BARKINGSIDE REPORT

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Monday 17-August-2015 – League Cup

BARKINGSIDE  0  HORNCHURCH  9

 

BFC – Sam Heard – Joe Killingback - Aundre Spencer – Paul Wright – Kev Ward – Alusine Bangura – Kane Wilson – Simon Mbonkwi – Brian Moses – Tunde Ademwunmi – Marvin Lawrence

Subs – Marvin – Lee Scott – Sam banffour – Nico Williams – Kevin Planange-Tabil – Keiland Tullach-Weekes

 

 

 

HFC –

1 – Sam Mott – Callum Chafer 69

2 – Billy Coyne

3 – Jed Chouman

4 – Elliot Styles ©

5 – Leon Smith

6 – Joey May – Paulisu Ditkevicius 61

7 – Abs Thompson – Dave Collis 64

8 – Calvin Poku

0 – Tom Pennells

10 – Tobi Joseph

11 – Junior Luke

 

Sub – David Knight

 

Scorers – Poku 25 – Coyne 31 – Styles 37 - Poku 39p – Poku 41 – Poku 60 – Poku 78 – Joseph 83 – Joseph 87

 

Attendance 145

Officials – Nick Bloy with Dave Gainsford and Damien Buhagiar

 

BARKINGSIDE  0  HORNCHURCH  9

 

Hornchurch had the better of the play in the first fifteen minutes, without being able to find a way through. Calvin Poku made a good run but could not control a difficult ball and fired over the bar, whilst Elliot Styles headed over from a Joey May corner.

 

Poku broke through on 15 minutes but was tackled inside the area as he was about to shoot, and Hornchurch went ahead when Calvin Poku headed home powerfully from a Joey May free kick.

 

The second goal followed in spectacular fashion when Billy Coyne hit home a hard drive from 40 yards out, the keeper getting a hand to the ball but not being able to prevent it from crossing the line.

 

Elliot Styles headed home from a Joey May corner on 37 minutes, his first goal since October 2013 when he scored against Bowers & Pitsea in the Essex Senior Cup.

 

Poku netted twice more before the interval, the first being a penalty for hand ball on 38 minutes and the second when he outpaced the home defence three minutes later, rounded the keeper and stroked home.

 

Hornchurch did not ease up in the second half and went close when Abs Thompson centred to Tobi Joseph, whose header came back off the bar.

 

Sam Mott made an excellent save at the other end, before Calvin Poku scored his fourth of the night, taking a pass from Tom Pennells and calmly placing the ball past the goalkeeper.

 

Paulius Ditkevicius replaced May, and Dave Collis came on for Thompson, and shortly afterwards, Sam Mott was replaced by Calvin Chafer, whose first touch of the ball was a good save from a shot from the edge of the area.

 

Calvin Poku scored his fifth of the night when he gained possession inside the area and neatly lobbed the ball over the keeper and into the net, and Tobi Joseph got onto the score sheet when he took a pass from Jed Chouman and fired home.

 

Chafer was called into action to field a well-flighted corner, and three minutes from time Poku played the ball to Tobi Joseph who took the ball around the keeper before slotting home.

 

Paulius Ditkevicius almost added another, but his shot went wide, as did a further attempt by Tobi Joseph, as Hornchurch earned their biggest win since they beat Leyton by a similar score in March 2008.

 

This was Hornchurch’s best away win in senior football, their previous highest being 8-1 on three occasions, the last of which was against Polytechnic in the Amateur Cup in September 1954.

 

Only two other players have scored five in a match - Ernie Coote (twice in 1947) and Alan Brett in 1987 - but no one has scored five in an away match before.

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Hornchurch are away to Waltham Abbey in the next round on 15-September.