Bramhall Rangers 9 Monkhouse Gladbach 9
Crouch, Forlan, Stead and Nev….keeping great company!
Rangers faced third bottom Monkhouse Gladbach this week in a basement battle. Rangers still have the chance to climb to second bottom this season, with an outside possibility of third bottom if results in the remaining games went their way.
In the last meeting Rangers had narrowly been beaten 10-11, so were hoping to better that score this time. With Belly still sidelined (literally, as he was supporting with Charlotte), Pie was once again in goals. Mr T returned in defence along side Nev. A side note on Nev; he was hoping to end his barren run of not scoring, last finding the net on the 15th September 2005 against Northern Canaries, over 4 months ago. Was this to be his day?
Piggy, Mini and Hedderz made the final six, which meant the team was slightly top heavy in terms of attacking players. Shiz and Rascle, both defensive players, were absent. As the game panned out it was clear that Rangers missed a defence minded player as sometimes there was too much space and time on the ball for the Gladbach players.
Gladbach started well, and picked up an early goal, carving through the Rangers defence. The score in the first half never got away from Rangers though, pegging them back level on a number of occasions. Mini grabbed the first equaliser after a one-two with Hedderz, who also registered with a goal.
At times the Rangers defending seemed panicky, mainly due to a lack of communication. Pie did his best to maintain some sort of order but it was mainly chaos. In the first half though, Gladbach did not capitalise on the disarray that much, and it was 3-3 (IIRC) at half time. Rangers were still in it, but disappointed with the first half showing.
Unfortunately, it got worse in the second half, it wasn’t a spectacular collapse as has been witnessed, but Gladbach did pull away. Wayward shooting from the Rangers and misplaced passes in the first 12-15 minutes gave chances to the opponents, who were deft enough to race into a 7-3 lead. The heads of the Rangers obviously dropped. Mr T and Nev managed to restore some parity in defence and also provided outlets on the wings. Both were unfortunate not to register a goal. With the pressure off and seemingly resigned to a defeat Rangers picked up their game. The defending improved ten fold and the link up play too. A quick ball out from Pie found Mini with his back to goal inside the opposition half. In a carbon copy of a previous goal, Mini “Thierry Henry’d it” into the top right corner with his left foot. Game on!!
Resurgence flowed through the Rangers and Monkhouse were tiring. Piggy grabbed his first and only goal of the game with a good goal that he dug out from his feet. Hedderz registered a couple more too. In one incident, Pie had injured his ankle making a save and was rolling around in his area, with Rangers holding the ball in the middle of the park. The ref stopped play to tend to Pie. On the restart from the keeper, Pie bowled in to Hedderz, but the Gladbach players were slow to react and Hedderz managed to score without much opposition. Sandwiched between the all the Rangers goals were a couple more for Monkhouse. Hedderz final goal of the game proved to be the last to grab a draw for the Rangers.
Had the game continued for 5 more minutes Rangers probably would have won, but their overall performance would not have warranted that. A draw was the right result.
Furthermore, Nev’s search for a goal goes on. But remember, it took Peter Crouch 26 games to get a goal for Liverpool, Diego Forlan took 27 games to break his duck for Man Utd and Jon Stead has gone 27 games and still counting for Sunderland. So fear not young Nev, the goal will come!!
Final score: Bramhall Rangers 9 Monkhouse Gladbach 9
Goals: Mini (4), Hedderz (4), Piggy (1)
Rangers faced third bottom Monkhouse Gladbach this week in a basement battle. Rangers still have the chance to climb to second bottom this season, with an outside possibility of third bottom if results in the remaining games went their way.
In the last meeting Rangers had narrowly been beaten 10-11, so were hoping to better that score this time. With Belly still sidelined (literally, as he was supporting with Charlotte), Pie was once again in goals. Mr T returned in defence along side Nev. A side note on Nev; he was hoping to end his barren run of not scoring, last finding the net on the 15th September 2005 against Northern Canaries, over 4 months ago. Was this to be his day?
