A Swift two halfs

Swift 4 Barely 2

A beautifully crisp Sunday morning saw the troops of Barely take on the mighty Swift who boasted 13 players against the 9 Barely regulars plus 2 mates of Richie: Scott and Bradley. 


The game started well with Barely playing 4 5 1 with John Rossetti the loan striker. 


Barely took the game to Swift and found themselves 1-0 up through a slick move from a Cormack corner the ball buried in the net by newcomer Bradley. This was followed up by Dazza bombing down the right wing and smashing the crossbar. Shortly before half time the minute but nimble Swift number 10 made the game level with a neat finish onto the bottom corner. 

Half time arrived and a buoyant but tiring Barely trooped off for a breather and to regalvanise. It has to be said that Mike and Danny put a decent shift on goal with Mike in particular making a finger tips save to keep the scores level.

The second half started with Dazza in goal and Mike returning to central defence. 

Barely started well and found themselves 2.1 up after some good interplay between Cormack and Rossetti ending up with Chris drilling a shot beyond their keeper. Chris was honest enough to admit he was going for the far corner, but contrived to curl it in off the near post. 

Swift were changing subs religiously every 15 minutes and unfortunately Barely boasted an empty bench nevertheless Rossetti and Batts had chances to make it 3-1 before Swift sucker-punched. A long ball over the top was majestically controlled by that Swift no 10 who placed the ball beyond Dazza. And then 5 minutes later the same ball over the top confused Scott and Mike, as they both went for the same ball and collided leaving the Swift no 9 with a tap-in past Dazza. Colin went between the sticks for the last 15 minutes, and had the pleasure of picking the ball out of the net when the no 10 finished the game with a deserved hat trick. 

Suffice to say Barely played well and peppered the Swift goal throughout the 90 minutes and there were certainly a lot of positives to be taken from the game.

Thanks to Swift for the pre Cup work out and well done to all who played .

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