Biggleswade United v Sun Sports - 18th March 2017    SSML

The Biggleswade United fan’s “favourite” Dom David came on as a sub in a close encounter of the fourth kind to keep the Sun’s unbeaten record against United this season.
With this away win at Second Meadow, a home draw and two drawn matches in the FA Vase (which the Sun won the replay on penalties). “Sully’s Army” have proved themselves worthy of competing and indeed winning against a top four side of the Spartan South Midlands Premier League.
The Sun had the first serious attempt at goal with Jack “JJ” Johnson wiggling past a couple of United players but had his shot blocked at the moment of connection.
Young keeper Drew Oliver, making his last appearance for the first team for the moment with the return of Matty Evans on Tuesday, was soon in action when a long range shot was saved as he stretched to his left to cover the ball.
Clement Asante worked well up front, battling for possession and holding the ball up well, had a chance when he manoeuvred around a couple of United defenders and then scored a perfect ten as he fell in the area. The referee pointed straight to the spot much the chagrin of the Biggleswade defence.
Up stepped George Hobson to take the spot kick, but he didn’t seem to hit it as well as he would have liked and chose accuracy instead of power which helped the Biggleswade keeper Robbie Pontin save the kick.
United went close with a long range strike from Black which went narrowly over the bar and once again the Sun were involved in an end to end tussle with the opposition.
From a Hobson free kick he found an unmarked Jamie Speer on the left of the box who volleyed a difficult shot at an awkward angle goal bound which hit the side netting.
Disaster nearly struck as Norwegian commentator and one time Tromso forward Simen Møller cut inside in the box and put a cross over which the oncoming United forward missed with his head but Damien Cruickshank following behind headed the ball hitting his own post!
The Sun continued to make some great moves with some fantastic one touch inter-passing play showing their own brand of “Ticki-tacka” football.
George Hobson, despite his penalty miss, was certainly on fine form spreading some impressive long passes switching play from one side of the field to the other.
As the first half came to a close Drew Oliver rushed off his line to clear the ball only for it to find Møller who hit the ball back towards an empty Sun goal. Drew ran as fast as he could to get back to the goal line and managed to hook the ball off of the line to save embarrassment.
Sun Sports started strong in the second half and pressed hard in the opening minutes, bombarding the penalty area with crosses and shots and the United defence were unable to get out of their own half for a while.
The boys in yellow continued to push up and took the game to United, who were finding it difficult to break the hold that the Sun had on the game.
The United fans thought that they had gone a goal up when a free kick flew just over the crossbar, and the Biggleswade team then had their moment to put the heat on the Sun when they had their chances to open the scoring with a cross that was headed just wide of the post, a shot from Iwediuno which Drew Oliver got down to brilliantly to his right to deflect the ball away and a shot which went so wide that it went out for a throw in!!
A cross from JJ was fumbled by the Biggleswade keeper and Clement Asante tried to get there first to knock the ball in but the keeper managed to dive onto the ball at the second attempt.
Owusu came on for Biggleswade United and gave the Bedfordshire team some fresh ideas as well as fresh legs which gave the Sun some problems.
So Sun manager Tim O’Sullivan decided it was time to bring on the big gun of the Biggleswade fan’s star player….Dom David, who came on to some ironic cheers!!
Møller then went through on goal on 69 minutes, but his shot was deflected just over the bar by some top notch last-ditch defending from Gary Wallace.
A few minutes later and a beautiful floating free kick found Dom who headed the ball into the Biggleswade goal to give the Sun the lead….the fan’s favourite was no longer loved by the opposition’s faithful!!
David was soon in action again shortly when a miskick from Ponting found Dom in space who had time to control the ball before hitting it perfectly bringing out a great save from the Biggleswade keeper to spare his blushes.
Some staunch defending from the Sun defence was needed in the closing minutes as United tried to get an equaliser but after an elongated injury time the ref finally blew for time and the Sun stopped Biggleswade United’s 12 game undefeated run with a performance to remember.
Next up will be another tough game with a trip to third place Cockfosters on Tuesday night.