Surrey Cup v Lingfield

[Grass Bank]

A great win tonight.

I only got there with 25 minutes left and it was 0-0. Then in the last minute Lingfield were awarded a penalty and we had a player sent off. The penalty was missed.

Into extra time and mid way through the 1st period a great ball found Scott Crow clean through and he finished well.

In the 2nd half of extra time Lingfield had a player sent off as well.

And thus it finished. Rather amusingly though the Lingfield coaching staff decided to have a go at the ref and assistants for their defeat.

Considering what happened in the 90th minutes I am not sure the blame lays anywhere but with them.

Well done to the boys.

[elnino]

A fantastic result for the ACYL team, consisting of only 2 players in their final year of youth football, and 6 15 year olds playing the full 120 minutes.

We played a more attacking style of football and were very unlucky not to win the game in normal time having had several chances, only for their keeper to make several good saves.

The fitness levels of some of these young lads is actually ridiculous, with people still sprinting 50 yards in the 120th minute to get back and defend for the team.

The pleasing thing from our point of view is these lads' willingness to learn, and take on board what we say. After going down to 10 men for extra time we took the the game to Lingfield and deservedly took the lead after Matthew's defence-splitting pass was calmly slotted home by Scott. The boys then professionally saw the game out, using the ball well and preventing Lingfield from any meaningful attacks on George's goal.

Very pleased with the result, absolutely delighted with the performance.