gloomy for a tired looking team on such a hot day and very hard ground Gino decides we have to push for the goal so we have 2 at the back 3 in the midfield 2 wingers and 2 strikers.
Very patient build up but after an error at the back from Sawtry and a incident that would fit in nicely on a Danny Bakers own goals and gaffs video the ball some how made its way accross to Ebo who slotted home the equaliser.
The best part of this for Eye was this started some arguing and bickering between the lads on the pitch for Sawtry who had made a few changes themselves.
we were on the back foot for most of the remaining time and rather than go defensive and settle for a draw the manager decides its 3 points and better to have tried or nothing... so after a quick free kick taken in the middle of the park by Danny clifton finds its way to me 40 yards from goal and almost the same amount of space between me to the nearest Sawtry player i had plenty of time to clip a ball over th heads of the Sawtry defence, allowing Steve the super sub to whizz past them and pass it square to an ever present Ebo who taps home his second and the winning goal with 4 minutes to go.
As you can imagine this blew the wind out the sales of our opponents and their striker ripped his shirt off and threw it to the ground in disgust!
extatic and amazed the final whistle went Gino had his Kittens and Eye extend their current unbeaten record to stay top of division 2. for now.
Eye went one nil down when a corner that was clear to every one at the game it should have been a goal kick was swung in while we were still moaning at the ref and went straight in the top corner with out any one touching it. so not a great start. (and a harsh lesson learnt that the refs decision is final.)
We passed the ball round very well and i should have got of the mark myself but some great saves from their keeper and hard battling from the sawtry defence held out until 3 or 4 minutes before the halfs end when a ball was stung home by in form dean clarke top corner.
Before the first half had ended our keeper defender and a Sawtry striker all got in a tangle with our keeper coming out worst off with a badly bruised hand.
in the second half Sawtry changed their tactics to stop our midfield passing the ball around and it worked when they took the lead for a second time. unfortunately sloppy defending on our part but good play from Sawtry.
It wasn't too long before a wonder strike from our super Sub Steve Mahony put us level, a tempting cross from our right winger Wes saw all players drawn to the ball only to see it sale over their heads and Steve with his first touch smashed a 18 yard volley past a shocked keeper!
All was going well at this point it was end to end and we had made our three subs with about 15 minutes to go when Sawtry struck a blow that would have sunk many teams.
Their striker dribbled the ball onto his left foot (ironically a shout from the side line came "do you even have a left foot") and boom straight down the throat of our keeper who hadn't had a great deal to do but was unable to stop it ploughing thru his injurd hand.
Now down to ten players and our centre back and captain Coxy having to go in goal things looked gloomy for a tired looking team on such a hot day and very hard ground Gino decides we have to push for the goal so we have 2 at the back 3 in the midfield 2 wingers and 2 strikers.
Very patient build up but after an error at the back from Sawtry and a incident that would fit in nicely on a Danny Bakers own goals and gaffs video the ball some how made its way accross to Ebo who slotted home the equaliser.
The best part of this for Eye was this started some arguing and bickering between the lads on the pitch for Sawtry who had made a few changes themselves.
we were on the back foot for most of the remaining time and rather than go defensive and settle for a draw the manager decides its 3 points and better to have tried or nothing... so after a quick free kick taken in the middle of the park by Danny clifton finds its way to me 40 yards from goal and almost the same amount of space between me to the nearest Sawtry player i had plenty of time to clip a ball over th heads of the Sawtry defence, allowing Steve the super sub to whizz past them and pass it square to an ever present Ebo who taps home his second and the winning goal with 4 minutes to go.
As you can imagine this blew the wind out the sales of our opponents and their striker ripped his shirt off and threw it to the ground in disgust!
extatic and amazed the final whistle went Gino had his Kittens and Eye extend their current unbeaten record to stay top of division 2. for now.