Black Country Rangers
2 Halesowen Community Rangers 1
HCR made the journey over to Victoria Park. It was a wet and
dreary day. The game kicked off at 15.00. BCR started more brightly putting HCR
under pressure and HCR were slow to react. BCR looked hungry and in the first
half hit the woodwork twice before managing to open the scoring with a rapid
attack that, whilst Javon came out, we
were unable to prevent the ball crossing the line. The game was more even
thereafter but HCR went into the break trailing 1-0
Half time score BCR 1- 0
HCR
The second half was a different story with HCR waking up to
the challenge. We were missing Tarik and Marzouk who were not available and
Zeyad who had been injured in the match and could play no further part.
HCR contended and created and worked harder, whereas in the
first half we had only tested the keeper once the second half was proving to be
a much more competitive affair. Hamza had a couple of cracking attempts which
went just wide, Taha was pressuring the ball when he managed to unravel the
ball and combined well with Chris and Mahamood was able to latch onto the fast
flowing ball and slot it past the keeper for 1-1.
HCR and BCR were battling from end to end. The game looked
like it was going to be a draw with a couple of close chances for each side
when HCR kicked the ball apparently out of danger over the line and as our players began to regroup in expectation of a throw in, BCR made reasonable advantage of the fact the whistle had not been blown and put the ball in the back of our net for 2-1.
Despite industry and hard work HCR were unable to recover
and all the points went to BCR.
Man of the match was Javon who made a number of great saves in difficult playing conditions.
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