Airbus UK Broughton 3-0 Caersws (March 6 2010)
Airbus comfortably dispatched a fairly poor
Caersws side with clinical efficiency.
They were in no mood to let The Bluebirds in
with a sniff of a third successive victory and set about them from the start,
giving them no time to settle. There were two early close shaves for the
Caersws goal and the pressure steadily mounted, the defences creaking
ominously. It told after a quarter of an hour, Jamie Smith wandering into the
area with the ball at his feet, touching it gently in off the far post. Ryan
Edwards, however, then had to clear away a dangerous in-swinging low cross and
for a little while there was a bit of pressure on the Airbus goal but things
soon settled down and as half time approached the game had gone a bit stale
with The 'Bus in control and Caersws unable to mount anything serious. The
inevitable second goal arrived on the stroke of half time. Carl Owen
misdirected a header and there was Smudger Smith again to direct the loose
ball on target & in.
The second half was one way traffic and everyone
anticipated the long-awaited first Airbus hat-trick in the Premier League but
Craig Harrison decided to make history wait a little longer by taking Smith
off ten minutes in to give Marc Lloyd-Williams a chance to try and discover
some of his old fire. In the meantime James McIntosh forced a good leg save
from Dave Jones in the first attack, Danny Desormeaux belted over from a good
position and Carl Owen was foiled in his attempted chip by a smart backward
dive by the 'keeper. Number three was preceded by Caersws' only other chance
of the game, Gio heading off the line without too much trouble from a clever
flicked header that beat Rogers. The next goal was a smart one, A Rhys Roberts
header on, Dessie a short cross back and Mark Allen there on the six yard box
to purposefully steer in. It could easily have been four as Airbus continued
their patient assault. Jack Abraham teed up a distance shot from a wayward
clearance, well saved at the foot of the post; a nice set of 1-2s led to
Dessie pulling his shot an inch past the post and finally a Macca diving
header glanced wide.
Airbus UK Broughton line up:
K Rogers, R Edwards, R Roberts, M Woodward, M Allen, J
Abraham, J Smith, D Desormeaux, C Owen, J McIntosh, G
Felliciano.
Subs:
M L Williams, T Rowlands, J
Johnson.
Attendance:
142
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Report by Dave Sargent |
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