Newbury Forest netted
five at The Terrence McMillan Stadium in Newham against Fire United to progress
into the Second Round of the Thurlow Nunn First Division KO Cup, setting up a
tie at Burroughs Park against White Ensign.
Both sides have had difficult starts to the season, the
hosts are bottom of the Eastern Senior South division having lost all four
games, whilst Forest have just a point from their six games so far, and with
both having the worst goal differences in the league you fancied goals in this
one.
Apart from a couple of wayward efforts from the hosts, the
opening fifteen minutes yielded very little in the way of goalmouth action,
before the visitors then saw a very good chance saved.
And then in the 18th minute Forest grabbed the
lead when a loose ball inside the box was poked home by Dean Nevill, and then
just two minutes later Nathaniel Cole intercepted a wayward clearance to burst
into the hosts box and fire beyond the keeper to double the visitors lead just
like that.
Just past the half hour mark Cole turned from hero to villain
for the visitors as he was sin binned for dissent, meaning ten minutes off the
field, so could the hosts capitalise on this?
Well they did go close a couple of times whilst he was off
the field, firstly seeing a corner sliced across goal by a defender, and then secondly
missing a golden chance at the back post
when it seemed easier to score.
Forest then sent a header wide at the other end before Cole
returned after his ten minutes on the side-line, and he saw the hosts have
another couple of efforts on goal but were unable to turn these into goals, and
it meant the visitors held a 2-0 lead going into the break.
Half Time Fire United
0 Newbury Forest 2
Forest quickly increased their lead after the break as in
the 49th minute a ball across to Holder saw the striker mis-kick an
effort across goal but thankfully for him and the visitors Adam Adomakoh was on
hand to slot home from the left side of the area and you felt the visitors may
go on and score a bucket-load.
Fair play to the hosts though as they and the visitors
continued to play decent attacking football, it was a pretty good watch and the
home side were giving it a good go despite the 0-3 scoreline.
The home side then saw a couple of decent effort pass them
by, before Forest then saw a chance of their own saved before the follow up
effort was blocked by a sprawling defender as the game had around twenty
minutes or so to go.
Fire then missed another brilliant chance but found visiting
keeper Bradley Simpson in the way, before the rebound was somehow blocked wide
by the visitors as they looked to earn a rare clean sheet. The visitors seemed to be going through the
motions somewhat, although with a 3-0 lead with ten remaining this could be
forgiven, but had the hosts had an end product then the scoreline could have
been different.
Forest though woke up again for the final few minutes and
netted a fourth with seven to go and it was a peach from skipper Freddie
Anderson who thumped home from thirty yards out, and then in the first minute
of stoppage time lovely attacking play from the visitors ended with Hashim
Ahmed finding the bottom corner and putting the gloss on Forest’s evening as
they progressed into the next round.
Full Time Fire United
0 Newbury Forest 5
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