Friday, 17 March 2017

London Tigers v Sun Sports          18th October 2016            SSML Premier

Sun Sports came back twice from two goals down against London Tigers on Tuesday night.
The Tigers roared off after only a minute of play when a scrambled goal gave them a dream start.
The first half was mainly in the Tigers control as an out of sorts Sun failed to turn up for the majority of the half.
When Sun did try to attack the Tigers defence lapped up the headers and used a long ball to counter against the Sun defenders who had pushed up.
But when Tom Gibson managed to push forward he found Dom David who controlled the ball in the area and let fly with the ball flying into the net.
Just when it looked like the Sun were going to put some effort into the first half London Tigers caught the Sun defence napping and slipped the ball under the advancing Drew Oliver.
Adam Drakulic managed to let off a long range shot that bounced off the crossbar which was the last talking point of the first half.
Words had certainly been spoken in the Sun dressing room as the Sun players came out as the team that work hard for each other.
Tommy Walsh had a free kick that went just over the bar and Chris Blunden ran down the right and hit a shot on target which the Tigers keeper managed to keep a hold of.
But then as the Sun continued to press forward, Jamie Speer passed to Chris Blunden whose deft flick found Andy Brennan.
Brennan laid the ball to George Hobson who hit the ball low and hard first time from the edge of the box to make it 2-2.
Soon after the goal was scored Sun Sports were given a free kick and Chris Blunden hit a dipping shot that beat the keeper, hit the crossbar and bounced down to find Liam James in the right place at the right time to head the ball into the net to complete a fantastic comeback.
Dom David tusselled with a couple of defenders on the left side and hit a long and high cross which swirled in the air and came down hitting the crossbar.
London Tigers then went forward and tried desperately to get an equaliser and bombarded the Sun defence for the final ten minutes of them match.
And they had the chance to do just that when the referee gave Tigers a soft penalty.
Sixteen year old league debutant Drew Oliver in goal for the boys in yellow stood firm and went the right way to save the penalty and kept the Sun's three points.
Sun Sports have now won four games on the trot and move up to 9th place in the league.

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