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HORSHAM 6 Seaford Wasps 2

Sunday 6th November 2011

Sussex Sunday Youth League

Horsham began this match with Seaford Wasps slowly, with a chance for the visitors coming early in the game but Horsham 'keeper Joe Moss saw the danger and came out quickly, closing his legs and standing firm to deflect the shot away to safety.

Liam Clarke put Horsham ahead on eleven minutes after bursting through down the left and steering his right footed curled shot in off the far post from a tight angle. This settled the lads and Finn Bigg followed up two minutes later with a powerfully hit shot but just over the bar. These two then combined to produce a good save by the Seaford 'keeper from Clarke after Bigg had picked him out with a nicely slotted pass.

Seaford bounced back but their break was mopped up by Jack and Lewis Reeves and the ball was cleared strongly all the way through and over the Seaford defence for Clarke to pounce for his second with a deft lob after allowing the ball to bounce just once; a very well taken goal. Thirty minutes gone and Horsham had Seaford pretty much pinned down in their penalty area but couldn’t find a way through for their third. Bigg broke away but scuffed his low hit shot and this was easily taken by the 'keeper. However, no-one could stop him with a fine individual goal after accelerating past the first man, beating the second and, on reaching the by-line, finishing from an acute angle across goal and in off the back post in similar fashion to Clark’s first.

H/T Seaford Wasps 0 Horsham 3

Horsham brought on their three subs for Clark, Hugo Cowan and Dan Cusdin but were rocked by a quick Seaford goal after never really clearing the ball away in defence and this gave the Seaford lads' legs some new energy. Horsham stuck to their guns and sent Bigg on his way down the left and, with some superb footwork, he beat three defenders to cross from the by-line right across the face of goal but found no-one coming in to finish, which was a shame.

Horsham were picking up the pace again with some nice quick passing and this lead to their fourth goal by George Matthews with a beautifully lofted strike from distance over the advancing 'keeper. Seaford were still pressing and looked dangerous on the break but found Louis Lewis in good form at the centre of Horsham's defence. Tom Summerfield was also enjoying his more advanced role at right midfield in this half and went on a great run through several players before laying off a pass when perhaps a more selfish approach could have brought him a goal.

He had, however, clearly learned from this just before the hour with a sweetly struck low shot from just inside the area for Horsham’s 5th of the day. This was followed up with his second not long after; another great strike from the edge of the box this time high and hitting first one post then the other before going in. Charlie Belton was also causing problems for the Seaford defence down the left and he tricked his way through with nice footwork, squaring the ball to Ali Kerr outside the area who unleashed a piledriver of a shot which was bound for the roof of the net before the Seaford ‘keeper managed to get his fingertips to it and push it over the bar for a really fine save.

Seaford scored from a penalty which turned out to be the last kick of the game after Kerr protected his face by blocking a shot with his hands but Horsham were always comfortable running out winners 6–2 to take the lads to the top of the league.