Match Report
This important win returned symmetry to this season’s results; now played 13, won 6, drawn 1, lost 6. Bodey handed the armband back to Power whose protracted and overly aggressive team talk was not taken seriously but seemed to do the trick.
He started by giving the ball away early on, then recovering to head the ball wide when stranded outside his box. From the resulting corner, Harthan managed a miraculous goal-line clearance which led to vigorous protests from the opposition. No VAR, no goal-line technology, score remained 0-0. In his handover notes, Bodey had said “Harthan at left back was arguably the only player to come out of last week with any credit.” Perhaps he will let others hype him up in future.
A slide rule pass (getting the theme yet?) from Bodey to King saw the latter just outpace the 60-year-old opposition keeper and he drilled the ball into the bottom corner.
Sainsbury’s Large oranges were the prosaic choice for half-time this week. They worked. Four changes refreshed the legs. Pace and youth on the right hand side (Crutchley and Byrne). Poise and calm elsewhere (Gorton and Jones). The inverse function to exponentiation.
With ten minutes left, the effort seemed for nothing. An Essemmay in-swinging corner was brilliantly finished with a diving header. From Mornington. One off the golden boot tally. It’s official. See the statistics below. Keeper had no chance.
But this team remembered to show its fine spirit. Killen finally ran out of steam and King came back to replace him. He sprinted down the left wing, cut the ball back and Bodey was on hand to complete the scalene and force the ball home. This was his best performance for a while, The Chairman was even present to see the experiment working again.
This was a good confidence boost for London. Don’t let the momentum falter.