1st Team v AFC Dunstable

No. 14    Saturday 27th September 2014.     Spartan South Midlands League – Premier Division
Kings Langley                   0
AFC Dunstable                  2  (Hartley 46,81)
After four games on the road, there was no happy return to home for Kings Langley, with a 2-0 defeat at the hands of a workmanlike AFC Dunstable side. The first half was an even, if physical, affair with an early Mitchell Weiss shot parried by Louis Porcelli and Daryl Atkins putting the rebound wide. As Kings continued to have the better of the first fifteen minutes, an Atkins lob was over both keeper and bar and Porcelli did well to save with his feet from a Weiss break. The visitors then took their turn to have the better chances with Cooper shooting wide when through, a free kick parried by debutant keeper Mayson Tewkesbury and Hartley missing a chance from a poor clearance. The home side then finished the half strongly with a good move between Nick Jackson and Atkins finishing just wide and Jack Pattison firing narrowly over. But Dunstable got the perfect start on resumption when danger man Jimmy Hartley had the whole goal to aim at after a shot had been cleared off the line.  As the visitors seized the game, Cooper missed a good chance, but Atkins was marginally wide when put through and Weiss was again foiled by an brave Porcelli save at his feet. When Harold Joseph hit the post from a corner, Kings sensed it was not to be their day and AFC turned the screw, demanding a full length save from Tewkesbury and seeing a James Bishop curler sail just wide. Hartley put the issue beyond any doubt in the 81st minute, turning and firing home a power shot to round off an impressive display and a well marshalled defence comfortably contained any sporadic home attacks to seal the points.