Game Came to Life in Final 30 Minutes

Norton Woodseats 1 Denaby United 3

Despite the fact that Denaby deserved to win, their away Yorkshire League game with Norton Wood seats, it was a disappointing match, with neither side showing the play they are capable of from the start it was a story of good moves ended too far from the goal area or in untidy goalmouth skirmishes.

Denaby moved straight into the attack but failed to score from two free kicks and a corner. There was very little shooting power on either side, Norton’s Scott headed the ball goalwards, Collingwood touched it out, only to have it shot straight back at him from point-blank range – straight into his arms. Denaby’s Islip was trip was racing towards an open goal, but Cox failed to score with the penalty kick.

The patchy play continued until the final 30 minutes. Centre forward Kelly saw an opening in one of the all too frequent goalmouth tangles, and made a clean shot that put Denaby one up and seemed to put a little life into the side.

Own Goal

Norton’s only goal came when Foster made a bad pass back to Collinwood and put the ball through his own goal, but from then on it was Denaby all the way.

Right-winger Smith beat two men and centred onto the head of Phillips who nodded the ball neatly home, putting Denaby 2-1 up in the 70^th minute. Five minutes later Kelly beat three men in a superb solo run, dodged death around goalkeeper Davies to shoot into an empty net.

Team: Collingwood: Foster, Cox; Collins, Williams, Whant; Smith, Larder, Kelly, Islip, Phillips