Rovers See Maximum Return
- tricky291
- 11 minutes ago
- 3 min read
Uxbridge 0
Sutton Common Rovers 1
Christian Adugyamfi (89')
Time to get out the good old football cliches for this match. “A weeks a long time in football” “It’s a funny old game” and “there’s no easy games in this league” are a good start, but i'm not sure any really can explain how Uxbridge can go from beating a fellow play-off contender 10-0 one week, to losing to a relegation candidate 1-0 just seven days later. To be fair on the day Sutton Common Rovers probably deserved the three points, after an Uxbridge side without talismanic forward George Moore due to illness, failed to spark and The Reds are left with three games to secure a play off place.
It was a match that really failed to get going at all, although on 4 minutes Andrio Brandao laid the ball off to Harry Rush who saw his shot deflected over from the edge of the box. The game then drifted and apart from efforts from Brandao and Dan Fosu, straight at the keeper - the first 15 minutes were of little consequence. Rovers were happy to absorb any pressure and try to counter on the break, which they did comfortably. On 26 minutes Uxbridge fashioned a good chance as a corner was not cleared, and the ball back into the box was headed narrowly over by James Taylor. As the half drew to a close Uxbridge had tier two best chances of the day, firstly on 37 minutes Brandao did superb;y to get into the box on the left hand side, he laid the ball back across the box to an onrushing Dernell Wynter, but he was only able to pull his shot wide of the post on the run. Three minutes later though The Reds should have been ahead, Ada Okorogheye being his usual industrious self, did superbly to hold off a defender and get into the box, as he twisted and turned he was brought down, and a penalty was the correct result. Josh Addae stepped up and put the ball to the left of Kacper Orlowski, who guessed correctly and pushed the ball away to keep things level. Within 2 minutes Rovers broke away and had top scorer Daniel Pepple had more composure, he would have scored, but he fired over when well placed.
HT 0-0
The second half was more of the same, in fact checking my notes nothing of any consequence happened until just after the hour mark - which sums up the match perfectly. It was Wynter who put some pressure on the Rovers defence as they tried to shepherd the ball out, he won the ball but Orlowski saved the cross-shot well, and no player in red was able to get to the loose ball quick enough. The rest of the half saw plenty of speculative efforts from both sides, but neither defence was unduly troubled. But it was the visitors who grew more in confidence as the half wore on. Two free headers that went wide from corners on 79 and 81 in quick succession, should have been the warning for Uxbridge that Rovers were not happy with a point, but it was not heeded as on 83 minutes the ball was lost in midfield, allowing a breakaway but the Rovers attack were unable to take advantage and the resultant shot went narrowly wide. After another shot went into the side netting, Sutton Common finally did get their goal on 89 minutes, as some sloppy play in midfield saw the ball get loose and Christian Adugyamfi was played in non the left hand side, to be one on one with George Legg, he calmly slotted the ball past him to send the Rovers team and staff into wild celebrations. There was time for one last Uxbridge chance as a free kick on the edge of the Rovers box was drilled across the face of goal by Massimo Giamattei, bit nobody in red could get a touch and the visitors held on for a famous victory.
The despondency around the ground was tempered slightly as a lot of other results went Uxbridge’s way, meaning they still ended the day in 2nd, and a place in the playoffs remains in their own hands. Next up though a trip to 3rd place Hanworth Villa on Saturday, where a more positive result than this will be needed. Time to get out another football cliche and take each match as it comes.
FT 0-1
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