Tues 20-04-2010 - Hundon 1v4 Fulbourn 1st Team (A)
Another bright but cold evening saw us at Hundon with it’s sloping pitch which makes good football difficult not helped by a hard bumpy surface which appears to have had a trench dug through the middle recently.
Fulbourn started poorly with passes going astray and the first touch not good probably due to the surface they were playing on. It took the lads 15 minutes to settle down and a few runs down the left side with some decent crosses quietened the home team down a bit.
Hundon were playing up the pitch employing the offside trap and playing the ball over the top for their forwards to run onto down the slope. Our defence dealt with them well until just before half time when they scored a really good goal to send us in a goal down. The local support were very surprised and were heard to remark that it was the scorer’s first goal of the season which they had expected to balloon into the tree’s like the rest of their first half efforts had.
As we guessed it would it was a different story after the break as Fulbourn started to exploit the slope and the fact that the home keeper had hobbled off injured. It was only a matter of time for us to level although Buster was called on to pull off a great save to keep us on the front foot.
Dave decided to bring on Sean Frost for Matt Glass who looked a bit off form, and his impact was felt immediately. Fulbourn began to mount attack after attack winning corners and free kicks and the inevitable happened after 20 minutes. Some great work from Smith culminated in “you know who” breaking the deadlock bundling our first goal. You’ve guessed it, it was of coarse Fearo who had settled down after a quiet start and added yet again to his impressive season’s goal total.
Unfortunately Smith was injured shortly after and looks doubtful for the rest of the season. Fulbourn had their tails up though and the stand-in keeper kicked out to Joey who slid it to Ben shortly afterwards and he lobbed over the hapless goalie to make it two. It was really a question of how many we scored and Fearo obliged again with a header and Sean Frost sealed it with a forth on 40 minutes.
This was a very solid result under difficult conditions and keeps up the pressure for the final few games with confidence high.
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