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Charlie Benham celebrates his extra-time goal which sends Brook Street into the Third Round.
Joe Anderson’s side had twice been behind and survived the visitors hitting the post in the eighty-ninth minute before equalising in stoppage time to take the game into the extra half-hour.
With nineteen minutes of extra-time played and Brook Street’s youngsters wilting badly, Charlie Benham stepped up to score what proved to be the winning goal with no shortage of showboating thrown in for good measure.
That didn’t go down well with the away bench, but the home side certainly weren’t going to be bothered with that as they shut up shop and rode out the last eleven minutes.
Joe Anderson admitted afterwards that he had taken a risk putting that side and formation out, but even so the result had left him somewhat bemused.
“We knew playing 4-4-2 was not our best formation and having Ryan [Caldor] and Tom [Sandman] on for the entire game was asking a lot of them, especially when it went to extra-time, but I asked them both at full-time if they were ok to do the additional half hour and they were more than up for it”.
“They had good lads round them to keep them going and it all worked out well. They’ll feel it tomorrow, but they have gained invaluable experience”.
Asked about Charlie Benham’s rabona finish he replied, “If he had screwed it up I would have throttled him. Fortunately for us both it went in. He’s been told however to keep it simple in future”.
“We scored terrific goals today; Callum Ironmonger’s was a brilliant play and Alex Marker put a vicious curl on that ball to score the equaliser late on. I must admit I thought he’d put it well wide but it kept on bending. It was unstoppable”.
“We also avoided any injuries or cards and Gillis Jacob came through unscathed, so all in all it was a pretty good day at the office”.
Brook Street will now face a tougher challenge in the shape of Division III side Uli Town in the next round.
Gillis Jacob will take his usual place in the Brook Street midfield having recovered from injury.
With a number of big league games coming up the Tartan Cup is not high up his priority list and the Brook Street coach is unlikely to take any chances by playing many of his main players.
“We’re using the cups to ensure all our players get gametime over the week, nothing more, said Joe this morning. “The league is and will always be our priority”.
“We got a wee boost last night when Gillis Jacob was passed fit to play, so he’ll be back in midfield”, added the coach. “Otherwise you can probably work out our line-up by who didn’t play on Saturday”.
He concluded by saying, “It would be good to progress to the next round, but it’s not the be all and end all. As long as we get through the game without picking up any injuries or cards, I’ll be happy”.
Balázs Polyák and Jackie Underhill are both in fine form, giving the coach a pleasant selection problem.
Last season was their first in the league and having gained promotion at the first attempt they, like Brook Street, elected to change leagues and join Division IV.61.
Their start to the season has been a mixed bag with a 4-0 home win against Danny’s American and a 6-0 defeat on the road to Balvenie United, so they will be looking for a good showing tomorrow.
“We’ve got to be aware of that”, admitted Joe Anderson this afternoon. It’s difficult to gauge how teams will perform, and while on paper we would appear to have the edge, we all know football isn’t played on paper”.
With the exception of Gillis Jacob, Joe has a full squad to choose from.
“It’s unfortunate we won’t have Gillis available as he’s been playing well”, said the coach, “but we have plenty of options available to come in”.
“I also have the good fortune of having strikers in good form, which leaves me with a conundrum on who to pick. That’s a pleasant problem to have though”, he added.
Kick-off tomorrow is at 16:30.
Jackie Underhill fires home the second of his three goals against nineteen eighty-four this afternoon.
It was the first time the Monifieth side had defeated their north-east opponents and with it set up a Third Round tie at the LJG against fellow Division IV side Seldom Smiled.
Hot on the heels of Balázs Polyák’s hat-trick at the weekend, today it was Jackie Underhill’s turn to bag himself a career first hat-trick with the last coming from the penalty spot.
Asked afterwards if there had been a spat between Jackie and Gillis Jacob about who was going to take the penalty with both players sitting on two goals, Joe Anderson laughed loudly and replied, “I don’t know where you guys in the media get the ideas for these stories. Jackie was our designated set piece taker, so he was always taking it”.
He continued, “There was no falling out and this is a total non-story”.
It wasn’t all good news for Joe Anderson however as a late injury to Gillis Jacob saw the Belgian hobble off the field.
“Gillis rolled his ankle near the end of the game and it’s in ice at the moment”, said the coach. “The doc has had a look at it and will look at it again tomorrow morning. He doesn’t think there is any major damage but will check it again once the swelling has gone down to be sure”.
