1st Team v Harefield United

No. 44    Saturday 14th March 2015.     Spartan South Midlands League – Premier Division
Kings Langley               5 (Hutchins 42p, 80, Hitchcock 56, Weiss 86, 90+2)    
Harefield United            0
A top of the table clash started as a tactical encounter, with few chances other than a 30yard snapshot from Dean Hitchcock just over and a close range effort from Alex Campana smothered. However, the game burst into life four minutes from the break when Mitchell Weiss was felled and Danny Hutchins fired home the penalty with his usual confidence. The Hares’ reaction was disproportionate and when Lee Burgoyne tackled Liam Hind minutes later, the latter’s reaction merited a straight red, following which the visitors continued their complaints into the tunnel. Kings reacted by keeping their cool, while Harefield channelled their energies into having the best of the opening ten minutes, but when Hutchins delivered a right wing cross to deep centre, Dean Hitchcock blasted a low shot which Matt Elston-Bull got a hand to at the far post but could only watch as the ball spun over the line. Charlie Crowley was called into serious action on the hour to parry a fierce shot from Ben Gill and Kieran Gradwell missed a point blank header, but the rising tide of home pressure saw the ten men swamped in the final ten minutes. The third goal came when Nick Jackson delivered a ball to Danny Hutchins wide right and his first time strike with the outside of his foot was poetry in motion. Mitchell Weiss, who seemed to have been the centre of the away side’s attention since the penalty incident, found the perfect response when he back-heeled home a Campana cross and then rose to head a Tom Carter cross in off the underside of the bar in time added on to complete the scoreline.