Youth CUp - HFC 0 Romford 2 - stats and line up

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Thursday 13th September 2007 – FA Youth Cup

 

HORNCHURCH 0 ROMFORD 2

 

HFC – Elliot Justham – Spencer Harrison – Steven Green – Max Holt – Chris Collins – Michael Ramkin – Joseph Staunton - Alex Ievoli – Charanjit Sandhu – Perry Burns – Tony Fraser

Subs – Alex Harris for Sandhu 70 – Jake Freeman – Charlie Clark for Ramkin 80 – Tom Brookes – Adam Summers

 

RFC – Danny Mulrooney – Adam Major – Ben Protheroe – Darren Gildersleeve – Dele Akinyeme – Jack Forrester – George Tubey – Dean Francis – David Smith – Billy Fairbanks

Subs – Sonny Read for Tubey 90+1 – Elliot Corton – Louis Peterrin – Ben Stanton – Billy Gray

Another sub – number 16 – this number was not listed on the team sheet, came on for Romford at 90+7.

 

Scorers – David Smith 31, 61

 

Attendance 231

Weather – 13 degrees, cloudy, wind speed 5 mph

Officials – MK Simmons – linesmen not named.

Bookings – Smith 61 ® – Tubey 84 ® – Clark 84 (H)

Duration – 46.10 + 52.31

 

A crowd of 231 was left in suspense until shortly before the kick off as the visitors left the naming of their team very late. Confusion at the start, as the teams lined up the wrong way, the referee then making them change ends, with Hornchurch kicking towards the windmill end of the ground. The visitors almost took the lead in the second minute, Smith neatly flicking on a right wing cross, the ball skimming past the post. Hornchurch came back strongly, Holt’s corner from the left being headed powerfully by Ramkin, forcing keeper Mulrooney into a diving save, to turn the ball out for another corner. Mulrooney followed up with another excellent save, this time diving to deflect Burn’s hard shot from the edge of the area, and it was Mulrooney again, turning Sandhu’s goalbound shot around the post. A long run by Fraser took him over half the length of the pitch, only for the keeper to make his fourth excellent save of the night, and then the visitors took the lead when DAVID SMITH broke through the centre and hammered the ball home.

 

One nil down at the interval, despite having the most of the play, the second half was much the same, with Hornchurch repeatedly coming forward, but rarely getting close to goal, with most balls either being overhit or else dealt with by Gildersleeve who was dominant in defence. The visitors went further ahead when DAVID SMITH once again broke clear, raced through the middle, and hit home an excellent shot, and was promptly booked for an over celebrating, although the same could have been said of most of the away team. For the remainder of the match it was long ball after long ball, usually wasted, and the closest Hornchurch came to scoring was when Staunton’s shot cannoned back off the bar. Two shots from Fraser went close, but in a second half punctuated by long stoppages, Hornchurch did not look like pulling the gap back, with the Romford defence able to deal adequately with the home attacks. The match almost got out of hand in the 84th minute when, following a midfield collision, Clark was the victim of a mass onslaught of seven Romford players, backpeddling over 30 yards as he was forced backwards by a mass of blue and yellow, with the referee blowing incessantly on his whistle, to little avail. The referee, who up until then had dished out a series of lectures, booked Clark, and the wrong Romford player when he eventually restored order. Only eight minutes were added on for stoppages, when it should have been considerably longer, but Romford deserved their win, making the most of their chances and defending solidly in the second half.