Thursday 17 Sept 2009
Parc Coed-y-Nant
Pentwyn Dynamos 3 - 2 Rhiwbina
Swabey
Gibbins
Foulkes
A close encounter saw little goalmouth action in the first half, with battles being contested mainly in the middle of the park. Charlie Foulkes and Caine Morse were holding their own and all was pretty even, until 5 mins before half time - when Daniel Gibbins played a slide-rule pass through to the jet-healed Daniel Swabey he cooly drew the goalkeeper and rifled the ball into the back of the net.
Rhiwbina didnt take this lying down and came straight back at us from the start of the second half, levelling inside the first few mins. The parity was shortlived though as we came back at them from the restart - with Christopher Viney taking the ball down the right wing and sending a teasing ball into the box. Rhiwbina failed to clear and the ball dropped to Daniel Swabey, who shot forcing a great save from the keeper. The balled spilled out to Daniel Gibbins, who drilled the ball into the bottom left hand corner.
Once again Rhiwbina came at us and our defensive trio of Callum Patten, Lloyd Richards and Owen Evans blocked, tackled and closed down to keep us in the lead, keeper Bradley Preece playing almost as a sweeper at times to thwart anything that did get beyond them.
We rode the storm and with 15 mins left the ball fell to Charlie Foulkes on the left flank, he looked up , cut inside and curled the ball into the top right hand corner from all of 25 yards - 3-1!
Rhwbina didnt give up - they kept coming at us and with 5 mins left on the clock, Foulkes was adjudged - Harshly! - to have handled the ball. What folowed was an outstanding free kick from 30 yards straight into the top left hand corner, that gave Preece no chance. 3-2 .
The final 5 mins were constant pressure but we held on to win against one of the A division's top teams.
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