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Newhaven FC host Pagham FC in the Peter Bentley Challenge Cup 3rd Round at Fort Road |
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The Dockers ⚓ host The Lions 🦁 on a horrendously wet 🌧 night by the Ouse. Good job the tide is out at the moment. A change or 2 tonight. Little is still left back but has Bailey inside him at centre half. Robbie Malila is in the midfield with Blunty and Alfie in the 10 as ever. Big is up front with Harry and Conner Edwards on the wings. Paul "Woody" Woods is standing in for the injured Jake. Lets hope it's not a 🧹Halloween 🎃horror show like the performance, or lack of, on Saturday. We'll be optimistic and hope it's going to be Fab-Boo-Lous.
The scoring opened on 4 minutes when Rob Malila netted ⚽with the assist from Lee. Alfie got his first on 11 ⚽from the spot after he was fouled in the box. Lee gets clear on 16 but hits it's straight at the keeper🧤. Josh Tuck went off injured and Max comes on. Hope it not too bad. He's been a really good late addition to the squad. Callum Edwards gets his first on 23 ⚽with another assist from Lee. Big Roobo has another near miss on 34 as he hits the post. He finally gets on the scoresheet on 36 ⚽with the assist from Alfie. Lee gets clear again on 38, round the keeper who then wipes him out. The keeper gets a red card but refuses to go off 🤣. He eventually goes 🚶♂️but it's to the bench instead of down the tunnel. They don't have a spare keeper so it's a quick glove and shirt swap with an outfield player who has to step up to face a penalty. He is probably expecting to pick the ball out of the net but Alfie puts it wide🤦♂️. The first half goes on and on and on mostly due to the time wasted by the keeper refusing to be sent off. The whistle finally goes after 15 minutes and the Dockers are coasting at 4-0 up. It could have been more but the lino was working overtime with the offside flag as the Dockers outpaced the opposition. Hope the lino down the other end isn't so eager.
It takes just 2 minutes into the second half for Callum Edwards to get his second ⚽ from an Alfie Rogers cross. Big's second goal is denied by the cross bar and the refs opinion that it didn't cross the line. Boo🎃. Blunty gets on the rebound but blasts it wide. Luca comes on for Rob Malia. The Dockers are struggling to test the stand-in keeper until Alfie tackles him in the box and the ball rebounds into the net ⚽ to make it 6. On 80 and we are all looking on confused as Luca is booked for something. Substitute Ryan Walton looks like he gets the 7th but Luca is deemed offside. The Dockers have to settle for 6 and on their way to the 4th round.
A well-deserved result for the Dockers. There was some great team play and some good individual skill. Looked like the Dockers we know and love who can be devastating in attack. How could this be nearly the same team as Saturday? Total contrast to that team who looked like a bunch of strangers who had only just met 🤷♂️.
There were a few complaints at the ref but he did a good job considering the weather and kept the standards up. Kept the 5th Official quiet 😶 and got the big decisions right, especially the red card. He could have been a bit more picky about delaying freekicks, balls being kicked away and the antics of their keeper once booked but did enough to stop it getting out of hand. Would settle for that every week but we all know that won't happen. Some of the offsides were disputable but the best technology in the world can't work out where the line is so these guys should be forgiven if they get the odd one wrong.
The hot chocolate was up to it's usual high standard👍.
More Cup action up next with the First Round of the FA Cup.
Tranmerekat🐾
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| Greetings from a very wet Fort Road |
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| Watching the Ferry |
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| Checking out the squad |
