GREATYARMOUTHFC.CO.UK

Wednesday 4th November 2009

Bloaters U18 1, Gorleston U18 1

A late goal for the Bloaters followed by a very late score for the Greens left this particular derby game unresolved.

A scrappy first half failed to produce much excitement though Joachim Sisse on the Yarmouth left tried his hardest to get the game going. After a typical piece of magic play by him in the 13^th minute a corner was won from which Jordan Hogmold fisted the ball away, and a second corner soon after saw Simeon Lee put a free header over the Gorleston bar. Then from a 17^th minute Yarmouth corner, Sisse put the ball against a post. 

Yarmouth captain Lee Roscoe took a great free kick after 33 minutes, only to see Hogmold produce a brilliant save to push the ball over the top. Minutes later, Hogmold was at it again, turning a swerving shot from Sisse over the bar once more, and half time came with no score. 

Early in the second half a Lee blockbuster free kick was beaten out and Roscoe’s follow-up went over. The move of the game came on 65 minutes: Sisse, on another run down the left, slipped past full-back Laurence Taylor and sent a cross into the box where Adam Blanch eventually slid the ball agonisingly past the far post. The Bloaters’ game had opened up since half time with Sisse on the left and Blanch on the right but they could not find the final ball to beat Gorleston. 

It took a free kick to break the deadlock when Roscoe struck from a central position some twenty yards out with seven minutes remaining on the clock. Gorleston hit back and had a shot go over before the equaliser came in added time. Again, it was a free kick that was instrumental, this time on the left, and when the Yarmouth defence failed to clear Matthew Wright hit home the loose ball with a fearsome shot. Honours even. 

Yarmouth – J Sharpe, D Harvey, E Short, S Pullin, S Lee, J Maitland, L Roscoe (c), R Catchpole, J Trett, A Blanch, J Sisse. Subs: K Howe, D Burgess, K Bartley, C Bird n/u.

Gorleston – J Hogmold, L Taylor, A Leggett, C Burnett, L Popham (c), M Wright, O Smith, N Walton, K Harvey-Harris, T Collier, J Woolston. Subs: K Ingram, S Hodges, S Ingram, D Pretlove n/u, J Parker n/u.

Attendance - 77