League: 35s Junior League Cup

Dynamos vs Frenchay Legends

Dynamos Report:

Second round of the cup and another home match. Happily the weather was much improved this week! Frenchay started off competitively and it was clear this wasn’t going to be an easy game for Dynamos. Pretty even for the first 20 minutes as both teams figured each other out. The first goal was always going to be an important one in this game and it was Dynamos that got it. Some more clinical finishing and a fine penalty from Adam saw us go into the break a few goals up. The second half was also a fairly close affair. Joe scored a delightful goal with his kids in attendance! Credit to Frenchay who never stopped playing and got a goal they deserved. We wish them all the best for their season. A hard fought match played in the right spirit.

Lion FC vs Red Star 35s

Lion Report:

Late winner for Red Star and weak squad for us due to Welsh lock down, have lost 4 players that live the other side of the bridge :o(

Red Star Report:

Having both benefited from a bye in the first round, both Lion and Red Star came into this tie chomping at the bit for a taste of cup glory. It was an evenly-matched encounter from the start and it was the goalies who helped break the deadlock, with Red Star first presenting Lion with a tap-in to take the lead, and then returning the favour a few minutes late by failing to clear trouble on the edge of the box and giving Tom Sewell the opportunity to equalise, albeit from a tight angle. It was tit-for-tat for the remainder of the game, first Lion took the lead with a strong finish, but with twenty minutes to go Red Star levelled things up and capitalising on that momentum were able to continue piling on the pressure and score a third. It was one of those games which could have easily gone the other way, but it’s Red Star who look forward to a QF appearance in the cup. I want to thank Lion FC for being excellent opposition to play against but also very Corinthian in the way they go about things – I offered them a walkover in Sept when we couldn’t put a team together for this fixture and they graciously decided it was better to rearrange so that both teams could play more football.

Pill Utd vs Filton High Vets

Filton Report:

With dew on the grass & some early autumn sun in the air a great cup match was in the offing.  This fixture also happened to be the reverse of the league fixture from a fortnight ago, and it lived up to the billing. The game started competitively, with Filton probing through some speculative early efforts. That said, Pill Utd raced into an early lead with some pretty decent finishing from their number 13. Who knew Steve Stone was still playing!
Pill looked quite comfortable going into half time, but as the cliche goes, it was definitely a game of two halves.   Be it the sending off for Pill or the much-improved performance by Filton; the game looked like it was heading towards a nervy last 10 minutes & possibly even penalties as Filton took complete control & clawed their way back to 5-3, with 2 very well taken headers from corners as well as a confidently converted penalty.  Arguably on a different day & with goal-line technology it could & should have gone to 5-4.  Pill went on & put the game to bed with a well finished breakaway goal in the last 2 minutes to make it 6-3.
No doubt Pill Utd will be incredibly disappointed & probably quite embarrassed by the actions of their number 12, rightly sent off for an awfully cynical foul after having persistently tested the referee’s patience from minute 1. A sour note on what was largely a well mannered & competitive cup game.
There are a large number of games left this season and hopefully for other opponents, Pill’s number 12 will rediscover the Corinthian spirit & values the Casual’s league is meant to be built on.
Good luck to Pill on their cup run.

Backwell Ath Vets vs WCMB Avonmouth

WCMB report:
Good 7-2 victory for us, 3 early goals killed the game we caught backwell by surprise. Very competitive game played in a great spirit.

Goals- Tony Beecham, Andy Gurney x2, Craig Green, Darren Harvey x2, Ashley Bennett.