Acklam Football Club

Acklam FC v Grangetown YCC

Saturday 5^th April 2008

 

Newly crowned Champions Acklam entertained Grangetown on a very mixed day for weather at the Acorn Centre

Acklam set off like a house on fire and took the lead with less than a minute on the clock when Jack Cubbin played in Jordan Wales who’s cross was met by Adam Lane to score

Acklam increased their lead within a minute when Adam Lane hit a terrific cross shot ala Marco Van Basten that flew into the far corner of the net

Grangetown hit back after 10mins with a run down the right and a good cross was fired home by their forward

Joe Stubley went down the left and played in Alex Hamblen who’s shot was deflected wide for a corner

Grangetown were back again and a great one two set their forward away but his shot went wide

Grangetown were pressing for the equaliser and had a number of corners but failed to make them count

From one of these corners Acklam broke away and Jack Cubbin shot just wide

Alex Hamblen crossed from the left and Josh McDermott got the final touch for the goal that he deserved to put Acklam 3-1 up

Adam Lane then blasted over after been set up by Alex Hamblen

Acklam lost the influential Joe Stubley who twisted his ankle and had to be replaced by Stephen Waite

Grangetown had a great move down the left and their shot was brilliantly tipped onto the bar by Joe Parkin, but Grangetown were first to react and scored their second of the game

Then a great move by Josh McDermott and Alex Hamblen set up Stephen Waite to fire home to make the score 4-2

 

Half Time: Acklam FC 4 v 2 Grangetown YCC

 

Grangetown started the 2^nd half well and had a shot just wide when put through

Acklam brought on Lewis Bollands to add some extra bite to the midfield

Grangetown then capitalised on some sloppy defending and a right wing cross was met with a good header to make it 4-3

Grangetown were having most of the play now and had they taken their chances could of easily drawn level

Adam Lane had a shot just wide when he took on a couple of defenders by himself in a great run 

Full Time: Acklam FC 4 v 3 Grangetown YCC 

Acklam started like a house on fire and shot into a 2 goal lead, but full credit to Grangetown who made them battle all the way. The injury to Joe Stubley was a big loss to Acklam and meant they had to reshuffle and found it hard going at times

But having said all that it was 3 good points against a decent side 

MOM: Jack Cubbin ran the show in the first half with some quality passing and dragged the team to victory with a hard solid second half display