EKYC 4 Strathclyde United 3

At last, after 5 weeks of trying, a game on a Sunday morning. Some late call offs from Lee Elliot, Jamie Cunningham and Liam Crichton left EKYC with a pool of only 14 players to pick from. The pitch was heavy and the conditions were very windy.

We started off the game and it was noticeable that the boys had not played for a while, the usual slick passing and movement was not there. We did have Starthclyde Utd penned back in their own half for long periods but could not take advantage of some great work by the tireless Sam Hill.

Eventually, SAM HILL took the matters into his own hands and scored a great individual goal by firing the ball high into the visitors net from outside the box.
Gary McCulloch was the removed from the field after agravating his back injury, which meant some re shuffling of the team.
Going into the second half 3 changes were made and John Dingwall, Thomas McGuire and Cameron Gibson entered the game.

CAMERON GIBSON added to the scoring to make it 2-0,early in the 2nd half.

The boys seemed to tire a little and allowed Strathclyde back into the game, and after slack defending a soft penalty was awarded for a trip by Scott Graham. The United striker made no mistake and hammered the penalty low past James Kinniburgh to his right.

This seemed to give our opposition hope and a couple of minutes later were awarded another penalty after handball from Darren Smith. this time the taker changed sides and equalised by scoring low to James's left.

At the start of the 3rd period, another mistake in the defence this time from a corner led to United taking a 3-2 lead, and at this time there only looked like being one winner with EKYC looking tired and beaten.

On a rare break, and the first piece of football played all day EKYC got the equaliser and good work from Dean Arrol and Scott Mitchell played SAM HILL in and from a tight angle he rolled the ball into the net.

This seemed to give the boys new hope and after some good work down the right Sam Hill crossed the ball deep to the far post for RYAN KELLY to make it 4-3.
The remainder of the match was played in the United half and once again the team showed good charchter to come back from being a goal down, although the defence mistakes will need to be cut out.

Man of the Match went to the tireless SAM HILL not just for his 2 goals but for his all round play.

The team that started was;Kinniburgh,Arrol,McCulloch,Smith,Graham,McDonagh,Kelly,Park,Kerr,Hill and Mitchell.