Tranmerekat on Tour: Surrey Not Sorry

Tranmere Rovers FC visit Sutton United FC at the VBS Community Stadium in League 2

Rovers are away to the "U"s (not the U-turns, these wear yellow and those wear blue) at Gander Green Lane in Sunny Surrey. We are back here for the second time this year after getting a point during the losing run at the tail end of last season. This time we arrive having won the last three in the league and hoping to carry on that run here. Micky Mellon going for 4 in a row, 4 in a row. The sun 😎🌞 is shining so here we go for our first Tranmere game of the season.

The Whites, (seem here in the teal 3rd kit) were aggressive from the off. Some good football being played at times. The 'Amber and Chocolates' lost a centre back to injury and the replacement didn't last long either. Bit fragile these, made of chocolate maybe 🍫. Last time we saw Paul Lewis he was playing against us at Northampton but today he was partnered up front with Hemmings. He was fouled in the box and Hemmings ⚽ scored the resulting penalty on 19. Team work makes dream work. Both sides struggled to keep possession with lots of playing the middle 3rd. Lewis ⚽ got the second goal in the last minute of injury time 45+4, and we went into the break in the lead.

There were worries what would come next. Would Micky make defensive changes again? He didn't and the battle continued where it left off. It got more niggly and the ref got more random. We made a couple of changes that were thankfully like for like. Substitute Elliott Nevitt had a good chance late on but could hit the target and the second half remained goalless. Our first Tranmere win since January. Great team performance and 4th clean sheet too. A different world to last time we saw them play.

We remember this ref from Newport away earlier in the year. He had a better day today but that's not hard after last time. Still a D+.

POTM: Our new favourite, the man mountain that is Simeu. Simeeeeeuuuuuuuu

Ste-Award gets a 8/10 for being very friendly and taking the micky out of me hiding in the rucksack.

Scranometer registered a 5 for cold cheese 🧀 on cold chips 🍟.

Good to see the new away end finished and all the facilities upgraded. Like the shelf at the back of the stand where I can sit with Pepe.

Back at the AMEX again next Tuesday. See you there.

Love Tranmerekat 🐾