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Calne Eagles 3-1 Heytesbury

League Match - 28th January 2012

After last week’s 0-0 stalemate between Heytesbury and Calne Eagles the two sides met again and this time Calne came out on top with a 3-1 win. All three of their goals coming from striker Adam Bewley

Even though they have picked up some crucial league points since Christmas, The Eagles’ have found it difficult to find their best form recently. However, they started this match playing some impressive football and throughout the whole team they passed the ball with great pace and accuracy.

Nonetheless, despite the home team’s early dominance they opened the scoring in somewhat fortuitous circumstances. A through ball from Karl Sharratt found team mate Adam Moody who was flagged offside and did appear to be in an offside position, but the referee waved play on. Moody ran through on goal and saw his shot parried by keeper Henrique Da Silva straight into the path of Adam Bewley who tapped the ball into the empty net.

Calne still continued to control possession and doubled their lead after 20 minutes. However, Heytesbury will feel as disappointed with their defending with this goal as they were with the refereeing on the first goal. An Henrique Da Silva goal kick was powerfully headed back towards goal by Calne’s Brett Cullen. This caught Heytesbury’s defence square and Adam Bewley ran through to finish effortlessly past Da Silva who still hadn’t recovered his positioning after taking the goal kick.

Heytesbury’s Laurence Bartley nearly pulled a goal back when he broke through on goal but he saw his shot whistle just past the post.

With 31 minutes gone an injury to Adam Moody, who was playing a superb game, saw Sam Rogers come on as sub. Rogers, who hadn’t featured since December because of injury, duly set up Calne’s third goal with his first touch when he headed a bouncing ball past the last defender to once again release Adam Bewley to complete a first half hat-trick.

In the second half the game evened up and Heytesbury started to get their own passing game flowing. They had Calne stretched on numerous occasions and won several free kicks and corners. It was from one of those corners that they gave themselves hope of a comeback, when centre back Mark Hicketts placed a towering header into the very top corner of the goal with 30 minutes still left to play.

Soon after Heytesbury winger Chris Baker broke through Calne’s stubborn defence, but under pressure from the outrushing keeper Andy Windsor he lifted his shot just over the bar.

This was as close as Heytesbury came to scoring a second goal, as Calne showed good composure to see out their fifth win of the season, which ensures their survival in the division with still 3 games left to play. Indeed, Calne should have extended their lead further in the last 15 minutes with Sam Rogers, Adam Bewley and Karl Sharratt all having good chances to increase their side's margin of victory.

 

 

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