[2nd May] Home vs Sacred Heart

Scotch B's 1 - 3 Sacred Heart B's Goal(s): Fernie A fantastic day for soccer greeted us for our first home game of the season that saw us taking on long-time rivals Sacred Heart. Al returned to the starting line-up and Niall took his place in goal. The first half was a pretty even affair, with an unfortunate own goal by Will and a great header giving Sacred Heart a 2-0 advantage heading into the break. The second half continued in much the same vane with Scotch having the better half. Sacred Heart grabbed another and a nice finish by Fernie saw Scotch pull one back, albeit after a ridiculous call by the linesman which the ref thankfully overruled. For the remainder of the match, we were on top and unlucky not to score at least one more. It was good to see Chan out for his first game of the season and also to see Al make it through a whole game without injury! A much improved performance boys, let’s get a win against Immanuel next week! Best: 3 Mike, 2 Will, 1 Harry Scotch A's 3 - 4 Sacred Heart A's Goal(s): Timmy, Chris, Linagh Injuries and absences once again saw a weakened starting eleven taking on Sacred Heart A’s. Quinny gallantly agreed to start, and Haydos started on the bench despite still both being injured. This was made even worse with QC pulling out at the last minuted with a hamstring strain. With Ferg and Rooney both out, the captaincy fell to our defensive rock Dunsy. The game couldn’t have started better for the Scotchies, with a floated free kick by Erik falling to Timmy at the back post. Timmy proceeded to ram it in past the hapless keeper at the near post. Sacred Heart then equalised and Dan pulled up injured soon after. Going into the break we were on top and unlucky not to score again. What momentum we had was negated in the second half as Sacred Heart came out firing and scored two early goals. Following the restarting kickoff, Chris intercepted a defensive pass and managed to score at the far post. The game continued fairly evenly until Dunsy was called for a handball, even though the player challenging him for the ball was offside. Sacred Heart scored from the resulting free-kick and restored their two goal margin 2 - 4. We then picked up the intensity and our pressure was rewarded by a cracking long range effort by Matty L flew past their bewildered keeper. Despite several more good chances, we were unable to capitalise, ending in another disappointing loss that could easily have gone either way. Best: 3 Matty L, 2 Chris, 1 Pandy