Woodbridge Town Football Club
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Woodbridge Town 1 Stanway Rovers 4
Wednesday 09th December 2009
Another disastrous second half start puts Woodbridge out of the game.
Three goals in the opening twelve minutes of the second half from visitors Stanway Rovers undone a hard earned first half lead for the Woodpeckers. League top scorer Sam Newson gave an early warning of his threat heading across the Woodbridge goal whilst his striking partner and brother Ben Newson mis-hit his first time shot wide of the post. Woodbridge did put two efforts on target but the attempts by Liam Scopes and Glenn Snell both lacked sufficient power. Three dangerous inswinging Stanway corner kicks caused problems for Woodbridge, the first two going uncomfortably across the face of goal before Town keeper Lewis Rhodes got a fist on the third to clear. With 5 minutes of the half remaining Ben Goddard was foiled by Stanway keeper Michael Church who tipped his shot wide for a corner which Ben Seaman delivered for Scopes to put Town one up with a header.

With barely a minute played of the second half, Sam Newson lobbed over the advancing Rhodes to level the score and a minute later he gave the visitors the lead getting in front of Rhodes to head in from eight yards. Woodbridge had made three very speculative penalty appeals in the opening half but a more reasonable shout was denied when Goddard appeared to be pushed in the back after getting in front of his defender moments later. Stanway then again took advantage of Rhodes' appearance in 'no man's land', Liam Bailey spotted the town keeper well off his line again and scored from fully 45 yards out. On 76 minutes Newson put the result beyond any doubt completing his fourth hat trick of the season.

Woodbridge: Lewis Rhodes, Robbie Smythe, Grant Monaghan, Sean Rea (Dan Morphew 66), Chris Pratt (Ben Miller 78), Aaron Churchyard, Glenn Snell (Marcus Josiah 66) Liam Scopes, Ben Goddard, Tom Trevivian, Ben Seaman.

Referee: Tim Moffat

Attendance 85

 

 

 


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