Competition

FRIENDLY

Date

Friday 24th July 2009

A goal in the 4th minute and a late goal in the 88th minute for Wantage Town contributed to Supermarine's second friendly defeat.

Although Marine's Mark Barnes headed against the bar in the first minute from an excellent cross from Tom Bird it was Wantage who grabbed the opening goal in the 4th minute. With space on the left Richard Clayton got to the by-line and his attempted cross deceived Matt Bulman to loop over his head and into the far side of the goal.

Concerted pressure on the Wantage goal eventually brought its reward from the 25th minute with two goals in as many minutes. The equaliser came from an Alan Griffin free kick that took a slight deflection before hitting the bottom corner of the net. The second, two minutes later, came from a neat move and an exchange of passes between Alan Griffin and Mark Barnes that left the latter through on goal and he clinically finished off the move as he shot low past Simms in the Wantage goal.

With Supermarine leading 2-1 at half time both sides made changes and it was quickly evident that Wantage looked capably of providing an equaliser, which they deservedly found in the 50th minute. Sean MeKeon slipped past Matt Robinson to shoot at goal, with the quickness and pace of the shot deceiving Matt Bulman as it swerved past him into the bottom corner of the goal. At 2-2 the game could have gone either way, although there weren't to many clear cut chances both sides had opportunities but were wasteful in there final passes. That was until the final few minutes when Wantage substitute Richard Guy broke clear from Sean Wood on the left flank and coolly lobbed Matt Bulman from an acute angle, similarly to the first goal but this was effort was clearly meant, an excellent winning goal.