1st Team v Hoddesdon Town

No. 13    18th September 2012.     Spartan South Midlands League - Division 1
Hoddesdon Town            5 (Jamie Brandon 10,42,45, Robbie Carroll 13, Ben Andreos 50,)
Kings Langley                  3  (Nathan Pooley 70, Callum Adebiyi 75, Jimmy Armstrong 81)
For over an hour, Kings Langley served up a horror show and were rightly hammered by Hoddesdon. They then restored a degree of pride by fighting back to register three goals in eleven minutes to leave Town looking nervously over their shoulders, but it was a case of too little, too late. After the early exchanges, Jamie Brandon looked to two yards offside when he received a right wing ball, but he had plenty to do before cutting in and beating defender and keeper. A Robbie Carroll bullet header from a cross doubled the lead and Kings were then out-passed, out-fought and out-played by the home side, who gave them no time on the ball. The sum of Kings serious attacks were a couple of shots on the run by Nathan Pooley, before the defence got themselves in a total mess to let Jamie Brandon complete a well taken hat-trick with two in three minutes just before the break. A double half time substitution introduced some grit and guile, but when the defence lost the ball again, Ben Andreos was presented with a gift. Partially fit Jimmy Armstrong, on at the break, bought a smart save out of Reece Buck, as did a Gary Coyle shot, but a Sam Warrell cross was clinically fired home by Nathan Pooley and then Warrell’s corner received a towering header from Callum Adebiyi. Craig Lynskey’s cross was then turned in by Armstrong, but when the referee controversially awarded Liam James a straight red for a tackle that seemed hard but fair, hopes of an unlikely comeback were stifled.      Line-up (4-4-1-1)