LEAGUE HOCKEY
PLASHET HOCKEY CLUB

Plashet 1 Vs Brentwood 2

22nd November 2008



1 - 1

This week produced an absolutely disastrous result for the first team against a very ordinary Brentwood team that was placed second from bottom before this result.

Once again Plashet were forced to reshuffle their squad for this fixture as key players were away on international commitments. Having said that, the men in orange set about the game in a positive light and began the game playing with pace and skill to create many chances from early on. The pattern of the game was stamped from as early as 5 minutes into the game; Plashet had so many chances to score but did not convert these into goals due to wayward finishing. The game could have been and should have been over by the half hour mark, missed chances meant the score remained at 0 - 0 until shortly before half time Inderjeet Singh broke the deadlock with a clinical strike from a short corner which found its way between the keeper and the defender on the line before it struck the backboard.

To the second half, Plashet restarted the game brightly; again chances were created time after time, however, Plashet were unable to find the final finish to put this game out of reach from their opposition. Each and every Plashet striker was found guilty of squandering relatively simple chances which would have been converted with ease in most games, and as Plashet only had a 1 nil lead; there was still a lot of work to do before the game was over. With this said, inevitably, Brentwood applied more pressure to push for a result themselves, after a last ditched short corner, they got the equaliser with 2 minutes remaining to give themselves a very unlikely result. Although the game ended at 1 -1, Plashet will see this as a loss and have given themselves a mountain to climb to reach the promotion stages. There is still over half the season remaining and anything can happen, however, Plashet will need to take this as a harsh lesson learnt and improve considerably in finishing their chances.