Saturday, February 24, 2007
Midfield Dynamos Power Old Boys to Victory
BGSOB 7-0 Golborne II
Cooke (6)
Hillary (16, 29)
Aitken (18)
Waywell (37, 42)
Foster (57)
The Old Boys continued their return to form by firing seven goals past Golborne on Saturday, thanks to an excellent midfield display.
Bury opened their account in the sixth minute, when striker Cooke scored his fifth of the season. The Bury front man was on hand to coolly fire past the visiting keeper, following excellent wide play on the Bury right hand side.
The Old Boys settled into a good rhythm and produced excellent passing moves throughout the first half. Hillary, Matthews, Larmett, Aitken and Waywell all combined effectively in midfield to create chance after chance for the home side.
With such pressure being created, the home side were winning a substantial amount of short corners, and it was from one of these set pieces that they increased their lead. For the second home game in succession Ian Hillary found the net with a powerful strike, with sixteen minutes gone.
Just two minutes later another short corner produced Bury’s third goal of the afternoon. This time Aitken took his chance as his shot found the bottom corner to give The Old Boys a comfortable lead.
Bury took this opportunity to experiment with changes in personnel, and as a result lost some of the fluency from their game. However, with six minutes to half time, a fourth goal was scored with Hillary grabbing his second of the day. A short corner routine appeared to have broken down, but the Bury midfielder showed excellent craft and skill to create space for himself. Having done the hard work Hillary fired an unstoppable drive into the net.
With clear instructions to keep the pressure up and to keep the passing game going, The Old Boys came out for the second half looking for more. Two minutes in, Golborne old boy, Mark Waywell found the net against his former club, flicking in another short corner.
With Larmett and Matthews combining superbly the home side continued to press the visitors back. Somewhat inevitably it was from another cross from the right that Waywell fired in the sixth goal of the game. Following a good save from the Golborne keeper, Waywell was the first to react as he fired the ball home.
The scoring was rounded off in the fifty-seventh minute with a superb team goal. Again Hillary, Larmett and Matthews were the architects as the ball was delivered into Foster’s path. With a superb finish into the bottom corner, Foster scored his second of the season, and the seventh of the day.
Although Bury went on to create more chances, no further goals materialised and credit must go to the under strength visitors, who tried their best to attack at any opportunity and kept the home defence on its toes.
Squad: Titlow, S. Shiekh, T. Sheikh, Cheung, Foster, Aitken, Matthews, Hillary, Larmett, Waywell, Cooke, Ainscow, Butler, Berry, Powers, McManus.
MOM: Matthews and Larmett
Cooke (6)
Hillary (16, 29)
Aitken (18)
Waywell (37, 42)
Foster (57)
The Old Boys continued their return to form by firing seven goals past Golborne on Saturday, thanks to an excellent midfield display.
Bury opened their account in the sixth minute, when striker Cooke scored his fifth of the season. The Bury front man was on hand to coolly fire past the visiting keeper, following excellent wide play on the Bury right hand side.
The Old Boys settled into a good rhythm and produced excellent passing moves throughout the first half. Hillary, Matthews, Larmett, Aitken and Waywell all combined effectively in midfield to create chance after chance for the home side.
With such pressure being created, the home side were winning a substantial amount of short corners, and it was from one of these set pieces that they increased their lead. For the second home game in succession Ian Hillary found the net with a powerful strike, with sixteen minutes gone.
Just two minutes later another short corner produced Bury’s third goal of the afternoon. This time Aitken took his chance as his shot found the bottom corner to give The Old Boys a comfortable lead.
Bury took this opportunity to experiment with changes in personnel, and as a result lost some of the fluency from their game. However, with six minutes to half time, a fourth goal was scored with Hillary grabbing his second of the day. A short corner routine appeared to have broken down, but the Bury midfielder showed excellent craft and skill to create space for himself. Having done the hard work Hillary fired an unstoppable drive into the net.
With clear instructions to keep the pressure up and to keep the passing game going, The Old Boys came out for the second half looking for more. Two minutes in, Golborne old boy, Mark Waywell found the net against his former club, flicking in another short corner.
With Larmett and Matthews combining superbly the home side continued to press the visitors back. Somewhat inevitably it was from another cross from the right that Waywell fired in the sixth goal of the game. Following a good save from the Golborne keeper, Waywell was the first to react as he fired the ball home.
The scoring was rounded off in the fifty-seventh minute with a superb team goal. Again Hillary, Larmett and Matthews were the architects as the ball was delivered into Foster’s path. With a superb finish into the bottom corner, Foster scored his second of the season, and the seventh of the day.
Although Bury went on to create more chances, no further goals materialised and credit must go to the under strength visitors, who tried their best to attack at any opportunity and kept the home defence on its toes.
Squad: Titlow, S. Shiekh, T. Sheikh, Cheung, Foster, Aitken, Matthews, Hillary, Larmett, Waywell, Cooke, Ainscow, Butler, Berry, Powers, McManus.
MOM: Matthews and Larmett
