Match Reports 2009/2010

Havant & Waterlooville 3
Worcester City 2

Football Conference South - Sat Feb 06, 2010

Hawks

Worcester City

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 Aaron Howe
Jake Newton
Jon McDonald
Ian Selley
Gary MacDonald
Ian Simpemba
Wes Fogden (Medley, 80)
Paul Hinshelwood
Manny Williams
Mustafa Tiryaki (Hutchings, 87)
Steven Ramsey (Tabiri, 73)

Substitutes
Joe Tabiri
Michael Hector
Sam Pearce
Steve Hutchings
Luke Medley

Goals


Hawks
Williams (pen, 30)
Williams (52)
Williams (79)

Worcester City
Clyde (67)
Carter (89)

Att: 784 		Jake Meredith
Graham Ward (Elvins, 90)
Shabir Khan
Mark Clyde
Wayne Daniel
Tom Kemp
Rob Davies
Gary Walker
Craig Wilding
Marco Adaggio
Alfie Carter

Substitutes
Kevin Spencer
Rob Elvins
Jordan Fitzpatrick
Louis Bridges
Carl Heeley 		1
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Worcester City took the Hawks to the wire in a dramatic encounter at Westleigh Park that saw Manny Williams find the net three times for the Hawks to win 3-2.

Williams put the hosts on the road to their third consecutive win from the penalty spot after 30 minutes, and then doubled the lead seven minutes after the break when he forced the ball past keeper Jake Meredith on the Worcester line.

Mark Clyde struck back for the visitors in the 67th minute with a wonderful twisting volley from 18 yards, but Williams topped it 13 minutes later when he connected with Joe Tabiri’s brilliant forward ball to send it on past Meredith.

Alfie Carter then snuck a header past Aaron Howe in the 89th minute, and the Hawks keeper preserved the home win in injury time when he pushed Gary Walker’s last ditch effort over the bar.

Unwilling to mess with a winning formula, Shaun Gale kept new signings Joe Tabiri and Luke Medley on the bench as the Hawks started with the same eleven that beat Eastleigh last week.

Belying the grandstand finish that would follow, the game started as a sedate affair and it took twenty minutes before either side registered a shot on target. City were the first to snatch a serious chance when Graham Ward’s corner went loose in the box and Jake Newton made an off the line clearance to end the melee.

Immediately afterwards, Gary MacDonald swept the ball forward to release Williams on the left and his pass square across the edge of the box put Mustafa Tiryaki in space before the striker lost his chance to shoot.

It was a corner from Jon McDonald that led to the Hawks’s penalty when Ian Simpemba headed it back to the edge of the box and Walker took Wes Fogden’s legs from under him as the nippy winger tried to manoeuvre his way forward.

WILLIAMS took the spot kick with aplomb and sent it high into the net.

City could have drawn level almost immediately, but Craig Wilding’s bullet header from Ward’s free kick went wide of the post. The visitors continued to apply pressure and amid another free for all in the Hawks’ box MacDonald hacked the ball clear to prevent a shot.

Gary Walker would then try twice more before the break with off target attempts as City looked for a route back into the game.

Half-time:
Havant and Waterlooville 1
Worcester City 0

It was the Hawks who scored next, seven minutes into the second half, when Tiryaki took on a long ball on the edge of the box and poked it through to Williams, who struggled past Tom Kemp and almost lost the ball to Meredith before it squirmed free of the keeper, leaving WILLIAMS with an easy finish on the line.

Tiryaki was fouled just outside the City box on the right, and McDonald tried to loop the free kick across the goal, but saw it go high on the far side.

But the game was far from one sided and Carter’s ball back into the box after a corner left Rob Davies well placed to make an attempt, before Davies sent a free kick over the bar.

City eventually snatched a goal back in the 67th minute when the Hawks failed to deal with a forward ball and the unlikely form of assistant manager CLYDE swung at it for a brilliant 18 yard volley that left Aaron Howe rooted to the spot.

Minutes later City were unlucky not to draw level when Clyde won the ball in the centre circle and sent it on for Marco Adaggio to break free on the right. His shot back across the goal though bounced out on the far side with Howe trailing behind.

Having scored twice in five games this season the matter of Manny Williams and a hat-trick has been long debated, but the moment came eleven minutes from the end of the game when Tabiri, on the pitch for just five minutes after replacing Steve Walker, played a superb ball up the middle of the field that WILLIAMS connected with for a volley that sent it on past Meredith.

Excellent passing play followed as Williams first played the ball off Tiryaki before seeing it cleared away from him in the box by Wayne Daniel, and then four superb touches between Williams and Steve Hutchings left the latter with the ball six yards out for a miscued shot.

But Worcester were far from dead and when Davies chipped the ball into the side of the Hawks’ box one minute from the end, CARTER ghosted in superbly to divert it in off the foot of the post with a clever header.

Almost forced to hang on for the win in injury time, the Hawks would have conceded a draw had Howe not reacted quickly to push Walker’s final effort over the bar.