England Hockey Vase Competition
PLASHET HOCKEY CLUB

Round 2

Plashet 1 Vs Spalding 1

27th October 2009



6 - 5

Full-Time Score 5-5
Golden Goal - Plashet Win

Plashet through to Round 3

Match report coming soon...

GOALSCORERS

Daljeet Cheema 1
Inderjeet Panesar 1
Sant Matharu 2
Verinder Chana 1

* Golden Goal: Jagjeet Virdi

Spalding Match Report

25/10/09 - Spalding 1sts 5 - Plashet 6 - Vase Cup 2nd Round 

On Sunday Spalding entertained Plashet from East Ham in London in the 2nd round of the Vase Cup. Both teams are the leading scorers in their respective leagues so would this be a goal fest or would they cancel each other out? The Plashet players had great individual skills and once anywhere near the D were likely to win a short, which they regularly did. However a combination of great defending and over complication from the visitors meant they squandered many a chance. Spalding certainly upped their game from the previous day and with some short sharp passing realised they could easily play around Plashet and it was they that stunned the visitors when Mat Sanders opened the scoring. It was real end to end stuff and Plashet soon equalised before Shaun Dewing made it 2-1. Parity was again restored but Mike Morris with a super solo effort on the stroke of half time gave Spalding the lead.

During the interval the players were warned to expect Plashet to up the tempo in the second half and despite the warning were soon 3-5 down. However this seemed to galvanise the team spirit and some fine defending from stand in backs Josh Rowbottom and Rob Tilbrook together with some fierce determination from James Doolan in the middle saw Spalding again draw level with Martin Perkins from a short and Connor Stokes taking the game to golden goal extra time. Through first Stokes and then Doolan Spalding had chances to clinch the tie but were denied by some excellent keeping. With time running out and a penalty flick shoot out looking inevitable Plashet mounted once last desperate attack and with just seconds to go drilled in a low fierce shot to break the hearts of the Spalding players and crowd who had turned out to watch. It was a thrilling game and a great advert for hockey and all who took part can be proud of their performance.