Hutchison Vale Colts 13s Vs
Hutchie scored the first goal in
this game inside the first ten minutes,good work down the right side from
Calvin Muttit and Blair Lawson resulted in the Musselburgh defender putting the
ball through his own net.Musselburgh then started to get their game together
and a succession of corners almost resulted in the equaliser but a combination
of luck and good defending kept the score 1-0.In the twentieth minute Hutchie
got an indirect free kick after the keeper dropped the ball and picked it up
again,Lewis Miller hit the bar with the shot and Mikey Reid hit the post with
the rebound.For the rest of the half Hutchie couldn't get out their half and
from another corner Musselburgh pulled level with a header that just crossed
the line despite Robbie Murray getting his head to it.Musselburgh took a
deserved lead just on half-time with a free kick knocked over the top of the
defence and the striker ran in behind to slot home to make it 2-1.
Half-Time 1-2
Hutchie now had all 5 subs on the
park for start of the second half and if we had more we would have used them
that's how far of the play we were compared to Musselburgh.But credit must be
given for what was to turn out to be a gutsy second half performance from
Hutchie.Hutchie drew level almost from the restart with sub Jack Mcintyre
scoring with almost his first touch to make it 2-2.Musselburgh retook the lead
when they were awarded a penalty after some sloppy defending,the taker sending
Grant Steele the wrong way to make it 3-2.Hutchie changed to a more attacking
3-4-3 formation to try to retrieve the match and with 10 minutes to go they got
a free kick 25 yards out,Lewis Miller smashed the free kick at the keeper who
could only deflect it into the net 3-3.But this cracking game wasn't finished
yet.Marc Berry went on mazy solo run and the keeper upended him in the box for
a penalty.Brad Rixon stepped up,and with 2 minutes left cracked the ball high
into the net to give Hutchie a lucky but gutsy 4-3 victory.
Full-Time HUTCHIE 4 MUSSELBURGH 3
It was a great match played in a
sporting way by both teams.We got the win this week because we wanted to win
not like last week when we expected to win.