Achieving anything of note in football requires a balance between defence and attack, and the Bucks struck the right balance in this game. They combined some pleasing possession
TELFORD COPYRIGHT Mike Sheridan - GOAL. Riccardo Dinanga of AFC Telford United scores to make it 2-1 during the Southern League Premier Central fixture between AFC Telford United and Harborough Town at Bowden Park on Saturday, October 19, 2024.
Wilkin made one change to the side that drew 1-1 with Alvechurch in midweek. Rhys Hilton dropped to the substitutes’ bench, and defender Orrin Pendley returned from an injury layoff. Wilkin admitted that it was a desire to play three centre-halves that rubber-stamped hopes they had of maintaining that feel-good factor faltered as the Bucks quickly got the measure of them.
Harborough’s 3G playing surface is in good condition and was playing consistently, allowing the Bucks to move the ball with fluidity. Piggott and Moore, who should both reach the Dinanga tried to catch Taylor out, collecting a throw-in sent into the box and swivelling to fire an effort at the Bees no.1 from an acute angle. However, the Bees responded, and their threat from set-pieces was underlined when, from a corner won by O’Sullivan, Pendley had to clear in his six-yard box from a header that was on target.
Moore then burst through a static Bees’ defensive line, playing too high, onto Dinanga’s through ball. He looked set to net the second but perhaps hesitated slightly, and the ball caught a recovering Bees defender on his heel to take him out of his shooting lane. Dinanga remained a threat, but he was unfairly halted by Williams, who was booked. The Bucks followers' claims for a red card were optimistic, as Dinanga was too wide and too far from the goal for it to be classed as a scoring opportunity. The net result was a free-kickTonge’s greater energy posed a different threat, and he went to ground in the box under a Bucks challenge, although he also appeared to stand on the ball.
The Bees made multiple substitutions to keep the momentum, and the Bucks were now being bombarded at every opportunity. It paid dividends in the seventy-fourth minute when the Bucks conceded a penalty as they sought to repel another set-piece. What referee Mountain saw was unclear, possibly a handball, and O’Sullivan smashed the ball past Hall from twelve yards, the keeper barely able to dive, such was its power.
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