| Date | 13 December 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Competition | Vets Summer League 2017/18 - DIV. 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Venue | Panorama | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Match | Panorama F.C. - Old Parks 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Final Result | 0 - 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Match Report |
In one of the biggest upset of this year's division, Old Parks managed to beat Panorama at home and gave lifeline to the teams behind, all of team waiting for Panorama to finally drop some points after an incredible start. After 2 weeks of cancelled games due to weather, in a beatiful summer night Panorama barely managed to field 11 players. The list of absent players was quite long. Kelly, Meroni (recovering from a difficult surgery and hopefully able to come back and enjoy life next year), Lewis, Atkison, Dixon, Stoychev... a long list indeed. Things didn't get any better when Robson injured himself, forcing the team to scramble to find a balanced formation against a team that had little to offer. With Wills coming back from semi-retirement in order to provide some bodies on the field, and getting injured in the process, Robson was forced to come back in the second half trying to help the team. And yet, even by playing with 10 against 11, Panorama was by far the better team, even if their usual flow never really had a chance to develop in a messy game. Jeanes was involved only few times, and there was little he could do when the defence made a costly mistake and let one of Old Park's players win the ball and score on a one on one with the keeper. Panorama hit the post in the first half with Olgiati's header, and got very close on scoring with some long shots from Bailey, finally making his debut. Bezuidenhout, abandoned up front, tried to provide some danger but couldn't convert his chances. After Old Parks' lucky goal, it was all Panorama, and they got close to score with Bezuidenhout again and Miles. In the dying minutes they've even got a penalty after Bezuidenhout wsa hacked in the area, but once again Old Park's keeper managed somehow to save the day with a great save on Bezuidenhout's shot. The end of the game saw Old Parks players celebrating an unlikely first win that took them closer to the safety zone, while Panorama, while fighting hard, had one of those nigths to forget... |
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