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Northwood Under 18 4  Hendon Under 18 2

Thursday 17th March 2011

Northwood U18
Ryman Youth
Cup

Chestnut Avenue, Northwood
Chezney Cassell
1
Kick Off
Tommy Day
2
7.45 p.m.
Gbenga Adelana
3
H/T
Nathan McLeod
4
0-1
Sean Hollowed
5
Scorers
D Cole-Parkes
6
Northwood
John Uche
7
Walker 2, Hollowed,
Cole-Parkes
Liam McGrath
8
Romaine Walker
9
Jack Hutchinson
10
Hendon
Damilola Thomas
11
Miguel-Panzo, McFarlane
 
Jordan Douglas (2)
12
 
Richard Amofa (4)
14
 
Reece Fallon (7)
15
 
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17
 
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18
 
 


Northwood moved into the quarter-finals of the Lucas Fettes Youth Cup with this gruelling and hard-fought extra-time victory over Hendon. The visitors play their football in the Cheshunt Youth League, so were a bit of an unknown quantity for the Woods, and they possessed both some talented individuals and a high tempo game.

With Northwood missing the pacy Zain Khan and Julian Cole, their approach in the first-half lacked the usual flow and after Sean Hollowed put a free header over the bar and Damilola Thomas had an early shot saved, Hendon had the Woods on the back-foot for a while. Ryan McFarlane forced goalkeeper Chezney Cassell into a diving save and then from the resulting corner, the ball was not cleared and Barkley Miguel-Panzo netted from close-range.

Northwood rallied briefly with Romaine Walker denied penalty claims after taking a tumble just inside the box and then having a header cleared off the line, but the Greens were still looking dangerous with Miguel-Panzo’s strike flashing across the face of goal and then Cassell making another solid save.

Just before the break, Northwood almost grabbed a fortunate equaliser as Jack Hutchinson’s cross took a deflection and looped over the ‘keeper but also wide of the far post.

As had happened in the last few fixtures, the Woods looked a better side in the second half and they were in front within seven minutes of the restart. Firstly John Uche threaded a great ball through a square defence for Walker to run onto, and he made no mistake after racing though and side-stepping the goalkeeper Sean Bazoli. Then, Hutchinson curled in a free-kick which Hollowed deflected with a deft header that crept inside the far post and suddenly Northwood were leading.

Hendon reacted well though and only three minutes later a ball was worked across well from the right and McFarlane thumped the ball past Cassell to give the ‘keeper no chance.

The Woods should have been in front again on 57 minutes as Nathan McLeod produced a fine run down the right and cut the ball back to Thomas whose good strike was headed off the line with Bazoli beaten.
After this there was plenty of hard work from both sides as they cancelled each out for a long period and there was little action in front of goal until the 84th minute when Bazoli did well to palm out a stinging Walker free-kick. A minute later Walker was denied again as the ‘keeper touched his shot just wide of the post while Hendon’s one chance to win the game was thwarted by Cassell who came out well to block a shot with his legs.

Extra-time it was, and the Woods introduced the fresh legs of Jordan Douglas up front to expand the attacking options. It did the trick just five minutes in as a Hutchinson corner was helped on by Douglas and Walker spun on it to convert from six yards.

Just two minutes later another corner was delivered by Hutchinson and this time Dwayne Cole-Parkes provided the header which crept over the line despite the attentions of both goalkeeper and defender.
It proved to be the killer goal with the Woods going close to adding to their tally when both Liam McGrath and Gbenga Adelana firing over from good positions. Hendon never gave up though and managed to hit the crossbar from distance with the final kick of the game.

Report: ALAN EVANS



         
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