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Woodbridge Town 1 Needham Market 3 |
| Tuesday 29th September 2009 |
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Three of four second half goals
settled this League Cup tie in Needham Market's
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Both teams had made changes to
their line up's, the visitors resting several
who had made the trip to Sutton Coldfield last
Saturday whilst Woodbridge had to balance the
chance of progression in this competition with
that in the FA Vase on Saturday with a number of
players, in particular defenders, nursing knocks
and injuries.
Woodbridge started very brightly and created
four good chances in the first five minutes, Jay
Churchyard forcing his way into the Needham
penalty area but firing his shot straight into
the arms of Liam Jones who then denied Ben
Goddard after Aaron Churchyard had penetrated
the Needham midfield. Tom Trevivian set up a
chance for Chris Lay whose shot was blocked at
the expense of a corner and a second Ben Seaman
resulted in Lay heading over.
Woodbridge suffered a blow after a quarter of an
hour, Jay Churchyard sustaining a nasty ankle
injury to be replaced by Liam Scopes, himself
having barely recovered from the same handicap.
Lay again headed over from a corner and Jones
again denied Goddard before Needham twice came
close, Tommy Smith forcing a one handed save
from Adam Wilson and on the stroke of half time
Smith crossed and Matt Buckle's free header
bounced down in front of Wilson and flew inches
over the crossbar.
In the second half James Evans delivered a
superb cross field pass to Darren Bethell who
forced a good stop from Wilson before Evans
opened the scoring for the visitors on 53
minutes, reaching a Woodbridge back pass before
the advancing keeper Wilson. Woodbridge were
back in the game with 15 minutes remaining, Tom
Trevivian having been fouled by Tom Agricole
dispatched his third penalty kick of the season
and a couple of minutes later occurred an
incident that appeared to change the course of a
very even contest. Needham appealed for a
penalty kick after Buckle went to ground in the
Woodbridge box but Buckle was instead dismissed
incurring a second yellow of the game for
simulation. Needham's substitutes then tipped
the score line back in their favour, Craig
Parker bringing a good save from Wilson which
was duly dispatched by Danny Smy and with two
minutes remaining Evans sent the unmarked
Bethell through to place through the advancing
Wilson's legs for the winner.
Woodbridge Team: Adam Wilson, Sean Rea, Robbie
Smythe, Tom Trevivian, Craig Stuart, Aaron
Churchyard, Marcus Josiah, Jay Churchyard (Liam
Scopes 15), Ben Goddard, Chris Lay, Ben Seaman.
Referee: Mr Carl Fitch
Attendance 161 |
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