TYSOE UNITED 3-5 MEADOW PARK: THE INDEPENDENT, HONEST, LIGHTHEARTED MATCH REPORT...

 Meadow Park: 5 Set-pieces, 5 Headers, 5 Goals…

Tysoe United 3-5 Meadow Park

The Mowdog’s thoughts…

So, there were five goals before half-time for the visitors, all scored from set-pieces, all were headers and none of them was converted by a Meadow Green forward…

Left-back Jake Eversham netted a brace, defenders Bailey Eades and skipper Sam Horton both notched a goal, as did the soaring salmon of a midfielder Nathan Benson. Tysoe were totally undone by the deliveries made by the very effective Park playmaker Brandon Aston and the very busy right-back Lewis Burford and all of the strikes were from close in, not a statistic that Tysoe would be proud of.

EVEN A TREE ATTEMPTS TO SCORE FROM A MEADOW PARK SET-PIECE...

Much changed, missing starters through injury and unavailability and a member of the coaching team keeping goal, clearly Park were going to need a strong start and they were awarded several early corners in particular. The home defence was all at sea trying to defend the jumpers but they survived for a short while until Eades bulldozed goal one.

THE TOSS...

Certainly home forward Tom Gardner did his best on the break for the hosts, having a low shot shovelled aside by the sprawling Park goalie Lloyd Burford, shooting too high and also wide of a post. His goal, to make the score 1-3 was a strange one, shooting from inside-right and well out but his rather skewed effort back across himself, rolled agonisingly towards the left post, then inside it, as the Park defence and Lloyd Burford watched it like it was a hedgehog traversing the garden.

1-3...

He scored again to make it 2-5 after the break, when Park had made substitutions, stealing the ball off Horton and firing an angled drive from the right high into the net. A third Tysoe goal came straight away and it was a free-kick shot from way downtown by Jordan Gill, whose shot skimmed the heads in the Park wall and dropped to skid beneath Lloyd Burford’s plunge.  

2-5...

3-5...

However, after commanding the first period 1-5, then making a meal of the second-half, the visitors managed to shut up shop and survive no further mishaps to claim the victory and keep their title hopes aflame.

THE STRIKER IS A THIRD OF THE AGE OF THE GOALIE...

Those five headers…

0-1:

Aston’s left-wing corner and home defender and skipper Chris Welsby was beaten to the ball from close in by Eades who powered in a header as he charged in like a bearded bull.

0-2:

Lewis Burford’s right-flank corner drifted to the far stick where Eversham read the flight best of all and nudged it over the goal-line with his forehead, as others hesitated.

0-3:

Aston’s left-side flag-kick saw Benson rise and soar like a basketball power forward and dunk the ball downwards into the net but with his head…

1-4:

Lewis Burford’s right-side corner was met smartly and unchallenged at the near edge of the 6 yard line by Eversham and he glanced a neat header into the far left side of the net.

1-5:

Aston’s left-flank flag-kick was bludgeoned in from a yard by the jumping Horton who appeared to appreciate his own work…

More Tysoe attacking…

In truth there wasn’t much of it… However, after the interval, Gill shot straight at Lloyd Burford, Sam Jones sliced an effort wide of the left stick and Lloyd Burford got down to his right to push aside a decent 18 yard drive by Gill.

Meadow Park’s offense…

Home goalie Matt Chick beat away one Aston centre and tipped away another, whilst rusher Sam Green-Jeffries drove too high and hard-working forward Dan Everton beat Chick but saw the ball bounce off home defender Sam Truman’s heel, thus preventing Jon Troth from converting the rebound. Another Benson header was glanced wide from a fine Lewis Burford free-kick, too…

POWELL HAS JUST NOTICED LEWIS BURFORD'S NEW HAIRCUT FOR THE CAMERA...

Horton had also seen a far post header deflected from the goal-line by goalie Chick’s boots…

After half-time, Connor Powell shot low past the left post twice and once past the right vertical, Ryan Timmins shot straight at Chick, Green-Jeffries again shot too high and Mackenzie Wright sliced a shot off target.

GREEN-JEFFRIES: TWO SHOTS TOO HIGH...

The best chances again fell to the Park central defenders however, for Horton drove two free-kicks from way downtown just off target, Eades looked certain to score but Truman poked the ball off his boot 3 yards out, before both defenders were denied by the presence of Truman and Welsby, whose defending was desperate from another Aston corner.

HORTON FOLLOWS THE ROUTE OF A GLIDER...

A late Kingsley corner was defended by Tysoe but really, the second period was disjointed, broken up by substitutions and too often was untidy, no doubt due to the dry, uneven surface. It was interesting that Benson, usually dominating in midfield, was in and out of the action, whilst the five Park goals were all from set-piece deliveries, not from creative play.

Two strange goals by Gardner and a free-kick by Gill were the other three strikes, so none of them really came from open passing play…

TROTH SWALLOWS GREEN-JEFFRIES' HAND...

The final words…

Tysoe’s young team battled manfully but those first period headers subsequently won the points for the desperate Meadow Park outfit and so their season bounces on…

"THANKS FOR NOTICING MY HAIRCUT. HAVE TO LOOK MY BEST ON MOWDOG TV..."

TEAMS:

TYSOE UNITED:

MATT CHICK, JACK ADAMS, LEWIS FULLER, ROB SLADE, SAM TRUMAN, CHRIS WELSBY (CAPT), JORDAN GILL, SEAN ADKINS, OLI RICKARDS, TOM GARDNER, SAM JONES.

SUBS:

JORDAN ROOKE, ALLAN JONES, JAMES MELIA, JORDAN LEAVER.

MEADOW PARK:

LLOYD BURFORD, LEWIS BURFORD, JAKE EVERSHAM, SAM HORTON (CAPT), BAILEY EADES, SAM GREEN-JEFFRIES, RYAN TIMMINS, BRANDON ASTON, DAN EVERTON, JON TROTH, NATHAN BENSON.

SUBS:

JACK SUTCLIFFE, OMAR SALIH, CONNOR POWELL, MACKENZIE WRIGHT, KINGSLEE WRIGHT.