Posted by Nigel Porter on November 11, 2007, 9:01 am, in reply to "Re: Oxon. Int. Cup"
Excellent performance from the Nomads they were always in control of the game bring on the next round !
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: good to see some of the injured players
: playing again ...
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: ...and Newtown (Henley) (who play in the
: Premier Division - which is below the Senior
: Division! - of the Reading League) won 1-0
: at Clanfield.
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: After 75 days on the road the Nomads finally
: returned home and tied the horses to the
: rails before taking on North Leigh Reserves
: in the Intermediate Cup at the early hour of
: 2.00 p.m. (the reason for the meagre
: turnout?). With four away on County duty
: and other calls from an injury-hit 1st XI
: there were several new faces in the side
: facing their equally young-looking
: opponents.
: The visitors pressed at the start but the
: greater experience in the City side soon
: began to tell and Ian Roper put them ahead
: on 6 minutes with a strike that took a
: slight deflection before evading the North
: Leigh keeper.
: City had most of the match in the next 20
: minutes or so and looked to be about to go
: further ahead on three or four occasions but
: the final touches just eluded them. The
: visitors came close with two corners, and a
: shot a foot the wrong side of the post just
: before a break from Ben Moses was brought
: to an abrupt halt on the edge of the North
: Leigh area and he picked out the top corner
: with his free-kick to double the lead on 30
: minutes.
: With a gusty wind the high balls played
: upfield by both sides were causing few
: difficulties and it was when City kept the
: ball on the ground they looked at their most
: dangerous. A great through-ball from Jack
: Griffiths almost released Roper on 35
: minutes but a good covering tackle stopped
: his run before, three minutes later, a deep
: corner from Lee Rendell found Griffiths
: beyond the far post and his low cross into
: the six-yard box was neatly flicked home by
: Roper with his back to the goal.
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: The second half very much followed the
: pattern of the first with the home side
: having the majority of the play without ever
: really putting a lot of pressure on the
: North Leigh keeper.
: The fourth goal came eight minutes into the
: half after the ball had been held up well on
: the City right and Lee Rendell curled in a
: left-footed centre that evaded both Moses'
: head and the keeper's punch and dipped
: beneath the bar and into the net.
: The visitors had some concerted pressure
: over the next ten minutes and Brett Freeman
: in goal dealt well with what came his way,
: though he could only watch as the North
: Leigh No. 12 crashed one shot against the
: bar; and Ben Moses, covering a lot of ground
: all afternoon, cleared off his own line a
: few minutes later.
: City's approach work promised more to come
: but, as in the first period, solid tackling
: from the visitors and errant final balls
: left the score at 4-0 taking City Nomads
: through to play the winners of the Clanfield
: v Newtown(Henley) tie at the start of
: December.
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