Post by oggy on Mar 4, 2012 20:26:33 GMT
Vets lost 4-2 at poplar rd today against Roehampton who we beat earlier in season 5-2, every week so far we have had 15 or 16 players but this week with so many unavailable we just managed to raise 13,with a lot of the old guard turning out it was allways going to be a slower pace game and thats how it turned out with ruts struggling to get flowing passing game today,Roehampton broke the deadlock when their corner was half cleared but a good first time shot from edge of area flew in off the inside of the post,Ruts started to play a little now but a reckless challange put paid to jel cappers 400th appearance early in first half to be replaced by minnihane,Kev butcher pushed forward from defence to find j.wood who crossed for gillman to control and smash home a great left foot strike to bring us level,h/t 1-1, knotty now injured was replaced by steve berry who answered a late call to turn out we were left with bare eleven fit,but no excuses for second half in which we were dreadfull gifting them two goals resulting from confusion between our defenders and keeper which were easily avoidable and to sum it up from our free kick on edge of their box shot struck their wall and quick counter attack resulting in yours truely sliding to cut out the cross to unmarked forward only managed to divert into own goal,we had managed to claw our way back to 2-3 just before that when from their corner we cleared to bezza who ran some 60-70 yds to pass to wood to score, the fact we beat them earlier in season resulted in them having a couple of young players who apparently play for merton fc one only 26 and were to quick for us at the back today but no complaints as we were not at our best today anyway.Need full strength squad next week as at home to Raynes park vale who we beat 1-0 in october in excellent game.