Match Report for Sat 31^st Jan 2009

Cleevillians 10 Cirencester B 0

Cleevillians returned to the top of the Hereford and Gloucester League 1 following an emphatic win against Cirencester. Sean Flanagan opened the scoring after 7 minutes, slotting the ball underneath the keeper following a well worked short corner. Two minutes later, his brother Toby made a tackle inside his own half before carrying the ball to the edge of the circle and then finding Vince Clark who drove the ball past the Cirencester keeper. Cirencester were unlucky not to pull a goal back when a fine shot was well saved by "Big C" in the Cleevillians goal, but this turned out to be the only real shot that the opposition made in the whole game.

Vince Clark completed a first half hat-trick with 2 further goals, either side of one from Tom North, with all 3 goals coming from short corners. Cleevillians then went 7-0 up before half time when Ben Link took the ball from inside his own half, drove past 2 players and into the opposition's D, before presenting Vince Clark with a simple tap in.

Cleevillians started the second half in much the same vein, scoring 10 minutes into the half following a great run down the right by Vince Clark who unselfishly laid the ball off to Tom North to tap into an empty net. 5 minutes later Vince Clark was desperately unlucky not to score when he dribbled around a number of players in the penalty area before launching a reverse stick lob which hit the bar. Scott Mcilquham was the first to react and converted yet another tap in. Minutes later Vince Clark was rewarded with his 5th goal of the match, when he ran onto a pass from Stuart Skinner and stroked the ball past the advancing keeper. Moments later Cirencester lost their keeper to injury and this seemed to spur them on and their determination was rewarded when they managed to prevent Cleevillians from adding to their score for the remaining 15 minutes.