Ilminster Town Reserves
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Sat 02 Sep 2017
Ilminster Town Football Club
Ilminster Town Reserves
K Lisney (20'), R Mustchin (30'), P Gold (35'), J Barry (88')
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Netherbury Reserves
Colts Start Season With Cup Win

Colts Start Season With Cup Win

Daniel Haines2 Sep 2017 - 21:07
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Ilminster Town Colts 4 - 1 Netherbury Reserves - Daisy Hutchings Cup

Ilminster Town Colts commenced their season by welcoming Netherbury Reserves in the Daisy Hutchings Cup.

The Colts have had an exciting pre-season with several good performances, and they have welcomed a number of new / returning signings, the side for this match was therefore very different from last season, with a number of previous regulars now representing the higher teams, injured or unavailable, including captain Josh Jackson.

The Colts side started slowly and sloppily with a lot of poor decisions when in good positions, this can be put down to the early season and also due to the unfamiliar line up in comparison to last season, and to the pre-season programme. Luckily for the Colts Netherbury were unable to take advantage of the Colts sloppiness and therefore the Colts looked comfortable.

The deadlock was broken around half way through the first half when Matt Vinnall, promoted from the A team, burst down the right wing, leaving defenders in his wake, he showed great composure to lift his head and pick out Kaymon Lisney just inside the box who powered the ball into the roof of the net.

The goal gave the Colts confidence and several other good chances came and went, a chance was then taken when Jake Barry hit a free-kick down the centre of the goal, the Netherbury keeper parried the ball out were Ryan Mustchin was first to react to head in his first Colts goal on his full debut.

The third Colts goal followed before half time, this was again assisted by Jake Barry who put a deep ball into the box from wide on the left hand side of the pitch, this found the evergreen Paul Gold at the far post and he was able to acrobatically volley home for his first goal since returning to the club just a week a go.

The half time team talk highlighted how flattering the scoreline was, as the performance had not been up to scratch, unfortunately this did not improve the second half performance as much as would have been hoped.

The second half was fairly incident free, the Colts missed a number of chances and their was a brief scuffle that saw Steve Rodber and a Netherbury midfielder both booked, then with a few minutes left, Liam Doble tripped the Netherbury attacker on the edge of the box and a penalty was awarded and scored to bring the score to 3-1.

Any late nerves that may have been caused by the goal were soon alleviated when John Bartlett knocked a great ball into the oppositions half from deep inside the Colts half, this was met by Jake Barry who ran through to score a well deserved goal of his own, this rounded off the 4-1 win and gave Jake his first goal for the Colts, also on his competitive debut.

The Colts will look to build on the result and will aim to improve the performance levels before the league season commences, there were positives in the fact that the Colts had four different goal scorers, three of which were summer signings, the performances of Rob Sutton in the centre of the park and Matt Vinnall on the right hand side of midfield were also highlighted.

The Colts are without a fixture next week due to a tour to Butlins, they return to action on Saturday 16th September with a tricky away match against newly promoted Halstock who picked up an impressive 7-2 win away at Farway in their season opener.

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Match date

Sat 02 Sep 2017

Kickoff

14:00
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