A magnificent victory on Tuesday evening coming back from a goal down at half time to win  3-1 at full time against higher placed opponents will have done our confidence the power of good.

We travelled down to Phoenix Sports home ground to take part in the replay of the FA Cup preliminary round on Tuesday evening.  The home side probably thought that they had done enough to get a reply after the previous Saturdays goalless draw and were looking confident to go through; how wrong that was.

We made a change to our midfield for this game with Fabio Nunes replacing the injured Carlos Polo-Infante, we also showed out attacking intent by playing two up front with Carl Oblitey partnering Will Kendall.

The first half game began much in the same way as the game on the previous Saturday with no side in the real ascendency.  We began to grow into the game and were very unlucky to concede from a corner midway through the first period; it was a poor goal to give away with some lapse marking at the back post.  Again we responded well and finished the half much stronger and had a golden opportunity to equalise but the chance agonisingly went past the post.  HT 1-0. To Phoenix Sports

We again started well in the second half but did not create many chances of note, but neither did our opposition.  We could see that our superior fitness level was taking its toll on our opponents and we deservedly got back on level terms in the 77th minute when the game began to turn into the ‘Will Kendall’ show.  He finished smartly after a short slide rule pass that split the Phoenix defence from Carl Oblitey.  Within a few minutes we were ahead after the referee adjudged that Luke Miller had been fouled as he cut into the penalty box; Will Kendall stepped up and put the spot kick in the top right hand corner of the net; we had turned the game on its head.  We were not finished there as two minutes later we made the game safe after that man ‘Mr Kendall’ took advantage of a moment of defensive uncertainty to slot the ball home from around the penalty spot – the team celebrated as a whole this match winning strike.  There was still over 7 minutes left and a good amount of injury time to go, but we saw that out with ease so progress to the next round on Saturday 17th August with another home tie against higher placed opponents in Hayes and Yeading Football Club.  Make no mistake we were the better team over the two games and throughly deserved to go through.

Before we get too excited about this ‘mouth watering’ tie, we open up our league season on Saturday when we play Guildford City at home with a 3pm kick off; we follow that quickly with another home game on Tuesday evening 745pm kick off against Jersey Balls.  Why not come on down to our new ground at Kings George’s Field where there is plenty of parking available and support your local club; it will be very much appreciated by the team.