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We come from 1 down to beat Clutton

By Steve Milkins

Wrington Redhill 3 Clutton 1

A slightly understrength home squad, hosted Clutton First’s, keen to avenge the 2-1 away defeat on the opening game of the season.

Since that opening game, Wrington have truly found their feet and found themselves in 3rd place ahead of this game, eleven points ahead of their opponents.

Due to manager Scott Campbell being away on a scouting trip at Anfield, club captain Connor Harding-James and midfield man, Cam Milkins, took the reins for the day.

The game was played on a very heavy surface, which affected both teams early on and only got worse.

The first goalmouth action came on 4 minutes when a clever free kick from Cam Milkins, found Jake Marshman in space who fed the ball to Luke Weeks who put Kris Bell in. Kris’s shot looked a certain goal but Clutton Keeper Curtis SMITH, made a world class save.

On 26 minutes, Wrington’s “Mr Reliable”, defender Jenson Backhouse, was unfortunate to be yellow carded following a 50-50 tackle very much affected by a very slippy pitch.

Two minutes later, Wrington were forced into an injury substitution when Kris Bell limped off. Josh Oliver was his replacement on the left wing, and whom within 10 minutes would make a significant impact on the game.

On 32 minutes, a long punt forward by Clutton caught Wrington a bit flat footed and keeper Rob Hannah came rushing out of his box to try and clear up, however, the ball bounced over him and fell to Keiran COX who calmly slotted the ball into the Wrington net from a tight angle just outside the box. One nil to the visitors.

Wrington drew level in the 39th minute, when Josh Oliver scored a fantastic goal. The ball from the right, came across the edge of the box, where Josh wrapped his right foot around and hit a first time shot into the top right hand corner.

Just as half time approached, Jake Marshman capitalised on a dreadful mistake from the Clutton keeper, gratefully slotting the keepers pass straight to him, into the net.

The second half didn’t start well with a dreadful tackle on midfield workhorse Lew Milkins, stopping the game for an extended period for treatment, before he bravely played on. Amazingly this went unpunished by the official.

Just before the hour, Luke fired in a shot from the edge of the box which was handled by a Clutton player. The resultant penalty was taken by Josh SKUSE, which was well saved by SMITH, however Josh was able to smash in the rebound to take a 3-1 lead.

Both sides made a number of changes in the final 30mins, with Clutton throwing everything at the Wrington defence, however they defended resolutely and the game ended with a well deserved hard fought victory to the home side taking them up to second place in Division one of the Somerset County league.

Supporters Man of the Josh Skuse.

Line Up – GK HANNAH,

DEF – BACKHOUSE, HARDING-JAMES, SKUSE, BERRY,

MID – C MILKINS, L MILKINS, ENGLISH,

FWD – WEEKS, BELL, MARSHMAN.

SUBS – PARSLOW (for BACKHOUSE), HOLMES (For ENGLISH), OLIVER (For BELL)

Supporters player of the match went to Josh SKUSE.

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