Oakham United vs Halesowen athletic
7 - 3
29 December 2017
Home league match played on 29 December 2017.
Kicked off at 10:30 AM
7-3
vs Halesowen athletic
Home league match
On a cold Friday morning it was Oakham’s final friendly before the season starts.
It was a slow start and found ourselves 2-0 down in the first 10 minutes.
20 minutes in and Callum Nicholls lost his cool and produced a late challenge on Halesowen’s number 10 this resulted in Nicholls being yellow carded.
Kowalski came on after 25 minutes and within 10 minutes pulled one back for Oakham. Last kick before half time and Nicholls whipped a ball into the box and Lowe scored a header to make it 2-2.
Second half started and Oakham started brightly with Carrick Anderson making it 3-2.
Kowalski played a brilliant ball to Rodgers who rounded the keeper but got brought down and Nicholls stepped up and scored from the penalty spot to make it 4-2. From then on Oakham was in control and made it 5-2 with Kowalski scoring a tap in but Halesowen pulled one back to make it 5-3.
Oakham scored 2 goals in the final 5 minutes when Halesowen was pushing men forward to get goals and Oakham hit them on the counter with Rodgers and Kowalski finishing the game.
Great performance and great confidence starting the league ...