“Either way, Gillis is out for a week at least which is unfortunate”, he admitted.
“It was a great team performance today and we were able to work on building up the stamina of Tom Sandman and Ryan Caldor too. The only downside was the injury to Gillis, but we can do nothing about that.”
“Now weturn our attention to Saturday’s fixture against Desired Opponent at the LJG”, concluded the coach.
Gillis Jacob lifts the ball over Andrin Fournier to open the scoring for Brook Street this afternoon.
After their late defeat the previous week by Paisley Pirates, Brook Street were probably the last side Gers would have wanted to face. However the fixture computer certainly did Gers no favours when it lined up a double-header against Brook Street sandwiched between meetings with last season’s Champions.
Brook Street were straight onto the front foot straight from kick-off and with nine minutes played, Gillis Jacob lifted the ball over the outrushing Gers keeper and into the net. It was one of those events when the ball seemed to be moving in slow motion but despite his best efforts to get back, Andrin Fournier couldn’t keep the ball out.
Gers fired right back and just two minutes later Zdzisław Szafruga broke through and fired Gers level.
If ever a goal spurred a side into action, this was it as Brook Street launched wave after wave of attacks on the Gers back line.
Diego Misuraca went close with a thunderous drive that left the crossbar rattling for a number of seconds with twenty-one minutes played, but Joe Anderson found the target a minute later with a low drive that went across the keeper and in at the far post.
Brook Street could smell blood now and went in for the kill. Kari Kienberger broke through on the right and when it looked like he had been pushed too far out, he whipped in a vicious shot which beat Andrin Fournier at his near post.
The home side were far from done though and with Gers reeling under the onslaught Joe Anderson found the net again in the twenty-seventh minute with a beautifully curled shot from the left that had Andrin Fournier grasping thin air.
With the score 4-1 at the break and Brook Street in complete control, it would be fully expected for them to ‘take it easy’ in the second half however this was far from the case and having survived a scare on the hour mark, set about their opponents with renewed vigour.
Seven minutes later it was 5-1 as Aldo Pellone broke through before dispatching the ball low and hard into the net.
Brook Street were unrelenting and but for interventions by post and crossbar, Adam Doyle and Kari Kienberger would both have added to Gers’ misery even before Mait Peterson blasted the ball inches over the crossbar in stoppage time.
“We were at our ruthless best today and it was probably the worst day Badger Loyal could have face us”, enthused Fermín Romero afterwards.
“We were superb all over the pitch and showed ourselves in a very good light”, he added. “Now we face them again next weekend at Smith Stadium and I would guess that they are looking forward to that a lot less than us”.
This win extends Brook Street’s unbeaten run to four games and keeps them in fourth place in the tableahead of Winbat on goal difference.
Elsewhere, Pirates capitalised on Badger Loyal’s defeat to go top with a 7-0 home win over Elgin, Paisley St Andrew remain three points off the pace following their 6-1 mauling of Inverness Motorbreath, while Oboy shot are already looking doomed following this afternoon’s 6-0 demolition at Winbat.
On his competitive debut for Brook Street Athletic, Jānis Graubiņš score his first senior goal.
Fermín Romero had surprised a number of onlookers by fielding a predominantly young reserve side with an average age of only 21 playing a 3-4-3 formation, however the players leapt at the opportunity to impress and quickly took control of the game.
The capital side didn’t do themselves any favours though and already trailing to Balázs Polyák’s twelfth minute opener, saw their numbers reduced when Hamish Standfield was ordered off after felling Gillis Jacob with a tackle verging on assault and more suited to Murrayfield.
Gillis was unable to continue and Brook Street were forced to make an early substitution with Jake Ward coming on to make his senior competitive debut at only 17-years of age.
With an advantage in numbers Brook Street seized the initiative and despite the home side ‘parking the bus’ Brook Street finally added to their lead in the twenty-eighth minute when Jackie Underhill powers his way into the home team box before firing the ball under Roy Wilson in the home goal.
Brook Street upped their lead to 3-0 in the thirty-eight minute when Jānis Graubiņš, who was making his debut, picked up a pass from Banin Jiménez Iniesta before rounding Lee Haggard, drawing the keeper and lobbing the ball into the empty net. Simply sublime!
Banin Jiménez Iniesta turned from provider to finisher a minute later when he found himself free on the left. Having received the ball he proceeded to cut inside the defender before curling the ball into the net with the outside of his boot to make it 4-0.
