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Falkland skipper Ugo Maria Chiari yet again gets the better of Brook Street’s Charlie Benham,
Going into the match Brook Street were sitting top of the league, flying and everything seemed to be going their way. Falkland on the other hand were coming in on the back of a shock 1-0 defeat at Long Shot, a game which had seen former San Marino international Aldo Segapeli dropped following a period of poor form.
Segapeli was restored to the Falkland line-up for this afternoon’s game while Brook Street were boosted by the surprise return of Kari Kienberger who was given the all clear to play this morning.
Brook Street knew they’d be in for a tough game either way, but facing a side who were hurting following a poor showing last weekend was always going to raise the stakes. That Brook Street’s players chose this afternoon to go missing in action themselves was however wholly unexpected.
Brook Street were put under severe pressure right from the first whistle with Falkland firmly on the front foot.
Falkland skipper Ugo Maria Chiari was giving Charlie Benham and Raúl Colen a torrid time down Brook Street’s left flank and it was from one of his crosses that the home side took the lead in the fourteenth minute when Dan Ionaşc volleyed home.
It was one-way traffic and poor finishing had kept the score at 1-0 until six minutes from the break when another Chiari cross was met by the forehead of Anthony Themdale and the ball ended up in the net.
Things would not get any easier for Joe Andersons side after the break and a combination of poor finishing, woodwork and the occasional intervention from Jeremías Marchena kept the deficit at two goals until the seventy-fourth minute when Brook Street’s midfield and defence were torn apart leaving Aldo Segapeli one-on-one with Marchena.
It looked like the Sammarinese midfielder had miss-hit his shot however it had enough on it to take it beyond the fingertips of Jeremías Marchena and into the net to put the home side three-up and out of sight.
Indeed, but for a superb Jeremías Marchena tip round the post eleven minutes from time, it could easily have been 4-0.
It was a miserable performance and Joe Anderson didn’t hold back at the post-match press conference.
“We’ve taken exactly what we deserved from that game. We had zero threat going forward, we made zero chances, we had zero shots on goal and we’re taking zero points home”, he ranted.
“We were shockingly poor today and I am utterly dumbfounded as to why so many players were totally off the boil at the same time”, he added.
“We never laid a glove on them and just didn’t get going. Falkland wanted the win and to be honest, they probably got it without having to get out of second gear. Nowhere near good enough from us”.
For his part, Falkland coach Grant Rough said, “Today we knew we were facing a top opponent playing well. We had to be at the races and we did our jobs well today”.
“The opponent didn’t seem to turn up today but they have obvious quality all over the park and the return fixture will be harder than at Long Shot” said the understandably delighted coach.
Elsewhere, Wick Academy ran out 6-0 winners at Danny’s American, Balvenie United came from behind to defeat Long Shots 2-1 at home, while Desired Opponent edged out Athletico Machrie by the odd goal in five.
Kari Kienberger looks set to miss out on tomorrow’s trip to face Falkland F.C at Mount Pleasant.
And it appears that they will do so without the services of influential Kari Kienberger who is still on the treatment table.
“We’ll give him as long as we can, but at the moment it looks like he’s going to miss out”, admitted Joe this afternoon.
“It’s disappointing, but it is what it is. This is why football is a squad game; if someone isn’t available, there’s always another player good enough to step right into the team”.
He continued, “Other than Kari, everyone else is available however I won’t be naming my side until close to kick-off. What I will tell you is that we will 100% not be playing 4-4-2!”
Kick-off is at 16:30 tomorrow.
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