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Sussex Senior Cup Second Round
Saturday
27th
October
2007
ROBINS BOOK PLUM
TIE WITH BOROUGH
Shoreham 0-2
Hassocks
Hassocks
booked a plum home tie with Eastbourne Borough in the 3rd
round of the Sussex Senior Cup with a 2-0 win at Shoreham. Goals
from Anthony Hibbert and Matt Amos sealed their passage through
in a drab affair that offered very little goalmouth action or
entertainment for the crowd.
Shoreham
went into the game with just the dangerous Darren Annis up front
on his own, Ashley Marsh doing a superb job marshalling him.
Spencer Slaughter slotted in at sweeper in the absence of the
suspended Stuart Faith and also did a commendable job, as did
Peter Lear in shepherding Laurence Edwards, who hardly had a
kick all afternoon. The away side coped admirably with anything
aerial that Shoreham threw at them and apart from the first 15
minutes, Joel Harding was rarely tested.
Early
chances fell to the home side, Paul Schofield firing over from
12 yards when well placed and Jamie Groves shooting straight at
Harding from 3 yards, when he should have scored from Annis’s
corner. Hibbert fired well over but it was the midfielder who
gave the Robins the lead on 28 minutes, thanks to a schoolboy
howler from keeper Steve Allfrey. Hibbert’s shot from 18 yards
lacked his usual power but Allfrey managed to let the ball slip
through his hands, between his legs and the ball trickled over
the line for the softest of goals. The industrious Matt Robbins
had a shot saved by Allfrey as the half petered out.
If
entertainment was in short supply in the first period, the
second half was even poorer fare, both sides struggling to get
the ball down on a difficult surface. Gault headed wide from a
Hibbert cross, Annis fired just wide and Sam Fisk was denied by
the feet of Allfrey. The Robins sealed the win in the 90th
minute, Amos tapping home from Hibbert’s pinpoint centre, to
make the journey back from Cambridge University for the weekend
worth it.
Hassocks
can now look forward to the visit of Eastbourne Borough and
hopefully a bumper crowd, no doubt intrigued by the return of
Pat Harding to the Beacon.
Team:
Harding, Turner, Thompson, Marsh, Lear, Slaughter,
Robbins, Fisk, Hibbert, Gault, Sheriff
Subs: Amos (Sheriff 83), Simpson (Turner 90), Newington, Jacques, Wickwar
(unused)
Starman: Ashley Marsh - did a superb job on Shoreham dangerman
Darren Annis, although Pete Lear ran him close with another
consistent effort
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