Essex Olympian Premier Division, Saturday 18th October
I was over at Cupid's just outside Great Wakering for an Essex Olympian Premier division tussle between Wakering Sports & Corinthians, the hosts was coming into this one of the back of a decent 3-1 home win over Bishop's Stortford Swifts, the visitors had netted victory at Barleylands against Hashtag United A last weekend.
That win for the visitors by a score line of 3-2 saw them net a seventh straight win in the division to keep them in second spot behind leaders Catholic United, this after starting the season with one draw and two losses, one of those at home to the leaders, but they have found their feet for sure in the top division but knew they would be in for a very tough physical battle against a Wakering Sports side who were in sixth spot and nine points of todays opponents after a rather inconsistent few weeks.
The hosts then were looking to record back to back home wins and get them closer to the top five, Corinthians themselves were looking to keep tabs on the leaders and make it eight straight wins in the process, the early signs in this contest though seem to favour the former as the home side flew out of the blocks and created several decent openings in the opening exchanges, however they were unable to take any of the chances, which included visiting keeper Oscar Baines making a couple of decent saves.
But, on the half hour mark, Sports were finally able to break through, a wonderful ball into the box saw a defender try and flick clear, but all he did was flick it into the path of the hosts who applied a lovely header which looped into the far corner of the net, and hand the hosts a more than deserved lead in this contest, and to be honest it could easily have been two soon after had Baines not saved a one on one situation, and with half time looming, the only real positive for the visitors was that it was still only 1-0.
Their only chance was a good one up till then, when a bouncing cross was somehow headed over, but in the 43rd minute with their second chance of the game, they levelled, when messy defending allowed the ball to fall to the in form Callum King who made no mistake by slotting home and sending his side into the break all square, leaving their opponents scratching their heads and wondering how they were not out of sight and only level.
They were to be scratching their heads even more ten minutes into the second period too when they fell behind, and it was another goal that they could have prevented, they failed to to clear their lines and allowed the visitors to get the ball across the box into the path of skipper and centre half Jamie Skinner who thumped a right footed effort through a crowded penalty area and beyond the hosts keeper who only saw it late and could not react.
The hosts now had to find something once again and try and get back to how they had been playing prior to this Corinthians fightback, but they now found a visiting backline who were dealing with whatever the hosts could throw at them much much better than they had been doing in those early first half moments, and the visitors were playing a whole lot better than they had been doing and were causing the visitors a lot more problems at the other too.
As the game ticked on though the hosts did their upmost to try and find a leveller, there was no doubt they deserved something from this game, especially after dominating most of the first period, but you don't always get what you deserve and ultimately they were unable to break down a stubborn and tough visiting back line, and the visitors could celebrate a very good win and prove to themselves that they can roll up their sleeves and ride out the storm they had to endure today and then go on and win.
It's eight wins in a row now for the visitors, they are just finding ways to win right now, for Sports, they will wonder how they lost this game, well the reason sadly is not taking their chances in the first period and then conceding two soft goals, this must be a frustration for them although they can also take a lot of positives from this contest too, despite the defeat.
Full time Wakering Sports 1 Corinthians 2
Shall we take a look at what else went on in the division today, and how it affects the table:-
Bishop's Stortford Swifts 1-6 Old Southendian
Catholic United 4-1 Barnston
Harold Hill 1-2 Hashtag United A
Harold Wood Athletic 1-1 Runwell Sports
Herongate Athletic 0-3 Shenfield AFC
Old Chelmsfordians 1-0 Leigh Ramblers
Sungate 2-1 ACD United
Old Southendian got themselves back on track and are up to sixth after they thumped six past Bishop's Stortford Swifts away from home, Swifts had won three of their four outings at home but were well beaten here, and they drop three places as a result, leaders Catholic recorded another win to maintain their five point lead at the top of the standings against a Barnston side who drop to third bottom as a result.
Hashtag United A won the battle of the bottom two at Henderson's against winless Harold Hill, it's a result that takes them up three places in the process and leaves Hill rock bottom with no wins in eleven games now, Harold Wood and Runwell shared the spoils at The Rec which sees Wood up two spots to tenth and Runwell remain in fifth.
Shenfield continued their brilliant season with another win, this time at Herongate which sees AFC in third and right on the coat tails of the top two still, whilst Herongate drop a place to ninth as a result, and last years champions Old Chelmsfordians netted a narrow home win over Leigh Rams, that's four successive defeats now for the visitors, it leaves the hosts fourth still whilst for Rams they drop two places to 11th now.
And finally Sungate's recent revival continued after they made it four wins from five games to lift themselves further up the table to eighth spot after they netted a narrow home win over ACD United who themselves drop a place to second bottom.
That's all for this blog, it's been another enjoyable Saturday afternoon, hope you enjoy reading and many thanks for taking the time too, always appreciated!!! Thank you.....
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