Piggy, Mini and Hedderz made the final six, which meant the team was slightly top heavy in terms of attacking players. Shiz and Rascle, both defensive players, were absent. As the game panned out it was clear that Rangers missed a defence minded player as sometimes there was too much space and time on the ball for the Gladbach players.
Gladbach started well, and picked up an early goal, carving through the Rangers defence. The score in the first half never got away from Rangers though, pegging them back level on a number of occasions. Mini grabbed the first equaliser after a one-two with Hedderz, who also registered with a goal.
At times the Rangers defending seemed panicky, mainly due to a lack of communication. Pie did his best to maintain some sort of order but it was mainly chaos. In the first half though, Gladbach did not capitalise on the disarray that much, and it was 3-3 (IIRC) at half time. Rangers were still in it, but disappointed with the first half showing.
Unfortunately, it got worse in the second half, it wasn’t a spectacular collapse as has been witnessed, but Gladbach did pull away. Wayward shooting from the Rangers and misplaced passes in the first 12-15 minutes gave chances to the opponents, who were deft enough to race into a 7-3 lead. The heads of the Rangers obviously dropped. Mr T and Nev managed to restore some parity in defence and also provided outlets on the wings. Both were unfortunate not to register a goal. With the pressure off and seemingly resigned to a defeat Rangers picked up their game. The defending improved ten fold and the link up play too. A quick ball out from Pie found Mini with his back to goal inside the opposition half. In a carbon copy of a previous goal, Mini “Thierry Henry’d it” into the top right corner with his left foot. Game on!!
Resurgence flowed through the Rangers and Monkhouse were tiring. Piggy grabbed his first and only goal of the game with a good goal that he dug out from his feet. Hedderz registered a couple more too. In one incident, Pie had injured his ankle making a save and was rolling around in his area, with Rangers holding the ball in the middle of the park. The ref stopped play to tend to Pie. On the restart from the keeper, Pie bowled in to Hedderz, but the Gladbach players were slow to react and Hedderz managed to score without much opposition. Sandwiched between the all the Rangers goals were a couple more for Monkhouse. Hedderz final goal of the game proved to be the last to grab a draw for the Rangers.
Had the game continued for 5 more minutes Rangers probably would have won, but their overall performance would not have warranted that. A draw was the right result.
Furthermore, Nev’s search for a goal goes on. But remember, it took Peter Crouch 26 games to get a goal for Liverpool, Diego Forlan took 27 games to break his duck for Man Utd and Jon Stead has gone 27 games and still counting for Sunderland. So fear not young Nev, the goal will come!!
Final score: Bramhall Rangers 9 Monkhouse Gladbach 9
Goals: Mini (4), Hedderz (4), Piggy (1)
posted by Mini at 10:41 am
4 Comments:
Sounds like a rollercoaster ride of a game!
Next week will be interesting from a defense point of view as not only will you be missing me (the rumours of me being sidelined due to failing an internal dope test are of course untrue), but also Nev.
Will Russ be able to make a return, or will it be left to nimble Mark to be the only main defence player on the team?
Full squad for the derby match against Northern Canaries though!
I seem to remember scoring 2 last night. 1 in the first half and 1 in the second. Why are you out for next week as well. What are you doing with your life Shiz?
This is where it all goes pear shaped Piggy! We asked last night and you said 1!
Me and J though you had gotten two, but as you said you thought one thats what I put.
If you are fairly confident it was 2 (as me and J were) then we can alter it to 2 for you and 3 for Just.
Everyone happy with that?
jogging is going well. Will get another 3 in before the match on thursday, so although i shall be missing from the pub on monday, I'm keeping fingers crossed for next thursday. However, the return of the toe is hampering my return! The damn thing is big and red and my feet stick out of bed! (a poor crouch joke!) So "milking" the building up puss from it every night, which helps. Alas, its the penalty of jogging for me!
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