Mixed fortunes as UEA 1st XI play the crossbar challenge

UEA's 1st team were held to a nil nil draw yesterday in a game they could and should have won! Magnus was given nothing to do in a game where UEA hit the crossbar twice and the post once. Positives can be taken from the game, only their second clean sheet this season, the back four of O'Donnel, Andrews, Dave Burnham and the return of Dave Mahoney looked solid in front of the giant that is Tom Lenihan. Clean sheet bonuses were picked up by all the defenders used but unfortunately no goal bonuses. A man of the match has yet to be decided which will be posted this weekend after saturdays games.

The twos had a much easier game than Nottingham 2nds, they had to play Bedford 4ths. A team who were expected to be quite decent after their nil nil draw with their own third team the week before, turned out to be pretty wank and the game was over by half time! Jonny Richardsons' two screamers, were followed by 2 nice lobs from Gaskell and Yeomans, and a tap in from a goal mouth scramble for Liam Martin. 5-0 at half time and UEA knew it was over. A solid 2nd half saw no goals but the creation of many opportunities. Something Bedford failed to do until the last 5 minutes, but even then their goal was ruled out for offside.

Jimmy Havers picked up the star man award and again the 2's followed in the footsteps of the firsts by earning many clean sheet bouses. This has become especially noticeable for Sam Gilliland who is the top scoring defender on 50 points.

Top 5 scoring players for each position

Cost (M)	Positon	Name	Points
6	GK	Dan Humphries	29
7	GK	Tom Lenihan	27
3	GK	Alex Potemidies	12
5	DEF	Sam Gilliland	50
6	DEF	James Havers	43
6	DEF	Gavin Butler	35
3	DEF	Tom Denney	34
3	DEF	Ahmet Ayer	33
5	MID	Liam Martin	50
5	MID	Tom Thornton	46
6	MID	Jonny Richardson	44
6	MID	David Foulis	39
6	MID	Scott Holiday	37
7	STR	Nick Gaskell	76
8	STR	Chris Morris	59
7	STR	Dave Yeomans	47
7	STR	Paolo Ceroni	37
7./4.	STR	J.Pitlabo/D.White	23

The league will be posted next Monday night most likely

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