Witton Reserves host Workington on Thursday night with an 8pm kick off.
for those of you missing WP already this is the last game of the season, before the reserves bow out of the Lancashire League.
Just to reiterate, kick off is 8pm to allow Workington to arrive after a long journey.
Entry is £2 through the social club; kids are free.
The bar is open, so come down and see some football for the final time this season B)
Reminder for tonight :goal
Have I mentioned that there’s a reserve game tonight?
Earlier, I asked Megan Fox if there would be goals.
ALBION RESERVES 3 WORKINGTON RESERVES 2
The Visitors’ second half rally just not enough in the end. Report by Paul Armstrong (Workington AFC website)
Trailing by three goals and looking a beaten, demoralised side at the break, Reds came storming back in the second half and were a shade unlucky not to salvage a point. Uncharacteristically out of sorts from the off, they were two down after just six minutes and couldn’t get going at all. They were outfought, outmanoeuvred and outclassed in a one sided opening forty five minutes and could have conceded even more. But credit their spirit and application on the restart, as it was they who dominated making the previously invincible Albion look quite ordinary.
Reds forced two early corners, which were wasted, with Albion opening the scoring following their first attack after just two minutes. Henry Blundell’s cross wasn’t dealt with and Connor Gregory capitalised to score with ease.
They doubled their lead after six minutes when Connor Gregory, the Albion manager’s son, scored his second – converting at the far post after more incompetent defending from Reds.
Lewis Renvoize and Jamie Street both went close to scoring for ragged Reds, but it was Witton who grabbed the third goal of the evening in the thirty eighth minute. They broke swiftly, after defending a corner, culminating in Craig Goulden getting the better of Reds’ Nicky Davidson before passing to the unmarked Henry Blundell who smashed the ball into the net.
It was a different story after the break following a few stern words from manager, Dave Rodgie. He demanded a second half response and the lads obliged. Jonny Murray broke clear on the right but his well struck shot rattled the post before rebounding to safety. They did reduce the arrears after forty seven minutes with a debut goal from Renvoize. He rose high to meet a Lee Woolf cross from the right to score with a header which thundered in off the cross bar.
The fight back gathered momentum after seventy minutes when skipper Jamie Street firmly headed Tom Barclay’s cross into the top corner of the Albion net past the stranded Callum Spencer. Jonny Murray then squandered a great chance when he lost control of the ball after gliding past Spencer with ease.
Albion almost fluked a fourth when Ashley Wells’ centre from the right brushed the face of the cross bar with Nigel McCombie beaten. It looked as though Reds had salvaged an unlikely point, when an Albion defender conceded an own-goal after being pressured by Murray. The celebrations were cut short on the intervention of an assistant referee’s flag, as the move which led to the goal started with a foul throw.
Tempers became frayed in the last few minutes as Reds battled to salvage something but Albion held firm to secure the points.
Witton Albion: Callum Spencer, Saul Lomax-Newton ( Cameron Cooper), Dion Battes, Jack Johnson, James Faint, Richard Barnes, Craig Goulden ( Ashley Wells), Jamie Weeder, Connor Gregory (Calum Burleigh), Henry Blundell, Daniel King.
Workington: McCombie, Simpson, Duggan, Barclay, Street, Hebson, Davidson, Murray-Jones, Woolf (Robertson), Murray, Renvoize.
Referee Mr J P Kenny