An injury ravaged Stallions side hit the jackpot in 'Vegas' with a convincing 4-2 win against the league's cellar dwellers at Delaney Park.
The Stallions were without a number of key players for this fixture with first team regulars: Sawyer, White, Lister and McCleary all out with a variety of lame excuses. Aitofi and Rafa Walker were both carrying niggles, however the Stallions were able to draw on their reserve side and call up Logan Mead, Dan 'the man', and Hamish from the Cricket Stallions academy. The club's youth programme clearly bearing some fruit.
To cut a long story short (because let's face it, these reports are getting unnecessarily long) the Stallions were on top from the start and had the better of play for about 83% of the match. Mead opened the scoring in the 5th min with a 'Nanny' (you know, the Man Utd player) like chip from inside the box, wide right. Lloyd "Lamp's" Davies doubled the lead on 15mins after a mazy Mann run down the left wing. Mann beat four defenders who were blinded by his bright green boots and stood it up for Davies who timed his run perfectly and placed a shot past the keeper from the top of the box.
A goal mouth scramble and a rare defensive lapse from Aitofi gifted the home side a lifeline on 35mins, and the Stallions went to the break at 2-1. The lead should've been much more however, the Stallions wasteful infront of goal at times....unacceptable really.
Stallions piled on the pressure after the break and were rewarded in the 60th min when midfielder Panda (not his real name...) curled a low shot to the right of the keeper for another trademark goal. You just cannot keep this man out of the game!
The Stallions 4th came shortly after from a corner which the Valley keeper called for, came for, and missed completely, leaving Davies a simple nod in for his second of the game.
Stokes Valley pulled another back after a 'pull back' took a deflection and fell nicely for the striker who finished well, placing a shot through the legs of: Aitofi (not his fault), Fogarty (partly responsible), and Kilford (poor positioning.)
4-2 final score which flattered the home side somewhat. Stallions remain second on the table, still in touch with the leaders, and once again boasting the league's tightest defence.
Attendance 10 (Thanks to the Stallions "Bring yer babies day")
4 comments:
Damn, sounds like that Aitofi had a stink game! Nah, nice one again Stevie G - wish I saw that dazzling run by FluroMann!
So it sounds like a couple of contenders for the goal of the season: Logan's chip, Panda's shot, Lloyd's first?
He has the same injury that Torres had this season I believe, all the good players get it apparently...?
Panda's would be the only one worthy of contender of goal of the season. Lloyd's first was a good team goal (Rob in the middle of the park, played out wide to Graham, who ran for a bit then banged in a great cross to provide Lloyd with a comfortable finish) so that could count in that respect. Gus' goal is contentious as no one knows if it was a shot or cross. It should have been a cross, but being Gus it was probably a shot. All three are better than my chip though.
Lloyd had a miss that should be included as miss of the season. Played through into the 6 yard box, keeper advancing but managed to put it over from 5 yards.
Panda says "BRING BACK THE BUTCHER"
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