football rambles

 Well, things are looking to be going from bad to worse at the Walks where King's Lynn went down to bottom team on Saturday.  After starting the season with some exciting striker options, King's Lynn are now short up front and lacked anything resembling clinical up front. The first half saw very few chances for either side with a chance for the home side on 11 minutes from Adam Marriot being a rare opportunity. The first shot was saved and then the second was cleared off the line. King's Lynn did most of the attacking in the half, but the only other real chance fell to Alfreton on the 34th minute.  The second half started off in controversy when Adam Marriot back heeled the ball into the goal to give King's Lynn the lead. However, the linesman said the ball hadn't gone over the line. It definitely had. This was also the turning point in the game as Lynn seemed to go to pieces and Alfreton grew in confidence. The visitor's biggest threat seemed to come from set p...

 Phew, what a game! After witnessing a number of lackluster performances lately, it was good to witness a truly entertaining match when Cambridge took on Tranmere on Saturday. To be honest, the first half was a bit of a stop/start affair with Cambridge playing the ball on the floor, but Tranmere tending to go aerial in their attempts to play ex-Cambridge centre forward, Joey Ironside into the game. In the opening encounters, Sullay Kaikai came the closest heading over the crossbar in the 13th minute. Tranmere responded with a chance of their own when Cambridge had to scramble a clearance away from a corner that Connor Jennings got on the end of on 22 minutes. The next 10 minutes were a bit of a scruffy affair with both sides battling in midfield and feeding off scraps. As the half drew to a close Patrick Brough had a great chance to put Rovers in the lead, but fired wide. Cambridge responded with another short from Kaikai that forced a good save from veteran Rovers' keeper Joe Murp...

 Despite starting the season with a wealth of players up front King's Lynn have lost all of their established goalscorers and this really showed on Saturday. The young Sean Sealey showed some good movement, but was bullied a bit by their older defenders. Both sides had chances and Lynn looked the better team in the first half, but neither of the goalkeepers had much to worry about. The second half was more even and Hereford looked to take advantage after Cameron Forde Brown hobbled off with what looked like a nasty injury and Ross crane was sent off for what looked like an innocuous challenge. However, neither side looked like scoring today and it did indeed finish 0-0

 Yesterday Downham took on Felixstowe on a freezing cold day that saw most matches called off. Fair play for them for getting the game on, but unfortunately, that was a about all they got right. Downham started the game off fairly well and Charlie Royle and owain McQuaide looked as lively as usual. Downham had some early chances and Royle hit the inside of the post on seven minutes. However, it felt again like they were missing something up front. A long ball through to De La Paz saw the Seasiders take the lead on 23 minutes, as they seemed to catch the Downham defence napping and showed them how it was done. De La Paz also had a couple of chances to increase the lead, but at halftime it was still 1-0 to the visitors. Downham came out looking motivated to get back in the game in the second half and Royle and Visocanskis posed a threat for the home team without looking overly dangerous. Felixstowe looked disciplined at the back and seemed to be able to deal with Downham. They hit Do...

 Yesterday saw Cambridge take on Walsall on the first day of the year. Cambridge have been drifting around the play off positions; Walsall after a good start to the season have dropped in to the play off positions after being top of League 2 for most of the season so far. The first half for the most part was a bit of a cagey affair with the two teams cancelling each other out. Just as it looked like the teams were going to go into the break on level terms, James Brophy picked out Ben Knight who drove home to put Cambridge ahead in stoppage time. The goal probably changed the team talks for each manager and both came out on the front foot. However, it was Cambridge who found the back of the net though when Ben Knight got his second with a fantastic lob of the Walsall keeper on 53 minutes.  For the rest of the game both teams had chances with Bowne hitting the post for the visitors and a speculative bicycle kick from Ben Knight hitting the cross bar and Jobe also hitting the pos...

 There was a definite feeling of deja vu about this game as Downham again dominated and looked by far the better team in the first half. Despite Downham using the wide men more than going down the centre, they could easily have been 2-0 up after 20 minutes if it hadn't been for the Mildenhall keeper and som of the shots had had a little more power to them. However, as the game progressed and Downham didn't make the most of their chances, Mildenhall started to grow into the game. Infact, if it wasn't for a brilliant save from Congreve, who is now the third keeper to play for Downham this season, it could have been Mildenhall going in ahead at the break. However, the first half finished with both teams failing to score and Downham were probably the team who could feel most aggrieved by not finishing their chances. The second half saw Mildenhall have a lot more of the ball, but their best chances seemed to be made from mistakes by the Downham defence. For Downham Charlie Royle...