4s Match report A tale of two halves! St Francis travelled to Eastbourne aswell but a little bare on numbers and having to employ a reluctant Stuart Campbell up front even though he was carrying a knee ligament injury. Saints took a while to settle but were very very quiet and seemed to lack belief even though they were comfortably holding the frequent Eastbourne attacks. The funny thing was that having deployed Campbell up front he was still required to come back and defend at defensive short corners, it was probably this that allowed him to let a shot go through him for Eastbournes first goal. Saints withdrew into themselves and then found themselves 2-0 down and waiting for half time. After some encouraging words Saints restarted a totally different team, showing plenty of movement and intensity. All of a sudden passes were being put together. Young Luke Allum in the middle was exerting an authority beyond his years and was finding Nigel Furminger who was linking play excellently. With play opening up, Eastbourne were attacking more and more on the counter and a string of fine saves by Keeper/captain Richard Foulger keeping Saints in the game as the back three of Paul Drew, Nick Budibent and Peter Fermer became stretched. Then the best move of the match happened; Tom Harvey sent the ball from the right back position to Janek Lewandowski on the left wing who drove into the Eastbourne D and crossed the ball to the tightly marked Campbell who controlled the ball and shot for his first goal at the right end this season. The game completely swung to Saints for the next 10 minutes, but Eastbourne weathered the storm and came back strongly attacking mainly down their left where Jack McDonald had to learn a lot about defending (normally a centre forward), eventually a ball got into the centre of the D where the Eastbourne player controlled the ball with his back to goal, took a step back as the keeper came towards him and over he went! P Flick!!!!!!! Feeling slightly hard done by the keeper took his time getting ready, which worked as the penalty taker got it all wrong and sent the ball wide. More attacks, scrambled defending and last ditch saves followed until Eastbourne converted a short corner somewhat fortuitously off a defenders foot! The game ended 3-1 to Eastbourne when a draw would have been fairer on Saints. Personally I thought Nigel Furminger was MoM but democracy gave it to me, Richard Foulger for shear number of saves made.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 09:36:37 +0000
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