30-03-14                                     CUMNOR MINORS  3  v  SUMMERTOWN STARS  4

With Cumnor coming into the game with three back to back wins confidence was at high BUT with three key players missing from the starting line up the match against Summertown was always going to be a tricky one!!

Summertown started the game the quicker of the two teams but without really troubling MEHMET who was playing in goal for the absent ADAM and it took until 17 minutes when the deadlock was broken and the stars had the lead, Cumnor were restricted to long range efforts and weren't causing the Summertown defence to many problems and just before halftime the stars double their lead when the forward lobbed the keeper....HT 0-2.
No changes were made to the Cumnor team at the start of the second half (mainly because we had no subs), but Cumnor did get a break when a long range effort from DOM was spilled by the keeper and Cumnor were back in the game,with the boys giving everything tiredness was starting to creep in and with GUY and GEORGE D struggling with knocks Cumnor were very much up against it and Summertown took full advantage and scored two quick goals on 46 and 50 mins, MEHMET made a couple of great saves to keep Cumnor in the game and with 10 minutes remaining TOM slotted the ball past the keeper to give the boys some hope and with 5 minutes left HARRYS through ball set up CAM to make it 3-4, Cumnor then threw everything at Summertown with all the players giving 100% effort in the final minutes BUT time unfortunately ran out and the game was lost..FT 3-4.

Considering our regular GK, Left back and Right midfielder were missing this was a brave and great effort from the boys all credit to them for giving it their best shot and at 4-1 down not giving up, with a full strength team available this result could have and probably would have been a different!!!!

Man of the Match :- GEORGE M with a never say die attitude.....a captains performance.

 

Our guest Referee today..........Howard Webb or was it Paul Lyons???!!!