Win number six for youth team

Last updated : 19 October 2004 By Tony Scholes

Two more goals for Alex Taylor
The Clarets were by far the better side in a very one sided first half but we only able to score once throughout the first forty-five minutes. It came from a clearance from goalkeeper Michael Hale that was won by striker Kyle Lafferty.

He nodded it on for leading scorer Alex Taylor to race away with a one-on-one with the keeper and he placed it nicely beyond the keeper’s reach. This came after just seven minutes and everyone sat back for the avalanche.

We were playing some nice football with Marc Pugh a constant danger down the right, he was putting in some great crosses. Neal Trotman and Lafferty got on the end of two in particular but their headers went over the bar.

Taylor also got in a great header from a Pugh cross that went flying into the net past the keeper only to be ruled offside. Taylor had run from deep and it was an astonishing decision, presumably some other player in an offside position.

It should have been a bigger lead than the 1-0 at half time and that became more of an issue because in the second half, for whatever reason, we stopped playing. The good passing and movement from the first half had gone. We became jittery and passes were going astray.

Again though we had a goal disallowed, this time from Pugh, but Blackpool got on top and it was only a matter of time before they scored. And it duly came with about twenty minutes left.


It came from a corner that wasn’t cleared, Hale saved well from the first shot but it dropped to a Blackpool player who ‘lashed’ it into the net.

A defeat was on the cards now as Blackpool gained in confidence but we should have had a penalty when Lafferty was upended in the box.


However, Taylor popped up two minutes from the end to win it for us. He and the goalkeeper challenged for a cross from the left but Taylor got there first to head home.


It was a deserved victory, because of the first half performance but again, as last week at Rochdale, the performance over the ninety minutes was not consistent and there are now tough games coming up against Tranmere and Stockport where we will need to play well throughout the game.

The team was:


Michael Hale, Rob Henry, Neal Trotman, Chris McCann, Martin Reilly, Marc Pugh, Darrell Avery, Nicky Platt, Adam Jones (Tom Ince), Kyle Lafferty, Alex Taylor.


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