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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.
With the series switching window closing at the weekend the Scottish HFA have released the league fixtures for the new season. As seems to be the norm now, Brook Street will kick off the new league campaign with an away game, facing last season’s title winners and bookmakers favourites for this season’s title, Paisley Pirates.
League newcomers Inverness Motorbreath visit the LJG on 17 February before we hit the road again the following week to face St Andrew Paisley.
“It’s not the best of starts for us, but there are seldom easy easy fixtures in this Division”, admitted Fermín Romero this morning. “This is an extremely tough league to get out of and it may be that we have to concentrate on bringing players through who are at a level to not only get out of this Division but also Division III”.
He continued, “It’s a bold move, but we know we need to rebuild to get out of this league. It therefore makes more sense to build a side who can win this league and at least challenge in the next tier”.
“Our younger players are now getting gametime and our aim is to see them reach their full potential, build their experience and see them form the backbone of our future line-up”, he added.
Asked if he had been loyal to some players for too long he replied, “I don’t think being loyal to players is the problem; we’ve had very good players but they just couldn’t get us over the line and with the side ageing we need to rebuild”.
“If anything, I’d say that we possibly haven’t rebuilt enough and more often. We got good money for the lads who have left this close season and that will be used when the time is right and for the right player. There are a number of others who could have also left, and maybe they will during the season, who knows? We have exciting younger players coming through, but we also need the old heads so it’s all about timing and getting the balance right”.
Brook Street’s new season kicks off at Powderhall in Edinburgh on Wednesday morning when they face fifth tier side Gorgie’s XI. Kari Kienberger sits out the first game of the league campaign as he serves the suspension picked up on the final day defeat against Pirates, but will be available for the Cup tie for which Fermín has the full squad is avaiable.
“We’ll mix things up and try things out but all that matters is that we get through to the next round”, said Fermín. The Football Club have never gone out of the Scottish Cup in the First Round and it’s certainly not going to happen on my watch”.
Maybe we’ll go strong to start with and experiment once we get a few goals ahead. That’s the plan anyway”, he concluded.
Kick-off on Wednesday is at 1030.
Brook Street will head to Edinburgh in the First Round of the Scottish Cup next Wednesday when they face Gorgie’s XI.
“It will be a gentle introduction to the new season for our players”, said Fermín Romero this afternoon after the draw was made. “It gives us a chance to try out different ideas before the league campaign kicks off in Paisley next Saturday”.
He continued, “It also gives the fringe players the chance to impress prior to the start of the league campaign and I may use the fixture to play a mix of first team and fringe players”.
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