Sun Sports v Bromsgrove Sporting          7th January 2017            FA Vase 4th Rd

Sun suffered heartbreak on the biggest day of the club's history on Saturday as they fell to Bromsgrove Sporting in the FA Vase 4th round.
A record breaking crowd of 320 at Bellmountwood Avenue saw Sporting beat Sports 4-0.
 
Sun started well as Dom David found a bit of room in the opening minutes to fire a shot but the effort went well wide.
After 5 minutes and Bromsgrove were ahead, a free kick from just inside the Sun half was lofted over the Sun defence and found Reece Hewitt in the right place at the right time to volley the ball past Matty Evans to make it 1-0.
Sun tried to get back into the game from a corner but a Kyle Johnson header went over the bar.
After that and Bromsgrove took full control of the game for the majority of the match.
Being in the Midland league First Division certainly belittles their status and it’s a sure sign that they won't be there for much longer with the speed of their players who constantly pressed hard whenever Sun players  had the ball.
The replacement keeper Leech from Sporting got down well to save a shot from Dom David but unfortunately that was to be the only Sun shot on target for the Watford team for the whole match.
Sun players were advised to keep the ball on the ground for most of their set pieces as the Sporting defence mopped any high balls into the area.
But high balls certainly didn't worry the Bromsgrove attack as they pumped balls into the area, one had to be scrambled away off the line and Matty Evans was on hand to safely punch the ball away on more than one occasion.
Jason Cowley had a couple of efforts for Bromsgrove, One being an unsuccessful overhead kick while the other being blocked saved by Evans who came out bravely to thwart him while Robbie Bunn had a shot from the right side of the box which flew narrowly over the bar.
Half time and there was still only one goal in it, but the Sun knew that they were in a tough battle and would need to pull out something extraordinary to get through this round.
But things remained the same in the second half as Sporting continued to push
forward while the boys in yellow weren't performing as well as they could.
And the Bromsgrove pressure finally told on the Sun when a soft cross wasn't cleared properly finding the dangerous Jason Cowley on the edge of the box who fired in a low shot to make it 2-0.
The dream was rapidly fading for the Sun and before they knew it they were three down from a one two in the area between Andy Nichol and Somalian international Ahmed Ali whose looping strike found the back of the net.
Then came the icing on the Bromsgrove cake as Reece Hewitt went through the Sun defence like a hot knife through butter as he glided past players with the ball attached to his foot and then calmly placed it in the Sun goal to make it 4-0 to give the travelling support more dreams of cup glory ahead.
 
Sun Sports can have no complaints about the result and would like to wish Bromsgrove Sporting the very best for the next round and the rest of this season.