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Boldmere St Michaels 4 – 2 Almondsbury Town Youth
8.9.07
Goal Scorers: Aiden Crowley, David Goldsmith
Man of the Match: David Goldsmith
Almondsbury started slowly in this first game of the Junior Premier
League
season, going down 2-0 within the first 10 minutes, the size and
speed of
the Boldmere strikers proving too much for Almondsbury. However,
they then regained their composure and concentration and started
to play the ball around quickly and accurately. On 16 minutes a
good Almondsbury attack was contained by Boldmere who broke quickly
and got their 3rd, again the pace of the Boldmere front men beating
the Almondsbury back 4.
Almondsbury kept going, knowing that by playing the right way they
would ultimately be rewarded. A number of chances came and went,
but they got their reward on 35 minutes when David Goldsmith bravely
headed the ball round the Boldmere goalkeeper before being wiped
out, leaving strike partner Aiden Crowley to fire into the open
net.
The second half was almost one way Almondsbury traffic but it took
until
the 54th minute for David Goldsmith to round the Boldmere keeper
to make it 3-2. Boldmere began to make mistakes under the increased
pressure and Almondsbury should have tied the game up with numerous
chances, the best a tap in from 3 yards being saved miraculously
by the Boldmere keeper.
Again the break was to undo Almondsbury; on 64 minutes a long bouncing
through ball was met by the Boldmere striker who headed over Damian
Freeman to effectively win Boldmere the game. Almondsbury upped
the
pressure but couldn’t find a break through in the final 5 minutes,
credit
goes to Boldmere who used their strengths extremely well – pace,
speed and physical power – that caused Almondsbury many problems
over the 70 minutes.
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