Gorgie’s XI were spent by this point and Brook Street Athletic killed the game stone dead in the forty-fourth minute when Janko Fila launched a cross over from the right. Jackie Underhill looked to have over-run the ball before turning and launching himself into the air and battering the ball into the net with a spectacular scissor kick.
This was the cue for many of the home fans to head for the local hostelries.
Things went from bad to worse from the home side eleven minutes into the second half when Callum Ironmonger broke through and dispatched the ball past Roy Wilson with a superb low drive.
Brook Street were toying with their opponents and the outcome was almost inevitable when Remmel Demarsin carved his way through the home defence in sixty-second minute; 7-0 to the visitors.
In the sixty-fifth minute Mait Peterson beat the home side’s poor attempt at an offside trap to be left one-on-one with Roy Wilson. The home keeper did his best to put the Estonian off but the finish was clinical and the score was eight without reply.
Janko Fila went close to making it 9-0 a minute later but his lob was cleared off the line, and with that Brook Street eased off and freewheeled to full-time knowing they were safely in the Second Round draw.
Asked why he had gone with an a young line-up and an unfamiliar formation Fermín Romero said, “These are the kind of games we can do this. We can try out new ideas and do ‘something different’. I went with the players who had not had gametime this week and this was the line-up that fitted the players best”.
Turning to the match itself he said, “We took control of the game early on and eventually turned our dominance into goals”.
He continued, “My players did everything I asked of them and we produced an superb team performance, and achieved an excellent result with individual milestones. We had Jānis Graubiņš score his first goal on his competitive debut for us and Remmel Demarsin scored his first competitive goal for the Club and Jake Ward making his competitive debut”.
He concluded, “At the end of the day we are in the draw for the Second Round and that’s what we wanted”.
In that draw Brook Street Athletic were rewarded with another away tie against fourth tier side Whisky Barrel Football Club.
Kick-off at Moonshine Arena next Wednesday will be at 10:30.
Kalle Konkka slides in to dispossess Pirates striker Eugen Caraiman the last time the sides met.
“That’s another downside to finishing as runners-up in the previous season”, he said this morning. “Losing the title is bad enough, but you go into the close season knowing that you’ll be facing whoever comes down away in the opening day”.
“However if you want to win the title you have to beat everyone else including the side that comes down. We were unlucky last season but we will go to Paisley looking for three points”.
Fermín will be without Gillis Jacob following his midweek red card, but the rest of the squad are all fit and available for selection.
Kick-off at Paisley Pirates Arena is at 16:30.
Academy graduate Jackie Underhill fires home his first competitive goal for the senior side.
Despite this, Brook Street’s second string put in a solid performance that their coach was pleased with.
“It could have been tricky for us going down to ten men but I feel that my players handled the situation very well”, he said.
“We continued to put them under pressure throughout the match and despite having a couple of players playing out of position, we coped with everything they threw at us”.
He continued, “The main thing is that we are through to the next round”.
Fermín Romero’s side made the perfect start when Balázs Polyák fired home after only two minutes but the fans had to wait almost another half hour before Garth Wallace tapped the ball into the net from close range after the home keeper mishandled a corner.
As the old saying goes, you wait half an hour for a goal then two come along at once, and so it was this morning as Jackie Underhill finished off clinically just a minute after Brook Street had scored their second.
Gillis Jacob received his marching orders on the thirty-two minute mark and Brook Street seemed to lose their way as they got used to being a man down.
Five minutes before the break, Jambo made a rare attack with Tom Milne finding acres of space on the left, but Jeremías Marchena’s positioning on his competitive debut was immaculate and he gathered the ball with ease.
This seemed to stir Brook Street from their slumber and from the ball out, it reached Charlie Benham who fired in an inch perfect diagonal pass to Balázs Polyák who buried it into the net with the most clinical of finishes.
The game was all but won the second half was something of a low-key training event. Garth Wallace was on hand to finish off a fine move in the seventy-fifth minute, but Brook Street saved the best for last when, with a minute of regular time remaining, Charlie Benham finished off a move on the left with a spectacular scissors kick.
So Brook Street progress to the Second Round where they will, as expected, travel to the Lothians to face fellow Division IV side Stucastle United who won 3-0 in Inverness this morning.
“Diego’s missed out the last couple of games but is available and ready to go tomorrow”.
Fermín Romero will of course be without the services of Banin Jiménez Iniesta amd Gillis Jacob following their red cards on Saturday, but he confirmed that Diego Misuraca is likely to feature.
“Diego’s missed out the last couple of games but is available and ready to go tomorrow”, he said.
