KFC 2-0 LA Galaxy Caramel
KFC have almost certainly sewn up the division one title and promotion following their two-nil victory over LA Galaxy Caramel last night in awful conditions.
Heavy rain didn't dampen the champions-elect spirit however and they burst out of the traps determined to gain both points. Abdul (pictured) was the key-man as he tore the Caramel defence apart time and time again, it was only thanks to veteran 'keeper, player/manager, physio, club secretary, treasurer and media-spokesman Phil Davis that the half ended 0-0. The little, brummie stopper made some excellent saves (even if he doesn't mind saying so himself) to frustrate the turkish looking side.
Davis was busy 'between-the-sticks' but his biggest headache of the night was selection, as he had a squad of eleven and only allowed to use three subs in addition to the starting six, team-captain Summerfield had to help out with the difficult decision of omitting Bhavesh Patel and Simon Hartland from the squad. Patel sensationally stormed off (walked away) having reputidly been fuming with the decision (it was raining so he went home) having verbally abused his manager: "He just said he couldn't be bothered hanging around, there's no hard-feeling-it was awful weather and he went."
At nil-nil LA Galaxy Caramel were hanging on until just after the break when they were able to staedy the ship, made a couple of substitutions and knocked the ball around nicely and kept posession well, Dave Sorensen almost gave the caramel an unlikely lead when he found himself in one-on-one with Rustu but the 'keeper blocked the effort. From the following corner Nihat almost put through his own goal but the ball came, agonisingly, back off the crossbar.
That seemed to be the turning point for KFC who counter-attacked and should have scored when Abdul stretched to a low cross-shot which cannoned off Davis' right-hand post and out to Hakan who swept the ball into the far corner. One-nil. A couple of minutes later and it was all over when Shotton's risky ball on the edge of the 'D' was miscontrolled by Dave Connor and Abdul, finally, got the goal he'd been working for as he sidestepped the wrong-footed Connor and dummied Davis and flicked the ball into the empty net. Two-nil, game over.
1.Davis 2.Summerfield(sub:4.Walker) 3.Shotton(sub:22.Bishop) 6.Connor 13.Dandy(sub:14.Slater) 17.Sorensen
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