Ely and Deeping - still no win for the Robins
Ely continued their pre-season preparations today against Deeping Rangers of the United Counties League. Ely continued to play well, but were again unable to get a win in a friendly match. Let's just hope their luck starts to change when it matters.
Last season Deeping finished in a similar position in the UCL to Ely in the ECL. So, it should at least on paper have been an evenly challenged affair. However, Deeping are more used to finishing higher in their league and have spent a bit of cash over the summer. Ely have stuck with what they had last year with the addition of Kenny Smith and Austen Diaper, who is making a big step up from Long Stanton, there were also several Ely players missing today due to one reason or another.
That said the teams were evenly matched. There were few chances in the first half an hour with both keepers having saves to make, but neither of them being overly worried. Rangers took the lead though on 32 minutes after a comedy of errors in the Ely defence let them through. The rest of the first half continued in much the same vain and at half time it was Ely 0 Deeping 1.
Ely cae out firing on all cylinders in the second half and were unlucky not to be on equal terms on 53 minutes when the Deeping goalkeeper pulled off an amazing save the rebound fell for Diaper, but he hit the post.
After more to and fro-ing between the teams Ely finally got an equaliser on 69 minutes when Tom Beech latched on to some sloppy defending to round the keeper and put the ball in the back of the net.
The equaliser seemed to be the tonic that Ely needed as they started to dominate the game. On 78 minutes Beech was pushed over in the area and he put the penalty away in emphatic fashion to make it Ely 2 Deeping 1.
It looked like Ely were going to win the game, but it wasn't to be when on 87 minutes one of the Deeping midfielders decided to have a shot from a good 40 yards out. It looked to me like it was going hopelessly wide and it must have looked the same to Lee Pacey in the Ely goal who didn't move. However, somehow the ball went into the bottom corner of the goal to make the final score 2-2.
Last season Deeping finished in a similar position in the UCL to Ely in the ECL. So, it should at least on paper have been an evenly challenged affair. However, Deeping are more used to finishing higher in their league and have spent a bit of cash over the summer. Ely have stuck with what they had last year with the addition of Kenny Smith and Austen Diaper, who is making a big step up from Long Stanton, there were also several Ely players missing today due to one reason or another.
That said the teams were evenly matched. There were few chances in the first half an hour with both keepers having saves to make, but neither of them being overly worried. Rangers took the lead though on 32 minutes after a comedy of errors in the Ely defence let them through. The rest of the first half continued in much the same vain and at half time it was Ely 0 Deeping 1.
Ely cae out firing on all cylinders in the second half and were unlucky not to be on equal terms on 53 minutes when the Deeping goalkeeper pulled off an amazing save the rebound fell for Diaper, but he hit the post.
After more to and fro-ing between the teams Ely finally got an equaliser on 69 minutes when Tom Beech latched on to some sloppy defending to round the keeper and put the ball in the back of the net.
The equaliser seemed to be the tonic that Ely needed as they started to dominate the game. On 78 minutes Beech was pushed over in the area and he put the penalty away in emphatic fashion to make it Ely 2 Deeping 1.
It looked like Ely were going to win the game, but it wasn't to be when on 87 minutes one of the Deeping midfielders decided to have a shot from a good 40 yards out. It looked to me like it was going hopelessly wide and it must have looked the same to Lee Pacey in the Ely goal who didn't move. However, somehow the ball went into the bottom corner of the goal to make the final score 2-2.
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