Sun Sports v Hadley                              11th April 2017                               SSMLP

Poor performance from Sun as Hadley dominate

An under par performance from the boys in yellow on Tuesday night helped Hadley climb out of the relegation zone and improve their goal difference all in the space of 90 frustrating minutes.
Being a reporter it’s easy to criticise when you are not the one running around the pitch but the Sun players would probably agree with me that this was not their finest hour and a half of the season.
Sun took the field in fine form and high in confidence and started off reasonably well although there may have been a little more showboating than usual in the first few minutes, which is all well and good when you’re maybe two goals up, but not the best idea against a team second from bottom of the table fighting for survival to stay alive in the Premier Division.
Hadley had the first chance and the Red’s fans thought that they had scored in the opening minutes when a shot hit the side netting.
Karl Penny had the first half decent chance for the Sun when he struck a shot after a nice three man move which was deflected by a defender.
Jamie Speer then got in a last ditch tackle in the area to stop the attacking wing back who strode through the Sun defence.
Both the left and right wing back’s of Hadley caused the Sun defence problems throughout the match and with their performance it made the mind boggle how the Arkley based team can be in such dire straights this season.
A neutral person watching the match would probably have assumed that the Sun were the team having relegation problems.
Then disaster struck as Laste Dombaxe struck a shot straight at Matty Evans, whether the ball swerved at the last moment we will never know but the ball seemed to squirm out of Evans hands and went into the Sun goal.
The Sun rallied and a looping Kerran Lataille cross found Kyle Johnson who turned to celebrate the goal but then saw the ball go the wrong side of the Hadley post.
With injury time of the first half being played Hadley found room in midfield to press forward and that man again Laste Dombaxe hit another long range strike which flew over the despairing dive of Matty Evans and into the Sun goal to make it 2-0.
A powerful Gary Wallace header from a corner was sent just wide of the post and the Sun would have to suffer the wrath of Tim, Gary, James and Pat in the dressing room
At the start of the second half and from a free kick Hadley thought that they had scored another goal which was ruled out for handball.
It was felt by many of the spectators that if the Sun could get a goal back then a comeback could possibly be on the cards as Hadley are known to have a wobble once they concede.
However the night wasn’t to be the Sun’s night and the lads just didn’t seem to be able to click as they have done so well this season.
With minutes to go Hadley caught the Sun on a counter attack and finally confirmed the three points were theirs when Ibrahim Lukulay kept his composure on a one to one with Matty Evans and slotted the ball home to make it 3-0.
So all in all it has to be put down to a bad day at the office, and the lads will have to put it down to experience. Just remember lad’s…
“Pick yourself up,
Dust yourself off,
and Start all over again.”