Out of the cup and managerless

Yesterday Ely City took on Stewarts & Lloyds Corby in the first qualifying round of the FA Cup. After the disappointment of going out of the Vase on Tuesday Ely needed to pick themselves up and sharpen up in front of goal. Unfortunately it was Stewarts & Lloyds who took the lead on 10 minutes after their centre forward burst through the Ely defence. Ely had the chance to make ammends just 2 minutes later when they were given a penalty for a foul on Mark Johnstone. Smith stepped up to take the penalty, but the keeper saved.

It was another frustrating game for Ely with a lack of ideas in front of goal undermining their chances of making progress. Several changes were made to the team who lost to Gorleston on Tuesday but the main problem seemed to be the tactics of hoofing the ball up field and getting as many bodies in the box as possible and at the same time by commiting too many people forward left gaping holes at the back that Stewarts and Lloyds could possibly have hit on the break.

In the second half Stewarts and Lloyds had decent chances to score on 54 and 57 minutes, but the centre forward had forgotten his scoring boots in the second half. Unfortunately Ely still couldn't come up with any ideas either and the game finall finished 1-0.

Man of the match was probably Adam Murray who played well in midfield and at centre half when he swapped places with Simon Warren.

After the match Dennis Lightning resigned as manager of the Robins leaving Alan Allsop in charge for the time being.

Comments

Richard c said…
This is a good report on our match and very fair but Adam Dalby came on as a sub with 15 mins to go i think you are talking about Adam Murrey, maybe you shouold tell the Ely standard to copy your views of the game as they always make it up as they go along !
September 14, 2010 at 2:12 PM
Neil said…
Cheers for the comments and sorry about the mistake with the Adams. I've corrected the post now
September 14, 2010 at 5:47 PM
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