SECOND HALF BLITZ EARNS YELLOWS THE POINTS

UCL DIV 1 SAT 6TH AUGUST 2022 3 PM KO

HUCK NALL TOWN 4 ST ANDREWS 0

MATCH REPORT 

TEAMS:

Hucknall Town : 1 Louis Kinnerley, 2 Jamie Crawford 3 Kieran Lane 4 Sam Sims 5 Aaron Short (capt) 6 Billy Brooks 7 Aaron Lamb 8 Joey Ashurst 9 Craig Westcarr 10 Kieran Knight 11 Morgan Bell

Subs: Jake Pearson (GK) Montell Gatland Josh Henry 

St Andrews: 1 Dean Adams 2 Liam Bloxham 3 Matt Brown 4 Jermaine Corbin 5 George Creasey 6 Kaide Gibson 7 Kofi Gonsalves 8 Ben Law 9 Luke Pickering 10 Demitrios Retsis 11 Kaden Stokes

Subs: Jack Toon Jake Warren Connor Stevens Pharrell March

Officials: Max Winter Lee Harrison David Henfry

Attendance 160

Hucknall had a lot of players missing for various reasons yesterday and the subs bench had two notable, but welcome surprizes in the form of Montell Gatland and Josh Henry

Hucknall began slowly maybe due to the rock-hard surface which caused unpredictable bounce but still had the first chance when Knights volley end up in the Salterford Road gardens. Sam sims had a repeat effort end up in the same place.

Louis Kinnerley was then called into action tipping over Laws free kick which proved to be his only real save of the game.

Hucknall were forced into an early change on 21 mins as Josh Henry replaced the injured Jamie Crawford.

As the half wore on Hucknall began to take control with Shorts header blocked by keeper Adams who then saved Westcarr's shot. Joe Ashurst directed his header straight at Adams as the half closed.

Whatever was said at half time in the home dressing room certainly had its desired effect as Hucknall started at a higher tempo which almost acheived immediate reward when Westcarr was through on goal. Adams spread himself well and made a good save. 

Two minutes later Westcarr did open the scoring following a nice move. Morgan Bell who had impressed all game was involved receiving the ball off westcarr, holding it up well before returning the ball for the striker to sibefoot home from 8 yards.

Any chance that the visitors would respond was cut short as Hucknall added further goals in the next 5 minutes. Bell got himself on the score sheet finishing from close range and then Kieran Knight got the first of his 2 crackers. This one being ferocious volley from the edge of the box giving adams no chance. 

The visitors had no answers and Ashurst nearly added a fourth but his shot came back off the bar.

Knight also had a goal chalked off for offside but did make it 4 with another great finish from the angle that hit the net so fast a lot of the fans behind the goal thought it had hit the side netting. It really was a stunning effort.

Montell Gatland replaced Sam Sims on 71 mins.

A great second half from the Yellows earned them the points and they will be looking to carry this into Wednesday nights league game at home to one of our bogey sides Dunkirk.