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24/03/18
As usual if it rains it must be Friday and as you can imagine after the ‘weekly’ overnight deluge the pitch was heavy in places but nevertheless rolled, spiked and in good nick, ideal for good footballers and those with lesser ability to do their stuff.
A couple of changes from last week showed the strength of Whaley’s squad with George Burgess coming in for Sam Leadbetter and Jack Gregory, making his first full start for a couple of months, replacing the Broome.
The visitors started with intent; playing some good stuff and at a really high tempo even coming close to scoring in the first minute but for another ‘typical’ sensational Tattersall tip over the bar, and so for 5 or 6 minutes the home side were under the cosh and did look to be in for a long and difficult afternoon.
However Whaley did up their pace and settle, the midfield started to hunt in packs and harass until ultimately Wythenshawe were denied the space they needed to keep the initiative. In particular Adam Barlow got after them, retrieved the ball and distributed well along with Gregory to put Whaley back on the offensive.
Some good football culminated with Bill Sutton achieving the first of his fantastic 4 on the day. Probably against the run of play at the time, 5 minutes, he scored first with his right and then 2 minutes later provided a bit of trickery by moving the ball from right to left foot before slotting home from six yards; on 35 mins he completed his hat-trick. Jack Gregory made it 4-0 just before half time with a potential goal of the season; the ball dropping from above he volleyed home from 25 yards!
George Burgess slotted home number 5 just after half time and Newton, thinking he’d netted on the hour from an acute angle at the far post, was denied by the referee who had blown for a previous foul gifting Sutton his 4th and Whaley’s 6th and final goal of the day via the penalty spot.
Taking no chances with the big Knutsford game coming up next week Darryl replaced Will Bailey and Dan Gilbride, both on yellow, and the hard-working Jack Kelly up-front; Gemmill, Joe Burgess and young Dan O’Donnell coming on.
To their credit Wythenshawe never gave up and got some consolation when in the 90th minute a mix up left Ashley Leather free at the far post; striker Gavin Salmon probably their man of the match.
This was probably Whaley’s best team performance of the season; certainly Jamie Kay looked cool and classy at left back but with 4 goals to his credit Bill Sutton must take man of the match.
Tattersall; Kay; Newton; Streets; Bailey; Burgess G; Gregory; Sutton; Barlow; Gilbride; Kelly
Burgess J; Gemmill; O’Donnell |
