Bugger of a journey back, what with missing the bus to Walsall by 2 minutes and train from Birmingham cancelled, finally got home at 9-30 but well worth the effort after that result. First visit to Chasetown and I really liked their ground. Home too late for Strictly but saw enough dancing as Chasetown waltzed through our defence unchallenged for their goal. Would have happily settled for a point then but four Witton goals in quick succession had me thinking we may scrape a win here. Less travelling next saturday just the one car no trains or buses, hoping for a decent result on tuesday.
From Chasetown …
Inside the first two minutes, Chasetown keeper Curtis Pond was at full stretch to keep out an effort from Steven Tames.
Defences and midfields dominated in an evenly matched top of the table clash in a stale first half.
On the stroke of half time, Chasetown were a whisker away from the opener when James Dance was denied by Dan Roberts on the line after a Mitch Piggon downward header.
With just over an hour played, the breakthrough goal came when Josh Ruff slipped the ball to Dance who slid the ball home for his 10th league goal of the season.
Chasetown were denied what seemed to be a clear handball in attack and the visitors controversially broke on the counter attack and Prince Haywood scored a peach of a goal from long range over Pond.
Within a minute, Witton took a shock lead when Tames stole in to guide a shot beyond the Chase keeper.
The game turned right on its head and Haywood waltzed through the home defence to set up Robert Hopley to net at the near post.
In a dramatic turnaround substitute Karl Noon made it 4.1 as the home defence was wide open.
Chasetown: Pond, Curley, Wood, Slater (Till, 28 mins), Miles, Brown (Kiembi, 74 mins), Thompson, Langston (Rooney, 79 mins), Piggon, Dance, Ruff
Another great Witton awayday, first half thought we shaded it and should have been in front but for some bad finishing, Chasetown were a pretty dirty lot and the Ref let them get away with some pretty heavy challenges, second half we were quiet initially and they took the lead with one of there players dancing through 3 or 4 challenges before he got through, a change of tactics with Tames going wide and Omatola more up front seemed to give us a better balance and we went after the game ! 20 minutes later 4-1 as we blitzed them, Prince with a lovely run cut inside and bent his shot into the top corner -unstoppable, then we looked superb as we cut them to ribbons, and 3 more decent goals ! given we were missing Williams, Owens and Brown and that Chasetown were above us before KO then this was another stunning display and result from the team that keeps on giving - magic UTA
Well done lads and to those who made the journey. “ONWARD AND UPWARDS”!!
WHS.
GREAT win by the lads ! , but let’s not get carried away , we must not put pressure on the lads ! The trophy is just a welcome ( money ) bonus , Our priority is surely promotion ! .
Of course promotion has to be the main aim but the money emanating from the Trophy run helps fund the title challenge, the more rounds we win the easier it will be to get in new players when they are needed, money talks!
WHS.