HULLBRIDGE 0 HORNCHURCH 1

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Saturday 14-July-2018

HULLBRIDGE SPORTS 0  HORNCHURCH 1

 

HS - Alfie Cobden, Sam Taylor, Conor Mead, Philip Lawson, Luke McEverley, Jamal Allen, Joe Pattison, Emmanuel Okunja, Michael Salako, Luke Hornsley, Adebola Sotoyinbo

Subs - Declan (GK), Matt Rose, Andre, Nathan Scarborough, Finley Dopson

 

HFC - FH - Callum Chafer, Dave Collis, Jay Porter, Nathan Cooper, Dexter Peters, Tobi Coker, Lewwis Spence, Connor Hogan, Sean Marks, George Purcell, Leon McKenzie

 

HFC - SH - Callum Chafer, Dave Collis, Alex Bentley, Jordan Clark, Kenzer Lee, Tobi Coker, Nathan Livings, Brad Warner, Lewwis Spence, Dumebi Dumaka, Theo Fairweather-Johnson

Subs - George Saunders for Spence 52

Paulius Ditkevicius for Coker 62

Triallist for Collis 75

 

HULLBRIDGE SPORTS 0  HORNCHURCH 1

 

With the temperature touching 28 degrees, and in bright sunshine, it was not surprising that both teams adopted a leisurely approach to the opening pre-season game.

 

The first action came on nine minutes Tobi Coker was fouled ten yards outside the area. George Purcell stepped up to take the kick and the ball rebounded off the defensive wall.

 

Callum Chafer was called upon to save a difficult cross from Joe Pattison on the right, and a shot from Luke Hornsley was wide of the goal.

 

Leon McKenzie twice went close, his first attempt being well held by Alfie Cobden, and four minutes later when heheaded over from a Jay Porter Cross.

 

A McKenzie cross from the left just evaded Sean Marks, and close to half time Chafer had to punch away another dangerous cross from the right.

 

Predictably both sides made changes at the interval, and it was one of the newcomers, Dumebi Dumaka, who scored the only goal of the match when he neatly placed the ball past the keeper after good work by Theo Fairweather-Johnson.

 

More changes followed, and Hornchurch had several chances to have increased their lead - a shot from Fairweather-Johnson skimmed the bar, a Kenzer Lee from a corner was cleared off the line, Paulius Ditkevicius was thwarted by the keeper in a one on one situation, and two fine crosses from George Saunders went begging across the goal. Whilst in the final minute it was Chafer who was called upon to make an excellent save to keep a close range shot out of the net.