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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.
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.
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