“Being without Banin and Gillis who both would almost certainly have featured against ABM is a blow, but we’ll rotate our squad and probably change our intended formation”, he added.
“We might try a different formation but we have the personnel to cover it so that’s no big deal. I’m still annoyed that we are without Gillis on a false pretense but it is what it is and we have to just get on with it”.
Kick-off is at 10:30 tomorrow.
Connor Hutton slams home the opening goal of the game nineteen minutes in.
However, the fans left the stadium scratching their heads trying to remember the last time Brook Street had a player sent off followed by the player that came on to fill the space vacated by him. On that, the club historian said, “We have looked through the records and we are yet to find anything; yes we’ve had two sent off before, but not from the same position”.
The recent good weater had broken overnight and the match was played in driving rain in front of a half-full LJG. However, Brook Street started at a high tempo and probed for weaknesses in their opponents defensive line that would lead to the opening goal.
That duly arrived in the nineteenth minute when Connor Hutton broke through and having avoided a number of, what would locally be termed ‘agricultural’ challenges, slammed the ball high into the net.
However the match turned on it’s head in twenty-seven minutes when Zane Zouch bearing down on the Brook Street goal used all his experience to run across Banin Jiménez Iniesta leaving the Spaniard with nowhere to go. Although Banin tried to avoid contact, he clipped the forward’s heel and Zouch instinctively went to ground.
As the last man, Banin Jiménez Iniesta was ordered off.
Much to his disgust Connor Hutton was called over to make way for a replacement midfielder in the shape of Gillis Jacob.
The visitors clearly had their tails up, but any thoughts of an equaliser were extinguished in the space of two minutes later in the half when first Raúl Colen with a scruffy volley in the thirty-eighth minute and a Joe Anderson strike from the edge of the box a minute later saw Brook Street head into the break three-up.
Even despite being down to ten men Brook Street’s dominance was clear for all to see, so the fact fact that they were 3-0 up at the break came as no surprise.
However, Fermín Romero demanded more from his players and they duly responded in the second half scoring in the sixty-first minute when Kari Kienberger swept the ball into the net following a tremendous move through the middle.
Then with a quarter of an hour left Gillis Jacob got on the end of a Craig Smart cross to powerfully head the ball into the net.
Three minutes later however, a bemused Gillis was heading for the dressing room after being ordered off for allegedly striking Zane Zouch off the ball. It was completely out of character and there seemed to be a lot of dubiety about the whole incident, but the referee was adamant that Gillis was going off.
In recent weeks, Brook Street have become accustomed to playing with ten men, but it remained to be seen how they would cope with nine men against eleven. However it was obvious that being two players down was not even a hindrence to Fermín Romero’s side as they continued to sweep forward, and just as the game entered stoppage time Craig Smart fired home Brook Street’s sixth and final goal from close range.
Despite the good win, it was clearly a furious Brook Street coach who entered the post-match press conference, where of course the matter of the two sendings off was the leading topic of conversation.
“Banin’s red was just one of those things. He was left with nowhere to go and of course he was going to make contact. A forward in those situations is 100% going to go down”.
“I have no problem with that card. Banin will learn from it and we move on. What I cannot accept is Gillis’ sending off”.
“The referee saw him sitting on his backside rubbing his jaw while pointing at Gillis and he jumped to the wrong conclusion”, protested the Brook Street gaffer. “His assistant provided no insight whatsoever and the referee went with his original assumption and sent Gillis off”.
“Given that Gillis was facing in the opposite direction as I was shouting instructions to him at the time and he wasn’t even the closest Brook Street player to Zouch just proves that the referee has been conned”, he added.
“I will not say the player is a cheat as that will get me into trouble, but here I believe he has acted dishonestly in order to gain an advantage. We need to stamp this behaviour out and we need officials to officiate with their eyes open”, he concluded.
On the win itself he said, “We played reasonably well, but losing Banin so early clearly affected the result. I would have wanted to score more than six goals, but under the circumstances I have to be satisfied with that.
In the other games, only three sides remain with 100% records going into week 3; Winbat wonderers, Badger Loyal and Breakfast. Winbat had a comfortable 4-1 win at Glasgow Athletic, Badger Loyal had a thumping 5-0 win at Livilions and Breakfast won 2-0 at St Andrew Paisley, a result which sees St Andrew still pointless after two games and second bottom by goal difference alone. Brook Street will be looking to pile on the agony next weekend when the sides meet at St Andrews Paisley Arena.
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