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GULLS BEAT VILLA TO CREATE HISTORY

IT TOOK EXTRA TIME AND PENALTIES FOR GULLS TO BEAT TOP OF DIVISION 1 BENFLEET VILLA TODAY IN THE QUARTER FINALS OF THE COLIN TYLER CUP. 
 
GULLS WENT BEHIND TWICE IN THE GAME BUT MANAGED TO COME BACK EACH TIME TO PROVE TO BE WORTHY WINNERS IN A GAME THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A CLASSIC QUARTER FINAL AT ANY LEVEL.

GULLS WENT 1-0 DOWN 15MINS INTO THE FIRST HALF, GULLS CAME BACK STRONG BUT COULDNT FIND THE GOAL THEY WAS LOOKING FOR WITH PLENTY OF CROSSES COMING IN FROM OUT WIDE AND STONE MAKING VARIOUS RUNS FORWARD FROM FULL BACK AND PUT IN SOME EXCELLENT CROSSES.
 
SMITH AND HACKER WAS SOLID IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PARK BREAKING UP PLAY WELL AND MAKING SOME GOOD PASSES FORWARD.  STONE WENT CLOSE WITH A LEFT FOOT VOLLY FROM THE EDGE OF THE BOX BUT COULDNT MANAGE TO FIND THE TARGET. 

2ND HALF

GULLS STILL SEARCHING FOR THEIR GOAL TO KEEP THEM IN THE TIE.  GULLS HAD PLENTY OF CHANCES TO EQUALISE AND WIN THE GAME BUT STILL COULDNT MANAGE TO SCORE WITH SOME EXCELLENT DEFENDING FROM VILLA.

VILLA COULD ONLY DEFEND SO MUCH BEFORE GULLS OPENED THEIR ACCOUNT.  CHRIS BOURNE WHIPPED IN A FREE KICK FROM THE LEFT AND EDGAR ROSE WELL WITH A GLANCING HEADER INTO THE FAR CORNER OF THE NET GIVING THE VILLA KEEPER NO CHANCE, AND GIVING GULLS A CHANCE IN EXTRA TIME TO GET WHAT THEY DESERVED.

EXTRA TIME

GULLS AGAIN STARTED SLOPPY AND IT COST THEM, A LONG BALL FORWARD FROM THE VILLA BACK LINE WAS NOT DEALT WITH AND THE VILLA STRIKER SMASHED THEIR 2ND OF THE GAME OF THE GAME AND LOOKED TO BE THE WINNER.

GULLS SHOWED THE NEVER DIE ATTITUDE TODAY AND IT WAS VERY MUCH NEEDED TODAY IF THEY WANTED TO REACH THE SEMI FINALS.  THEY PUSHED ON AND KEPT BATTLING AWAY AND LOOKED AS IF THEY WAS NOT WALKING OFF THE PITCH WITHOUT ANYHING LESS THAN A WIN.

A BALL IN FROM EDGAR FOUND GOAL MACHINE MIKE BOURNE WHO HAD ONE TOUCH TO SET HIMSELF AND HIS SECOND TOUCH WAS A VOLLY FROM THE EDGE OF THE BOX WHICH FOUND THE TOP CORNER OF THE VILLA GOAL, WHO HAD 2 PLAYERS ON THE LINE AND THE 6"2 GOAL KEEPER WHO ALL 3 COULDNT DO ANYTHING ABOUT.

PENALTIES

MIKE BOURNE STEPPED UP FIRST, BUT SCUFFED HIS PENTALY WIDE AFTER THE VILLA CAPTAIN HAD ALREADY MISSED HIS PENALTY.

VILLA SCORED THEIR SECOND.

PHILLIPS STEPPED UP AND SMASHED HIS PENTALTY INTO THE BOTTOM LEFT OF THE GOAL.

VILLA SCORED

CHRIS BOURNE STEPPED UP AND SENT THE KEEPER THE WRONG WAY PASSING THE BALL CALMLY INTO THE GOAL.

VILLA MISSED

HACKER STEPPED UP AND PLACED A WELL TAKEN PENALTY INTO THE CORNER OF THE GOAL, THE KEEPER WAS AT FULL STRETCH AND STILL COULDNT REACH HACKER'S WELL TAKEN PENALTY.

VILLA MISS.

EDGAR STEPPED UP TO PUT GULLS INTO THE SEMI FINALS, AND STRUCK THE BALL INTO THE TOP RIGHT HAND CORNER OF THE GOAL AND GULLS MADE HISTORY FOR THE CLUB.