Match Reports 2009/2010

Eastleigh 0
Havant & Waterlooville 1

Football Conference South - Sat Jan 30, 2010

Hawks

Eastleigh

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 Aaron Howe
Jake Newton
Jon McDonald (Gasson, 51)
Ian Selley
Gary MacDonald
Ian Simpemba
Wes Fogden
Paul Hinshelwood
Manny Williams (Hutchings, 84)
Mustafa Tiryaki
Steven Ramsey

Substitutes
Steve Hutchings
Jay Gasson
Sam Pearce
Jorge Lopes
Nathan Ashmore

Goals


Hawks
Ramsey (64)

Eastleigh

Att: 875 		Jason Matthews
Steve Cook
Ian Oliver
Anthony Riviere
Tom Jordan
Aaron Cook
Peter Adeniyi
Andy Forbes (Brown, 66)
Richard Gillespie
Tony Taggart
Shaun McAuley

Substitutes
Matt Day
Gareth Howells
Danny Smith
Josh Webb
Jamie Brown (Smith, 70) 		1
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Steve Walker celebrates his goal before being booked

Manny Williams entangled with keeper Jason Matthews

Steve Cook's tackle puts Wes Fogden in need of treatment

Ian Baird ignores Shaun Gale's offer of a handshake at the final whistle
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All photos by Dave Haines. For more of Dave’s work click here
A single goal was enough for the Hawks to beat local rivals Eastleigh in a hotly contested local derby at the Silverlake Stadium this afternoon. Steve Walker’s effort fired low through the box went in off the foot of the post after 64 minutes of half chances from both sides.

But in a dramatic twist Walker was dismissed with a second yellow card just five minutes later, leaving the Hawks to play out the last 25 minutes of the match with ten men for the second time in a week.

Shaun Gale started with the same eleven that were successful against Bromley on Monday but was able to add Jay Gasson to the bench, ending a three and a half month absence through injury.

Anticipating a typically strong opening from their hosts, the Hawks looked to control the midfield in the early stages, but promotion challengers Eastleigh seemed reluctant to provide the opposition expected.

Manny Williams brought down a long goal kick through the Eastleigh back line soon after the start, leading to a tangle with Jason Matthews as the keeper raced to the edge of his box to smother Williams’s shot. The Spitfires then scrambled to keep the ball out of their area as the Hawks attacked twice more in quick succession.

At the other end Richard Gillespie headed the ball wide of the post after Ian Simpemba’s initial blocking of an attempt by Tony Taggart, and Wes Fogden then cleared the ball off the line after Shaun McAuley’s first corner was nodded on in the box.

Jon McDonald’s probing throws from the left eventually won the Hawks a corner, and after Ian Selley’s ball in was cleared to the midfield, Williams sent it back with a rasping drive that smashed into the bar.

Simpemba then cleared again when Howe’s attempt to snatch Taggart’s free kick failed and Peter Adeniyi latched onto the ball to hammer it back into a packed box.

The Hawks were put under pressure again when Gillespie broke up the left and turned the ball back almost from the line, only to see it graze the post and roll across the mouth of an open goal.

But the Hawks were far from undone and Fogden surged forward with the ball, cutting across Steve Cook to make space for a firm shot from the middle that Matthews spilled before recovering.

Howe caught Anthony Riviere’s shot under the bar to deny the Spitfires again, and as the half wore on it was the Hawks, playing into a viciously bright winter sun, who looked the more threatening.

Selley twice lofted in free kicks that caused disarray in the home defence, but it was from the second that Williams claimed the loose ball and sent a rising shot inches over the bar.

Half-time:
Eastleigh 0
Havant and Waterlooville 0

Eastleigh’s target man for the afternoon, Fogden, shrugged off foul after foul as he tore up the midfield. Soon after the break his cross picked out Walker on the opposite side of the pitch for a ball into the box that Mustafa Tiryaki sent into Matthews with a diving header.

64 minutes in the Hawks’s persistence paid of when WALKER took the ball on from the edge of the box and, as defenders backed off him, struck a low shot back across deck that escaped Matthews’s reach and bounced in off the foot of the post.

Having firmly left their recent struggling performances behind, the Hawks continued to put on a display that frustrated the Spitfires into making some uncompromising tackles, but it was incredibly Walker who earned the only red card of the game when he brought down McAuley from behind five minutes after being cautioned for celebrating his goal with Hawks fans behind the net.

Gillespie popped a header over the bar from six yards as Eastleigh looked to capitalize on the deficit, but the Hawks’s defence remained unchanged with the three man midfield still proving equal to their opponents.

Tiryaki was clever enough to knock the ball on into space while Williams was tracking back from offside, foxing the home defence and creating a space for himself to send a dipping shot over Matthews that skimmed out off the bar.

Ian Oliver’s cross fell neatly for Gillespie to twist a header toward the Hawks’ goal, but Howe claimed it on his line. Gillespie was then unlucky when he came up short of McAuley’s excellent cross from deep on the right with an open goal in front of him.

Tom Jordan’s foul on late substitute Steve Hutchings didn’t stop the striker from taking the advantage and running on into the box to fire wide, but ultimately, despite the slender scoreline, the Hawks ran out comfortable winners against hosts who looked no more than average against the other promotion chasing sides already encountered this season.