Delboy
14th March 2007, 08:20 AM
From the Brizzle Rivals site...
Manager Johnson opted to go with an unchanged eleven from Sturday's win, meaning fit again captain Louis Carey returned only to the bench.
City had an early penalty on Saturday and should have had one tonight, as David Noble was bundled over inside the box after just one minute, but weak referee Swarbrick bottled the decision, giving a free kick two millimetres outside the box.
Within 13 minutes City were ahead, a channel ball was well retrieved by Showunmi and his cross found keeper Ricketts in no mans' land and Jevons nodded into an empty goal. City were well on top and Jevons should have added a second after a goalmouth scramble which saw Ricketts on the floor but he put the ball over the bar with the goal unguarded.
It looked as though City would go into the break one up, but just a minute before half time the visitors were level with a wonder goal from Paynter, who struck a dipping shot from over 35 yards into the net.
The second half was only 4 minutes old when the visitors took the lead, and that from a City corner! Ricketts taking a cross and launching a huge throw which set up a two on two break, Colbreck outpacing Betsy and setting up Ashikodi and the on loan player, who could well have been sent off well before then after commiting 3 possible yellow card offences (two fouls and gestures to the crowd after their equaliser) hammered home.
Six minutes later it was game over, as Scumacher's long range shot was helped over his own goal line by Basso, a very poor mistake by the Brazilian.
Johnson's response was to replace Noble with Smith and then Carey with Fontaine, but Bradford, who indulged in a huge amount of time wasting throughout, grew and grew in confidence and began to play the ball around City at will.
Smith missed a presentable chance with a header from a Showunmi knock down before Russell was introduced late on for Johnson and in injury time he pulled a consolation back when drilling home, but the referee blew the final whistle immediately after the restart.
Clearly this result is a big blow, as the opportunity to put a very significant gap between us and Yeovil and Forest was lost.
However, as someone said to me coming out, if we had gone into the game one point ahead, won 3-0 and then been four points clear with just nine to play we'd be in dreamland.
This geezer is gonna be biased but if what he says about Moses is cosher then I hope Weverall can handle him!
Ce'st la guerre!
Manager Johnson opted to go with an unchanged eleven from Sturday's win, meaning fit again captain Louis Carey returned only to the bench.
City had an early penalty on Saturday and should have had one tonight, as David Noble was bundled over inside the box after just one minute, but weak referee Swarbrick bottled the decision, giving a free kick two millimetres outside the box.
Within 13 minutes City were ahead, a channel ball was well retrieved by Showunmi and his cross found keeper Ricketts in no mans' land and Jevons nodded into an empty goal. City were well on top and Jevons should have added a second after a goalmouth scramble which saw Ricketts on the floor but he put the ball over the bar with the goal unguarded.
It looked as though City would go into the break one up, but just a minute before half time the visitors were level with a wonder goal from Paynter, who struck a dipping shot from over 35 yards into the net.
The second half was only 4 minutes old when the visitors took the lead, and that from a City corner! Ricketts taking a cross and launching a huge throw which set up a two on two break, Colbreck outpacing Betsy and setting up Ashikodi and the on loan player, who could well have been sent off well before then after commiting 3 possible yellow card offences (two fouls and gestures to the crowd after their equaliser) hammered home.
Six minutes later it was game over, as Scumacher's long range shot was helped over his own goal line by Basso, a very poor mistake by the Brazilian.
Johnson's response was to replace Noble with Smith and then Carey with Fontaine, but Bradford, who indulged in a huge amount of time wasting throughout, grew and grew in confidence and began to play the ball around City at will.
Smith missed a presentable chance with a header from a Showunmi knock down before Russell was introduced late on for Johnson and in injury time he pulled a consolation back when drilling home, but the referee blew the final whistle immediately after the restart.
Clearly this result is a big blow, as the opportunity to put a very significant gap between us and Yeovil and Forest was lost.
However, as someone said to me coming out, if we had gone into the game one point ahead, won 3-0 and then been four points clear with just nine to play we'd be in dreamland.
This geezer is gonna be biased but if what he says about Moses is cosher then I hope Weverall can handle him!
Ce'st la guerre!