1st Team v Codicote

No. 44   Saturday 12th April 2014.     Spartan South Midlands League – Division 1
Kings Langley                          6 (Insley 34,51,77, Carter 52, Campana 59, Weiss 90+1)
Codicote                                    0 
A Paul Insley hat-trick and a second half tsunami finally swept away Codicote after Kings had laboured to a single goal interval lead. The visitors began in a combative style that earned them two yellows and saw the Kings’ physio on the pitch three times in the first 15 minutes. Connor Toomey then endured ten minutes of frustration when his flying header was narrowly wide, his drive was cleared off the line and a snap shot hit the bar. However, when Dean Hitchcock and Jack Pattison combined to play him in, his unselfish flick set up Paul Insley to open the scoring ten minutes before the interval. After Toomey and Gary Connolly had further good efforts thwarted, the second period opened in similar fashion, with a grounded Billy Barnes saving from Insley. But the striker made no mistake when getting on the end of an Alex Campana cross and sixty seconds later an interpassing move between Campana, Hitchcock and Toomey ended with Tom Carter firing past the overworked Barnes. Kings then made it three in seven minutes when Callum Adebiyi launched a long through ball to Campana who beat the keeper in a one-on-one and the talisman was then withdrawn as a precautionary measure. A spectacular bicycle kick was just over from Paul Insley, but when a surging run and shot from Jack Johnson was parried, he was on hand to pick up the scraps and complete a deserved hat-trick. A James Taylor header was just wide for the visitors and Ant Ladyman made a point blank save from Josh Bronte to preserve his clean sheet. Luke Ladyman slotted seamlessly into the central defensive role with a powerful performance and the finale to a satisfactory afternoon’s work was when subs Billy Stevens and Mitchell Weiss combined in the dying moments to give the latter a well taken goal.