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Youth League (Central) Division |
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| Thursday 06 September 2007 |
| Diss Town 3 Woodbridge Town 2 |
| A totally inept performance, littered with yet more defensive flaws resulted in Woodbridge losing their 2nd successive league game (more than they lost throughout the whole of 2006-07 season) at the hands of Diss Town. |
| Throughout the defeat to Stowmarket the previous week, Woodbridge passed the ball at a quick tempo & constantly caused their defence problems. Unfortunately, the quality of our passing & ‘pedestrian’ movement never allowed us to build up any sort of pressure & Danny Tatum’s snapshot was our only worthwhile effort at goal in the opening 40 minutes, although several dubious offside decisions didn’t help our cause! |
| Meanwhile, at the other end, the lone Diss striker was constantly causing Woodbridge’s 3 centre halves problems & it was a combination of poor finishing & Lewis Rhodes in the Woodbridge goal that kept the home team at bay until the 37th minute! |
| When Diss eventually took the lead, it was courtesy of a fantastic 1st time volley following a 40 yard cross-field pass. However two minutes later it was scandalous defending that gifted the Diss scorer the freedom of our half & time to pick his spot & double the lead. |
| We were given a fortunate way back into the game when Jack Severy’s cross was deflected into his own net by a Diss defender & within a minute Josh Mayhew had a chance to level the score but his 1st touch left too tight an angle! |
| Fortunate to only be 2-1 behind at the break, Woodbridge were little better in the opening stages of the 2nd half & enjoyed several ‘escapes’ around their own goal. A triple substitution finally saw the visitors find some sustained pressure & quality football, led by substitutes Luke Read & James Wright. |
| Indeed, it was Read who grabbed an equalizer, placing in his shot after good build-up play involving Wright, Adam Webster, Mayhew & Mo
Rahman. |
| Despite this new lease of life, there were still too many errors from our defence & having escaped when Diss had a ‘goal’ suspiciously ruled out for offside, the lessons were not heeded & Ted Nichols’ rash decision to tackle resulted in a foul & a 84th minute penalty, which Rhodes got a hand to but couldn’t keep out. |
| Rhodes made a great save moments later to keep us within touching distance & was nearly rewarded when firstly Webster & then Carl Widdowson went narrowly wide with late chances. |
| Over the 90 minutes Woodbridge players could have no arguments about this latest defeat & cannot argue about the league table either, which shows them sitting at the bottom with 0 points from 2 games & a worrying 8 goals conceded, which would have been more but for Lewis Rhodes! |
| Team: Rhodes, Lewis (Rahman 60), Kempson, Widdowson, Nichols, Marsh, Rea (Wright 60), Webster, Mayhew, Tatum & Severy (Read 60) |
| It’s a trip to Thetford on Monday evening when we look to record our first points of the season & even more importantly, give a performance that befits the club? |
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