Fairford at Home

Lambourn anticipated a hard game against Fairford who were one place above us in the league but from the off the lads were on top. Some good passing early on between Harley, Decland and Kieran lead to some good chances but the goalkeeper made some good saves. Fairford threatened a couple of times but Bradley and Daniel protected Ciarhan in goal from having to make any meaningfull saves. A pass out of defence from Bradley found Kieran who passed to Luke he shot well which was defended but the ball fell to Declan who stroked it home. Howard came on for Harley and he was straight into action with a good run that was stopped just before he was about to score and the ball went out for a corner. Bradley whipped in the resulting corner and Declan headed home to make it 2- 0 at half time.
The second half was one way traffic with Luke and Kieran being denied on at least 5 occasions by the goalkeeper. Harley came on for Howard half way throught the second half and Lambourn continued to pour forward, from another corner Kieran knocked the ball to the edge of the box where Bradley smacked a fierce shot first time which whistled past the post. Towards the end of the game a momentary lack of concentration allowed Fairford to attack with 4 against 2 and they got a well taken goal back with 3 minutes left. After another couple of spurned chances from Lambourn the last minute saw Fairford press forward and in the last minute they won a corner which resulted in a goalmouth scramble that saw Bradley clear off the line before the whistle blew for a good win the only dissapointment was that it was not by a bigger margin.
Final score 2-1
Still unbeaten and back to the top of the league, we are back to the cup next week with a tough game away to Purton from Division 1 but with only Lambourn and Swindon Rangers in Div 1 now being the only unbeaten teams in all four divisions confidence is high.