BOLDMERE ST MICHAEL’S 3 SHIFNAL TOWN 3 Buildbase FA Vase, 2nd Qualifying Round Saturday 25 September 2021
BOLDMERE ST MICHAEL’S 3 SHIFNAL TOWN 3
(Boldmere won 3-2 on
penalties)
Buildbase FA Vase, 2nd
Qualifying Round
Saturday 25 September
2021
This game was all that you would expect from
two teams at the top of the league – a ding-dong battle which could have gone
either way right up until the final whistle. The hosts had the first chance in
the 2nd minute, when Robbie Thompson-Brown controlled a ball in from
the left, but his shot on the turn from the edge of the penalty area was wide.
The visitors then began to create the better chances, and a crossfield ball
from Harry Cunningham after 9 minutes picked out Jake Webb, who cut in, only
for his low 15-yard shot to be saved well by Dan Crane. Mikes went close on 33
minutes, when Thompson-Brown’s free-kick was headed over by Harry Craven. A
minute later, Shifnal took the lead with a bizarre goal. KYLE MONTAGUE and a defender went up for Jordan Uppal’s long
throw into the box. The defender got his head to the ball first, but it
ricocheted off the striker’s head and looped over Crane and into the net. It
could have been 2-0 2 minutes later, when Webb played in Kieron Northwood on
the left, but his 12-yard shot came back off the near post.
The home side came out for the second period
with all guns blazing, and were level on 48 minutes, when ALEX McSKEANE cut in from the left and drilled the ball into
the bottom corner from the edge of the penalty area. Worse was to come for Town
in the 52nd minute, when a cross from the left found THOMPSON-BROWN at the far post
for a tap-in. This prompted Shifnal into their best spell of the game. Uppal
steamed down the right in the 57th minute, but Crane dived to save
his powerful drive at the foot of the near post. 2 minutes later, the scores
were level. Northwood took advantage of some defensive slackness and played the
ball through for JAY HOLDCROFT,
who slid it past Crane from 12 yards. A Webb corner after 63 minutes saw some
desperate defending, with two shots being cleared off the line as Town pushed
to regain their lead. It was the home side, however, that grabbed the fifth
goal of the game on 77 minutes. They broke down the left, and a low cross was
converted at the far post by substitute REECE
LEEK. Shifnal were awarded a free-kick a couple of yards inside the
Mikes’ half a minute into stoppage time. Goalkeeper George Scott took the kick
as Town pushed everyone into the penalty area, and he found Jordan Jones, who
headed inside for MONTAGUE to
bundle the ball over the line. The visitors could have won the game in the 5th
minute of time added on, when substitute Brad Sharman was through on goal, but
Crane was bravely off his line to take the game into a penalty shoot-out. The
home side kept the cooler heads, and ran out winners by 3-2.
MIKES:
Dan
Crane, Ben George, James Bowen (Harry Sweeney 73mins), Pedro Lime, Harry
Craven, Alex Worley, Alex McSkeane, Joseph Daley, Isaac Phillips (Kyle Byrne
55mins), Robbie Thompson-Brown, Danny O’Sullivan (Reece Leek 75mins).
Subs not used: Stephen Palmer; Matthew Coton.
Cautions:
Thompson-Brown
(45mins); Bowen (45mins).
SHIFNAL: George Scott, Jordan
Uppal, Jordan Jones, Ben Perks, Brandon Taylor, Kieron Northwood, Keanu Cooper,
Harry Cunningham (Angelo Franco 78mins), Kyle Montague, Jay Holdcroft (Brad
Sharman 78mins), Jake Webb (Rees Wedderburn (65mins).
Subs not used: Brad Smith; Kyle Pearson.
Caution: Northwood (45mins).
Attendance:
104.
Referee: Liam Teraud (Halesowen).
Assistant
referees:
Susan Albrighton (Birmingham).
Ewan Bates (Birmingham).
Shifnal Star Man: Brandon Taylor.
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