Lewis Soraf netted an extra time winner for ten-man Coggeshall United as the Thurlow Nunn Eastern Senior South side saw off Essex Senior League Cockfosters at Chalk Lane in their Buildbase FA Vase First Qualifying Round contest, setting up a Second Qualifying Round tie at home to Thurlow Nunn Premier Long Melford.
The visitors had the first chance of the game when a cross found Grame Montgomery who could only slice across the ball and send it out for a throw, and then another chance came for the visitors when player manager Cliff Akurang flicked a header towards goal but this was cleared off the line.
The hosts responded as Reece Mosanya burst into the box but his ball across goal was cleared away before Billy Healey burst down the right for the home side and his ball in found Luke Marshall whose goal-bound effort was blocked by a defender.
Mosanya then crossed for Healey to force a wonderful point blank save from visitor’s keeper Lewis Downes, however the ball was returned into the six-yard box where Healey headed home, but the ball had gone out of play for a corner according to the linesman so the goal was ruled out.
Montgomery then sent a low effort at the hosts goal which keeper Josh Bradley managed to help over the bar, and then Soraf sent a decent header at the Cockfosters goal but it was straight at Bradley who caught the effort.
A brilliant move by the visitors ended with Mwetsi Matangi totally missing the ball when presented with a goal scoring chance from point blank range, and then Ricky Loveridge fired just wide of the hosts goal from distance.
Akurang then saw a header strike the hand of a Cockfosters defender inside the box but the referee deemed it accidental before full back Lee Flynn sent a header at the hosts goal but Bradley got down to save, meaning the half ended goalless.
Half Time Cockfosters 0 Coggeshall United 0
Good football from the visitors saw Matangi fire over from inside the box, before Ryan Wade then fired inches wide for the hosts when in truth he should of hit the target, but the second period was devoid of much goal mouth action as the weather began to turn.
Cockfosters keeper Bradley then had to come off injured and was replaced by Adam Seymour, and in the 71st minute he was picking the ball out of his own net after a mistake from the defence allowed Loveridge in to slot home and give the underdogs the lead.
Rian Carroll then fired just wide for the hosts as they looked for a leveller, and with seven minutes remaining won a penalty kick after keeper Downes had fouled Healey inside the box, and Wade stepped up to fire home the spot-kick and Cockfosters were level.
The visitors then saw a super effort brilliantly saved by Seymour, before Marshall then broke the visitors offside trap but could only send his effort across goal and wide, and then Flynn sent a long-range effort at the hosts goal but it was punched over by Seymour.
Stoppage time then saw Coggeshall skipper Mensah sent-off for something off the ball which I didn’t see if truth be told, and then Cockfosters almost nicked it at the death but missed, meaning extra time would be needed, and the visitors would have to play it with a man light. Advantage Cockfosters you would say?
Full Time Cockfosters 1 Coggeshall United 1
Well the first chance of extra time fell to Wade who forced a save from visiting keeper Downes, but it was the visitors who were creating the openings as substitute Ben Madden volleyed wide before the same man then fired a long range effort straight at Seymour as the ten men were doing ok in the extra period.
Loveridge then sent a free header straight at Seymour in the hosts goal, before the same man then fired another effort at the hosts net. Wade had had the ball in the Coggeshall net twice in the opening period of extra time too, but both were flagged for offside, and he then sent a free-kick just wide of the visitors net as time expired in the first period of the extra half hour.
So, would we get a winner in the final fifteen minutes? Well, Wade got in for the hosts but shot straight at Downes, and then the hosts somehow failed to go in front when George Beattie got in down the right and sent a ball right across goal but Wade could not divert the effort into the net.
Montgomery then almost punished the hosts for hesitant defending when skying over from point blank range, but with six minutes of extra time remaining Coggeshall grabbed the winner when Soraf struck home from the edge of the box and saw the ten men advance through to the next round.
Full Time (after extra time) Cockfosters 1 Coggeshall United 2
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