The Saints went down 2-5 aginst Bartestree, the score doesn’t reflect the how the game actually went.
It was the visitors who started the brighter and went close with a couple of long range efforts which went just wide of Ian Jones in the home goal. It took the Saints a good ten minutes to get hold of the ball and once they did a quick attack in the 15th minute saw them go 1-0 up, a cross from Ben Bevan found Josh Wisnieski in the box, the striker played the ball into the path of midfielder Mike Havard who placed his shot past the diving visitors keeper.
Within a minute of the restart it was 1-1 after a 22 yard effort flew by Jones into the top corner giving him no chance.
The rest of the half was end to end and it looked it would be 1-1 at the break until Saints Captain Chris Preece tripped a Bartestree striker in the box which resulted a penalty that was converted well. ht 1-2.
The Saints were dealt a blow at half time with keeper Jones having to come off with a reccurence of his knee injury, defender Josh Davies donned the keepers shirt.
Bartestree v Saints.
The second saw a lot of Saints pressure, in the 50th minute Wisniewski made it 2-2 with a lovely left foot curling shot. The Saints had the visitors peg back for 40 minutes in the second half and missed numerous efforts, to go ahead,in the 86th minute it was 2-4 after a break away goal, two minutes later it was 2-5 after another break away and a good finish. ft 2-5.
Ben Bevan in action.
The scoreline suggests we were well beaten, we dominted the second half and really should of put the game beyond them but we just couldn’t find the back of the net, their linesman said to me ” Jesus you could have scored 7 by now”.
I thought Josh Wis, Ben Bevan and Chris Preece stood out for us on the day.