Spotland Methodists 0 Old Bolts A 4
With confidence high from the previous week's performance, any team in our way would be in for a tough test. A few changes this week saw the return of the thirds top scorer from last season David Kemp and a now fixed Jack Eddows, this coinciding with the debut of Mike Davids, made us look even better and stronger.
For a second consecutive week David Hughes scored an early opener. He first out jumped the opposition centre back to flick the ball out wide for Jimmy Hark, who whipped in a cross which big DH latched onto and slotted it over the line.
Our second came ten minutes later. Again, both of our centre forwards involved. David Hughes picked the ball up in the opposition half and passed it out to the left for Jimmy Hark, who cut inside the 18 yard box and hit a shot come cross towards the back post for David Kemp to tap in with ease.
The third goal was a peach. Jimmy Hark had been scythed down 25 yards out and the ref awarded a free kick. Big DH placed the ball down, tricking the opposition into thinking he was going to have a shot, but a crafty Kempo had sneaked past the wall into yards of space. With quick thinking the impressive Mike Davids who was alongside Dave Hughes passed the ball to Kemps who set himself up nicely with his first touch and duly chipped the ball over the advancing keeper from 10 yards out.
Our fourth was also well worked, with the tireless Dave Hughes again being the provider, picking the ball up out on the right and whipping in a vicious cross for the ever improving Cris Beardall to despatch into the bottom corner. We went in at half time 4-0 up.
The second half is were all the hard work had to be done. The opposition had a little more to offer in the second half, but an impressive display by the back four, especially the two centre backs (Jack Eddows & Neil Davies), saw every attack rebuffed. With the new centre midfield pairing of Mike Davids and Andy Witter we looked strong and hardly gave the opposition any time to dwell on the ball, being shut down quickly and sometimes ruthlessly. Another great performance by the whole squad. I think finally we are starting to click and will prove to be tough opposition for any one in this division.