 07/10/2007, 9:20 PM
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The Yellow Scribe
Joined on 30/09/2007
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Letchworth Yellows u12 7 v Nascot Wood Rangers u 12 0
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Herts County Cup Round 1
A simple enough victory with the Yellows denied a much bigger win by a very brave Nascot goalkeeper, helped by several players shooting right at him, rather than take advantage of the full size goal.
Nascot should also be praised for trying to play a good passing game for the whole match, and they continued in this vain right to the final whistle, denied several scoring opportunities by Sam Luck’s excellent keeping, and some lovely, intelligent defending from Michael Bentley and Ryan Gillham.
The first goal took a while to come, with one particularly good left foot cross from Caspar Courlander finding Chris Moore to volley just over. But after eleven minutes, the reward for some good passing play came, with Moore placing a lovely shot past the keeper from the edge of the area. Four minutes later, Courlander broke free down the left, took it to the edge of the area and hit a fierce shot, which was parried away by the keeper, only for Courlander to shoot back across the keeper with his left.
2-0.
The third goal came from a lovely pass from midfield over the Nascot defence with Courlander taking it on his left and volleying over the keeper. And with a few minutes left of the half, Fenton Hancock finally had the confidence to attack a defence, and his speed and control started to create Nascot all sorts of problems.
The second half became a personal battle by Lucas Campbell-Gump to get his first goal for the Yellows. Several times, he was through on goal only to be denied by the keeper, but he never gave up, although when Jordan Leech-Levy broke free from a lovely Hancock run and pass to score the fourth, I did wonder whether he might have to wait another week or so for his goal. But finally it came with a Courlander header finding Campbell-Gump inside the area and through on goal, which he finished off with a lovely shot into the Nascot net. I’ve never seen a team celebrate a goal with such enthusiasm, but it says a lot for Campbell-Gump’s attitude and the teams spirit that they celebrated as they did.
And before you could blink, Hancock had made another great on the right and Lucas had another goal to celebrate. Leading into the final minutes of the game, Fenton completely bamboozled the Nascot defence with his flight of foot. He deserved a goal for his efforts today, but he was the making of so much down the right that he can be very proud of his efforts today. Hopefully today will kick start his season.
Both Campbell-Gump and Courlander had chances for their hat tricks, but it was Josh Valpy-Nelson who finished off the game with a fine individual effort to make the final score 7-0.
Man of the Match – Lucas Campbell-Gump – fantastic attitude when it didn’t work out, and the biggest smile seen on the pitch this year when it did.
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