Posted by Padz on February 24, 2008, 5:16 pm, in reply to "City 1-1 Paulton Rovers: A View From The Terraces"
I know we said it when we went to Newport and ended up only drawing 1-1, but we really need to win and win well against them on Tuesday, If we don't win then we really shouldn't be challenging for the title
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: Both sides went into this match on the back of
: a defeat by Farnborough and were looking for
: points to get their promotion-push back on
: track.
: City were the quicker into attack on an
: unusually dry and sandy pitch for this time
: of the year that made control difficult for
: much of the afternoon, and the combination
: of Errol Tellemaque and home-debutant
: Michael Lyon looked very lively. Tellemaque
: hooked a cross from Mark Bell wide of the
: mark early on before Lyon shot past the post
: after linking well with Tellemaque.
: Dan Cleverley chanced his luck from
: distance, but didn’t test Steve Smith; and
: Rob Claridge broke through but was pulled up
: by an off-side flag, before Lyon sidefooted
: a pass from Tellemaque just wide of the post
: with keeper Dave Dyson beaten.
: On seventeen minutes an on-target shot from
: Tellemaque was pushed behind for the first
: corner of the afternoon and a good delivery
: from Bell produced a brief period of
: head-tennis before a looping header from
: Darren Pond cleared Dyson and dropped into
: the net via the post. Vehement protests for
: offside against Pond were waved away by Mr
: Shilston and City had their noses in front.
: City continued to press strongly. Lyon was
: just offside when chasing a
: defence-splitting pass from George Redknap;
: Lyon picked out Tellemaque at the far post
: with a fine long pass which Dyson did well
: to claim as the City striker tried to bring
: the ball under control; and Tellemaque had
: the ball in the net from a position that
: looked less offside than Pond’s, but which
: drew a flag.
: At the clubhouse end Ricky Hulbert’s pass to
: Pete Shepherd, ominously unmarked near goal,
: lacked accuracy and was well dealt with by
: Mark Avery, and Andy Gunn did well to react
: sharply and clear the danger when Paulton’s
: first corner of the game around the
: half-hour mark bobbled invitingly around the
: penalty-box. Claridge was again foiled by
: the assistant’s flag as he broke clear, and
: Hulbert’s curling shot from the edge of the
: box was not too wide of the mark.
: As the half slipped towards the break some
: of the play had become a little more
: ‘physical’. Tellemaque was on the receiving
: end of two back-to-back overzealous tackles,
: the second, from Peckham, after the whistle
: for a free-kick to City had already sounded,
: and his retaliation, when an unnecessary
: number of players from both sides promptly
: became involved, drew a red-card from the
: referee after lengthy discussions with both
: his assistants. Mark Bell put the resultant
: free-kick just over the bar.
:
: HALF-TIME : City 1-0 Paulton
:
: Hulbert went close with a low shot as the
: second half got under way while good skills
: allowed Liam Malone to create a shooting
: opportunity for himself but his left-footed
: strike faded past the far post.
: Hulbert drew a good save from Smith and then
: headed wide from a corner minutes later.
: 15 minutes into the half and the visitors
: built an attack on the City right and as
: pressure grew in the City box Marshall went
: down under a tackle from James Saulsbury and
: Mr Shilston had little hesitation in
: pointing to the spot for a fairly clear-cut
: penalty. Cue further extended disagreement
: between players of both sides, culminating
: in the dismissal of Hulbert, presumably for
: dissent. After all the fuss had subsided
: Claridge fired home an almost inch-perfect
: penalty past Smith’s right hand, and as the
: half developed further both sides had
: chances to grab all three points.
: A tantalising free-kick by Ben Cleverley
: gave Claridge a chance for a header on goal,
: but Smith held it cleanly, and Leon
: Woodruffe, on for Steve Davis, produced a
: great saving tackle as Sheppard bore down on
: goal. A few minutes later and Woodruffe
: almost became the hero at the other end as
: he cut in from the left and produced a
: stinging shot that Dyson did well to push
: away as it almost beat him at the near post.
: With time running out Pond broke through the
: back-four but fired over; Steve Smith got
: his fingertips to a tremendous header from
: Sheppard to keep City in the game, and then
: was quick off his line to cut out a probing
: cross from Danny Boys.
: As the game crept into injury time City went
: closest to making the decisive breakthrough.
: Mark Jones found Lyon in the penalty area
: and he turned in the tightest of spaces to
: crack a great shot against the base of
: Dyson’s right-hand post, and a minute later
: Yashwa Romeo, from a very similar position,
: curled his shot just beyond the same post.
:
: FULL-TIME : Oxford City 1-1 Paulton Rovers
:
: City : Smith, Saulsbury, Davis (
: Woodruffe 81 ), Gunn, Pond, Avery,
: Tellemaque, Redknap ( Jones 85 ), Lyon, Bell
: ( Romeo 70 ).
:
: Rovers : Dyson, Marshall, Boys, Hulbert,
: Peckham, Cousins, Cleverley B, Harrington (
: Jefferies 57 ), Claridge, Cleverley D.,
: Sheppard.
:
: Rather a bad-tempered match at times, but it
: saw City take a point whilst Fleet and
: Farnborough took none. The home side
: probably had the better chances to take all
: the points, but were always going to find it
: hard with only ten men for half the match.
: City now face Newport (IOW) on Tuesday
: evening. The visitors will be in optimistic
: mood having gained their first home win on
: Saturday - 1-0 against Winchester whom we
: travel to play next Saturday.
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