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Written by Peter Wilson
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Sunday, 16 September 2007 |
Saturday15th September 2007
Vics 1
Histon 3
Just when you thought things could not get any worse.....well
The levels of incompetancy already featured this season reached a significant new low as Vics were comprehensibly beaten by Histon. And to be truthful only a combination of poor finishing and some half decent quality keeping kept the
scoreline within the boundaries of total embarassment.
Vics new signings failed to instill much renewed confidence from the start and when former Wrexham midfielder Gareth Evans was slow to react to a cross leaving Connett to attempt to intervene the keeper only succeeeded in fouling Cliff Akurang and the same player picked himself up to score from the spot and secure a 3rd minute lead. Coulson, who continues to look the Vics best bet for a goal, got down the line to deliver a low cross that Ada bareley scooped over his own bar.A second glaring defensive error was punished after debutant Paul Warhurst sliced a poorly hit cross-cum-shot from Murray into his own net. A disturbingly vulnerable Vics defence was again exposed as Murray and Akurang worked another all too easy opening before the latter finished weakly. Connett was forced to keep out efforts from Akurang and Knight-Percival before Vics' inadequacies were further underlined by an atrocious challenge from Evans that rightly resulted in a red card. 0-2 and down to ten men the writing was already on the wall. Brown missed two further sitters leaving the most optomistic Vics fans happy that at the break they only faced a two goal deficit.
Josh Wilson replaced Tait at half time and Vics grabbed an unlikely lifeline 5 minutes into the second period when a Michael Coulson shot deflected wickedly to defeat the visiting keeper. Coulson again forced a save from the Histon keeper following an astute pass from Simon Heslop, who became a growing influence as the game went on. Warhurst forced Osborn into a full length save as for the first, and only, time Vics began to apply pressure. Yet they remained vulnerable to the break and Kennedy should have done better than head wide from 7 yards. And so it was particularly surprising that when Vics, then enjoying their best passage of play, opted to take off their "engine", Michael Carr, and then replace their most potent threat, Michael Coulson, with defender Mark Birch. Almost immediately John Kennedy scored with a well placed header from a Cambridge corner and the game was over as a contest. Indeed it was left to Connett to again keep the scoreline within less embarassing proportions with a fine save to deny a close range Murray header.
Team: 4-4-2
Connett /
Battersby, Warhurst, Strong, Brown /
Evans, Heslop, Carr (Byrne 75 mins), Coulson (Birch 79 mins) /
Tait (Wilson h/t) Maamria /
Subs not used: Murphy & Williams
Referee: M.A. Naylor
Man of the Match: Ben Connett
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