Chance for Gresley on 90+1 minutes - Witton’s Anthony Brown prevents a certain equaliser with a great block.
GOALLLLL
Latest Score from The NetDec Stadium:
Witton Albion 3 Gresley FC 1.
Bradley Bauress on 90+2 minutes - makes certain of the points.
Yellow cards
Witton’s Steven Tames on 90+3 minutes.
Gresley’s Jordan Wakeling on 90+3 minutes.
Full Time Score from The NetDec Stadium:
Witton Albion 3 Gresley FC 1.
Stretching the unbeaten home record to fifteen games.
Great result. Also nice to see Newcastle loosing to Stocksbridge PS
Take the points but that has got to be the worst I’ve seen us play this season.
However that is the sign of a good team, play badly and still pick up three points.
Really missed Hopley today , his hold up play and ability to involve others was Evidently absent. The ball just kept coming back giving our back four no break.
As for the sending off ,he really didn’t leave the referee much choice. I actually thought the referee had a good game
Good to see Tames back
There 5 should have been booked in the first half for a reckless challenge, only got a talking to and then did it again so got away with a yellow. Ref was poor again.
WHS.
We seemed to go AWOL after scoring early goals and then let Gresley back into the game.The score flattered us but in the end 3 points is all that matters. We played like we haven’t had a game in months rather than weeks, missed the energy of Heywood and the guile of Hopley. The sending off was unnecessary and another influential player misses a game. Hope that doesn’t come back to bite us.
That said, the team dug in and that team spirit shone through in the final 20 mins, we never let go and never gave up. Last year we would have lost this game - and that’s the difference in this team.
Yes winning when you are playing poorly is a nice knack to have, missing Hopley and Prince for sure and Tames made a difference when he came on, Tola, Noone and Hinchliffe really not impressing at the moment and with Williams not fully match fit it seems a struggle,but well played Gresley they had a few players to catch the eye, the no 7 for sure, but if we can keep winning and then get the missing players back we should be ok, would be great to have our best 11 fit and available. my MOM Brad Bauress all action and 2 goals and closely followed by Michael Wilson who I thought had a good game. notr memwerable but 3 important points UTA
Completely agree with all points made by CJ. Although Wittons performance wasn’t great I though the contest was a good competitive one. These are the games at the end of the season that can get you promotion when you have pinched the points. I don’t think it matters how the referee performs because they always seem to get a bad review on here. I personally thought he did very well and probably one the best refereeing performances of the season at wincham park.
Nice to be discussing football for a change, rather than who can see furthest in the fog? or what guess how wide the frozen bit of pitch is.Credit to Gresley for getting back into it after two early goals against them. Witton did their best to make the game more interesting, especially Paul Williams…veryangry A lot of talk about missing Rob or Prince, but I wonder where we’d be without Brad not just for his skill with the ball, his crucial goals but the tracking back and the amount of ground he covers all over the pitch.
tbh yes the Ref did ok, Williams can have no complaints a bit silly for such an experienced player ! so cannot blame the ref, the 5 was lucky to a degree but other than that Ref had a decent game.
After we went 2-0 I thought we needed someone to get the team to “Start again” but there appeared little leadership in that department. Hardly heard a word said by anyone. On the bench all that seemed to be happening was the management tearing their hair out because the players had “lost their way”. We needed a leader to grab the team by the scruff of its neck an give it a good shake but it didn’t happen and in the end we were lucky to hold on.
WHS.
The reason we are disappointed with today’s performance is the fact that this side has given us so many outstanding performances this season. At the end of the day we didn’t play well but we got three points.
It’s what champions or promotion winning sides have done for years.
To reiterate on my previous post the referee had a decent game today.
Brad Bauress has got us got a few points this season almost single handedly. Like today. Top, top player we are lucky to have him.
Not a great performance today by any means but another 3 points on the board. We’ll be there. UTA
from Gresley …
Gresley So Unlucky!
It’s been said before that football can be a cruel game and it certainly can be on this showing.
Gresley made the trip up to Witton Albion on the back of a mini revival of two draws and a win and they should have extended that run by at least another draw.
Except for a calamitous 6-minute spell at the start of the game Gresley went on to dominate the proceeding spoilt only by their finishing which, if improved, would have seen the visitors two or three goals to the good by the end of the match.
Gresley manager Damion Beckford-Quailey had the luxury of being able to name the same starting eleven that went so close to beating Belper.
