Chilcompton 9 Wrington Redhill 1

After back-to-back victories over the Easter weekend the visit to reigning League Champions and again contenders to retain their crown, Chilcompton Sports, was always going to be a challenging task. The home side reinforced by players usually competing at a higher level of football proved to be to well organised and were in no mood to give any ground to their opponents.

It didn’t help that the usual settled defensive line had to be changed with both full backs being replaced and whilst Matt Walsh and Josh Pitt worked tirelessly, the latter’s move from midfield precluded his busy, industrious influence in the middle of the park.

Defending the sloping pitch for the first 15 minutes the team battled well to keep the foraging Chilcompton at bay then a bizarre goal gave them the opening advantage. From way out on the right flank a hopeful cross from Jacob Brooks-Scully deceived everyone as the strong cross wind floated the ball into the top left corner with young Regan D’Arcy unable to keep the ball out.

Chilcompton then pressed more to take the game beyond Wrington Redhill who were trying hard to reach half time with minimal disadvantage hopefully to have some success later with the slope in their favour. However, this was not to be as the hosts added a second on 25 minutes when following a good run and cross from Monty Burgess, Alfie Dix was on hand to find the net. Two more goals were added within a minute of each other as Jed Parfitt met a cross from Ryan Allen at the back post and found the net and then Oliver Jones completed a solo run outpacing the defence and fired past D’Arcy for a 4-0 half time lead.

The second half saw Wrington Redhill try to salvage something from the game and Joe Creese was brought down just outside the penalty area and Sam Harvey’s free kick drifted into the hands of keeper Tom Crouch. Soon after Harvey scuffed wide from an Ayrton Phillps pass. A couple of half chances fell to George Fake, but he was closed down quickly before being able to get shots away.

All the effort evaporated when after some pressure on Chilcompton’s defence a swift break on the left led to a further goal and in the blink of an eye a further threegoals were notched up extremely late in the game although Harvey did manage to gain a consolation goal as the game ended 9-1.

So, it is on to another game on Tuesday evening away to Keynsham Town Reserves, 7.30pm ko and then a six game home run within the space of a fortnight and positive results are required in all these games in an effort to avoid the drop after only one season at the Premier division.

The team need all the backing possible and would be most grateful for as many supporters as possible to give them encouragement in their quest to avoid the drop in their remaining games.

 

Team:
Goalkeeper: ​Regan D’Arcy
Defence:      ​Matt Walsh, Dan Ferguson, Ethan Johnson, Josh Pitt
Midfield:​Ayrton Phillips, Travis Yule-Turner, Sam Harvey, Max Smith
Forwards:    ​Reece Ferguson-Obamwonyi, Joe Creese
Substitutes:​George Fake, Ryan Pugh, Ethan Williams