Get Ya Rooks Off!



After beating Woking 3-2 at home, then losing 4-3 away to Histon and then drawing 2-2 at home with Kidderminster the game between Burton Albion and Lewes always promised to be a goal fest and we weren't disappointed.



Burton started off as if they meant business and nobody was surprised when Greg Pearson fired the Brewers ahead after just 10 minutes with his cleverly picked out goal, which was his 5th already this season. However, the lead didn't last for long and Scott Taylor levelled things due to a defensive error on 15 minutes. Another Burton mistake led to Lewes going 2-1 up just 4 minutes later, when Adam Yates, who is on loan from Morecambe fell over and handled the ball in the box. Michael standing levelled from the spot.



Nigel Clough, the Burton manager has said that although he is happy that Burton seem to be able to get goals from anywhere, he isn't happy with the number of errors the team are making defensively and today would have been no different. At the same time it must be remembered that the goalkeeper, Kevin Poole is 45 years old and Darren Stride, who was playing centre back used to play centre midfield and Aaron Webster at left back was always a winger in the past, so this predicament of scoring but leaking goals might be understandable in this context.



Cloughie probably would have been more upset though if Adam yates hadn't made ammends just 4 minutes later on 23 minutes, when his inch perfect cross was met by man of the match, Keith Gilroy to slot home the equaliser. And that is the way things stood until half time.



Burton looked a lot stonger after the break and the midfield seemed to be giving Lewes the run around. On 60 minutes Burton recovered the lead when Aaron Webster headed home from a corner. On 71 minutes Shaun Harrad, who had come on to replace Greg Pearson at half time celebrated being called up for the England C team with a goal after Gilroy had jinxed down the left wing and put in another perfect cross.



At 4-2 you might have thought things would calm down, but everyone spurred on Burton to score again. I can't have been alone in feeling that they might just let Lewes back into this game. In fact I'm sure I wasn't as Nigel Clough said much the same in his post-match press conference. Therefore, it came as a great relief when in the last minute Aaron Webster scored another header, this time a diving header which went off the inside of the post to make the final score Burton 5 Lewes 2.



The 2 pictures show the Burton ground before kick off, but you didn't expect me to take photos during such an enthralling game, did you?

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