However, his side looked as if they were still on the coach as they were caught cold going two goals down with just 6 minutes on the clock.
On two minutes a pass in midfield from Lucas Harrison was easily cut out and Witton were soon threatening on the edge of the Gresley area. The ball was sent forward and Gresley keeper and Jordan Wakeling appeared to go for the same ball with neither successful allowing Tomola Omotola to stroke the ball into the empty net.
Gresley almost conceded again a minute later when Peet managed to parry a shot away and made a follow up save from the rebound.
The visitors did fall behind three minutes later and it was another poor goal to concede. The ball was only half cleared out to Bradley Bauress on the right and he struck a shot from distance which flew past Peet and into the bottom corner. Whether it was meant or Peet thought it was going wide either way Gresley were two down before they had chance to take a breath.
Gradually, Gresley began to come back into the game and from then on they were easily the better of the two sides creating chance after chance unfortunately not taken.
A good move down the pitch ended with Lucas Harrison hitting a good low shot which home keeper Daniel Roberts somehow blocked with his legs. Tendai Chitiza then beat the defender down the flank but his cross went agonisingly behind Matt Melbourne charging into the area.
A rare attempt on the Gresley goal came when a corner from the left by Paul Williams came to Bauress but his volley just cleared the bar.
Gresley went close again with three minutes of the first half remaining when a deep free kick by Harrison seemed to be heading out beyond the far post but Jamie Barrett almost caught Roberts napping as the keeper had decided the ball was flying out but Barrett nipped in but his shot hit the outside of the far post.
Another good run down the left produced Gresley’s goal. The ball was played across the area and eventually out to Reece Morris who took one touch before firing a low shot into the far bottom corner.
Gresley went close to drawing level within seconds of the second half starting when Chitiza cut in from the right but his shot was saved by Roberts.
Albion had a chance minutes later when a cross from the right by Anthony Gardner was almost met by Jamie Hinchcliffe sliding in but Peet bravely dived forward and held onto the ball.
Gresley were pressing forward looking for another goal and Chitiza tried again but his shot was straight at Roberts.
Chitiza had an even better chance on 56 minutes. A cross from the right by Melbourne found Chitiza but he managed to scoop his shot over the bar as he ran into the box.
Still more chances came and went for the visitors with Barrett heading Leandro Browne’s corner over the bar.
On 72 minutes Albion were reduced to ten men when Williams was shown a second yellow card followed immediately by a red.
Gresley sensed their chance to grab something from the game they’d largely dominated and Browne almost supplied the perfect response threading a ball through to Chitiza in the area but the final shot went wide.
Melbourne was next to have a chance but his shot, from the edge of the area, whistled just over the bar.
Gresley went even closer on 90 minutes. Another corner from Browne flew into the area but Josh Egginton blazed his effort also over the bar.
The Gresley manager had brought on Ryan Walker in place of and Barrett, and pushed him up front looking for that elusive goal but with his side pressing Albion back they got caught with a sucker punch in the second minute of added on time.
Totally against the run of play a long clearance down the left was played into the middle to Bauress who curled a shot into the bottom far corner giving the score-line an unjust margin.
Most supporters have suggested that their team had, at some time, been unlucky but in this case the travelling Gresley contingence could say it without contradiction with seen some of the home officials saying that the better side had lost today.
That may be of little consolation but the work rate and determination from the Gresley side was clear to see by those hardy souls who had made the trip and their appreciation of what they’d witnessed from their side was most welcome by the players and management
Bradley Bauress has now scored in six successive games and has 13 for the season. Three in double figures - Rob, Tol & Brad. Pity the one against Carlton didn’t count or Rob’s against Boston for that matter.
I dont think it was as one sided as Gresley portray but they could have had a point for sure, I think one of the reasons for our performance was the lack of fight from our front 3 players and the inability to hold the ball up we lost the fight so many times and lost possession far to easily meaning the ball coming back at us all the time, I also felt Gresley exposed the space behind our attacking full backs quite well so credit them for that, once Tames came whilst clearly not match fit his aggression and ability to hold up play by keeping possession made a difference something Tola has to learn if he is to develop as a player. with Tames, Hopley and Heywood on the field we are are very different animal. UTA
I agree CJ but I do think we needed some vocal leadership when things were going awry.
WHS.
[quote=“WHS” post=68319]I agree CJ but I do think we needed some vocal leadership when things were going awry.
WHS.[/quote]
Gards is the captain, he needs to show more vocal leadership IMHO