BRINKLOW FC MANAGER EDWIN GREAVES REPORTS ON A 1-1 DRAW @ AMBLESIDE...

BRINKLOW FC: A POINT PROVED AT AMBLESIDE...

"Ambleside got the game underway and started quite brightly, although never really forced Daniel Mallinson into a save.


We, on the other hand, had a great opportunity in the 34th minute when Danny Lucas and Benny Adeeko linked up to set Kris Bedder through one on one but the Ambleside goalkeeper pulled off a good save.


The Ambleside goalkeeper also pulled off a fine save from Lloyd Pulford. The rest of the half was pretty uneventful with both sides evenly matched.

The 2nd half we found ourselves more on the front foot with good opportunities being missed by Kris Bedder and Viqas Yusaf and it seemed like it was not going to be our day in front of goal.


In the 80th minute a pass from Manny Dhesi found Nathan Stoute who crossed for Benny Adeeko to score his 1st goal for Brinklow: 0-1. That goal made the game very open and it became end to end stuff with both sides putting the opposing defences under pressure.


In the 85th minute Ambleside scored from a corner: a header was going towards goal but deflected off our player and was adjudged to have crossed the goal-line by the linesman: 1-1.


We still had a couple more opportunities to score as both teams went for the win.
The best of those chances fell to Connor Tallett who shot wide when through on goal and a long range shot from Nathan Stoute hit the crossbar and cannoned out in the last minute.


In summing up this game:


Better but still room for improvement.


After the two heavy defeats we have suffered recently it was nice to get any sort of result today. We had the better of the chances over the 90 minutes today but didn't take them.  Ambleside never gave up and like me will find positives from their performance today.


We now have something to build on and we need to continue to work hard to start climbing the table.

On to the next game..."

EDWIN GREAVES, MANAGER, BRINKLOW FC...