Post by wingooner on Jan 13, 2022 12:52:21 GMT 1
By Malcolm Clarke
It has not been a good season for Winchester in cup ,competitions despite achieving some good results in the league. They had played five cup games, three against teams at a higher level than themselves and two against a decent club from their own level and won one and lost four of these, and on each occasion conceded the first goal of the game. It was pleasing therefore that they recorded a 5-0 win against Downton and led after just half an hour. Downton are two divisions below Winchester, but they are a solid Wessex League club who have been members of that league for virtually 30 years and have won trophies during that time.Their league record shoes a respectable record of 40 points from 22 league games and only two league defeats from 11 matches on their travels.
Winchester City therefore progressed to the next round of the Southampton Senior Cup and an away tie with Sholing as a result of this victory. Winchester's 16 for the match consisted 14 of the 16 that were also chosen for the AFC Totton match with only Rob Flooks and Patrick Nolan not featuring. However Ollie Griggs, Max Smith, Oli Bailey, Liam Callaghan and Dan Walster who were all on the substitutes bench on Friday and Ollie Balmer, Warren Bentley, Josh McCormick and Simba Mlambo all dropped to the bench which also included youngster Lex Vaughan. Connall Bark was also given a starting berth, but many of the younger players were left out with an under 23 game on Thursday.
Downton though started the match promisingly putting in a dangerous cross in the first minute. The home team however took the lead in the 2nd minute when Oli Bailey set up Liam Callaghan to score. It was 2-0 on the quarter of an hour when a Downton player was dispossessed and this resulted in Jamie Barron being set up to score. Midway through the half Craig Feeney scored a 3rd with his effort going in off the post and on the half hour Oli Bailey scored a 4th with his effort also going in off the post.
At half time Vaughan came on for Jamie Barron and during the second half Ollie Balmer and Warren Bentley also came on replacing Liam Callaghan and Craig Feeney and against a Downton team that battled until the end Bentley scored the fifth and final goal from the penalty spot after the penalty was awarded for a push in the back. Downton tested Charlie Philpott in the Winchester goal on a few occasions and at times looked good going forward. However Winchester had other chances to score and with the pressure off after taking a convincing lead early on were able to play the remainder of the game in relative comfort.
Thursday's under 23 match against Weymouth is postponed due to a covid issue in the Weymouth camp
It has not been a good season for Winchester in cup ,competitions despite achieving some good results in the league. They had played five cup games, three against teams at a higher level than themselves and two against a decent club from their own level and won one and lost four of these, and on each occasion conceded the first goal of the game. It was pleasing therefore that they recorded a 5-0 win against Downton and led after just half an hour. Downton are two divisions below Winchester, but they are a solid Wessex League club who have been members of that league for virtually 30 years and have won trophies during that time.Their league record shoes a respectable record of 40 points from 22 league games and only two league defeats from 11 matches on their travels.
Winchester City therefore progressed to the next round of the Southampton Senior Cup and an away tie with Sholing as a result of this victory. Winchester's 16 for the match consisted 14 of the 16 that were also chosen for the AFC Totton match with only Rob Flooks and Patrick Nolan not featuring. However Ollie Griggs, Max Smith, Oli Bailey, Liam Callaghan and Dan Walster who were all on the substitutes bench on Friday and Ollie Balmer, Warren Bentley, Josh McCormick and Simba Mlambo all dropped to the bench which also included youngster Lex Vaughan. Connall Bark was also given a starting berth, but many of the younger players were left out with an under 23 game on Thursday.
Downton though started the match promisingly putting in a dangerous cross in the first minute. The home team however took the lead in the 2nd minute when Oli Bailey set up Liam Callaghan to score. It was 2-0 on the quarter of an hour when a Downton player was dispossessed and this resulted in Jamie Barron being set up to score. Midway through the half Craig Feeney scored a 3rd with his effort going in off the post and on the half hour Oli Bailey scored a 4th with his effort also going in off the post.
At half time Vaughan came on for Jamie Barron and during the second half Ollie Balmer and Warren Bentley also came on replacing Liam Callaghan and Craig Feeney and against a Downton team that battled until the end Bentley scored the fifth and final goal from the penalty spot after the penalty was awarded for a push in the back. Downton tested Charlie Philpott in the Winchester goal on a few occasions and at times looked good going forward. However Winchester had other chances to score and with the pressure off after taking a convincing lead early on were able to play the remainder of the game in relative comfort.
Thursday's under 23 match against Weymouth is postponed due to a covid issue in the Weymouth camp