Season 07-08 : Northern Counties East League Cup Round 1 : Match Report

BOTTESFORD TOWN  4  -  2  TEVERSAL Prepared by Kevin Newton

BOTTESFORD TOWN - Slocombe, Nikolaidis, Lill, Le Rocca, Mitchell, Baross (Roach 65), Turay (Carter 65), Chatterton, Jackman, Lavin, Ainsley. Subs Not Used – Leech.

TEVERSAL - Wilson, Tighe, Naughton, Westwood (Courtie 73), Hudson, Giles, Atkins (Foster 63), Scott, Short D. (Stokes 25), Woodcock, Lyall. Subs Not Used – All Used.

REFEREE - Mr M. Walsh from Sheffield.

MAN OF MATCH - Teversal – Marc Scott, Bottesford Town – Craig Mitchell

ATTENDANCE - 37

"TEVIE OUT, BUT NOT DOWN" An excellent and entertaining game well Refereed was to be the exit out of the League Cup for Teversal. Teversal started the livelier of the two teams and could have took the lead as early as the second minutes when Woodcock latched onto Tighe’s excellent ball, but the big striker pulled his effort across goal and marginally wide of the far post. A similar move 8 minutes later saw Woodcock again put through with Short being the provider, but this time Mitchell was alert in the home defence and made a stunning block from the Tevie striker’s powerful effort. With the visitors playing an attacking game, the host certainly looked dangerous on the break and when Westwoods sliced clearance fell nicely to Baross, the wide player powerfully volleyed goalwards with Wilson in the Teversal goal equal to the effort. For the second week running, an injury to a striker disrupted the Tevie Boys, Short having to be replaced by Stokes on 25 minutes after jarring his knee in an heavy fall. Ironically only 2 minutes later Tighe found himself isolated out on the right and neat play by Nikolaidis and Larvin saw the latter with time and space to produce an inch perfect cross to Chatterton to give the Bottesford Boys a 1-0 lead against the run of play. On 28 minutes it should have been 2-0 when an identical move down the opposite flank saw Baross feed Jackman, but the striker delayed and Wilson closed to make an excellent save. But Teversal’s Custodian however made an uncharacteristic miss-kick that went straight to Jackman who fired a fierce effort back straight into the net to make it 2-0 on the half hour mark. Any hope Teversal had of getting back into the game, were realistically dispelled during first half added on time, when again Tighe was left to quell a two pronged attack down the left with Larvin pulling the ball back to Baross to place the ball neatly past the stranded Wilson to take the home side into a 3-0 half time lead. The visitor’s having had the better of the possession could have only been shell shocked from the first half experience, but credit to them for coming out in the second half and giving it a real gol to try and get back into the game. Obviously though when chasing a game that looks lost, you leave yourself exposed, but to be fair the host failed to turn the opportunities that came their way into goals. The remaining goals that did come in the final 10 minutes, after firstly Jackman went close twice on 75 minute mark, then Woodcock found Lyall in a good position but the fierce drive went marginally wide of the home goal. On 81 minutes Wilson made an excellent save to deny Chatterton, but then on the break Stokes managed to get the better of Le Rocca to fire past the stranded Slocombe to make it 3-1 and re-ignite the faltering hopes of a comeback. Chances were flowing at both ends but on 87 minutes the game was all but over when Larvin again was the provider when he cut in to lay the ball back to Jackman to fire home to make it 4-1. Kev Larvin’s performance was only bettered by Craig Mitchell’s solid display at the heart of the home defence that kept the visitors at bay. Teversal did manage to score a second and take the second half 2-1 when Michael Lyall scored his first senior goal with a well struck effort in added on time to make it 4-2.  Teversal’s next game is back to league action when they entertain Leeds Met Carnegie at Carnarvon Street with the kick off at 3.00pm..