Waterside FC Reserves 2 vs 3 Real Rosehill

<p style="text-align: justify;">Real Rosehill's first game in a month saw a tidy result put them back to the top of the league by a point with a game in hand over second placed Waterside FC Reserves.

<p style="text-align: justify;">Real Rosehill opened the scoring in the first minute with a class team move assisted by Ben Stonham for Mark Newman to score on his first full match debut.

<p style="text-align: justify;">Things got even better in the 3rd minute when James Defreitas playing up front for a change with Ben scored following another team move, once again assisted by Ben.

<p style="text-align: justify;">Real were playing uphill and against the wind so was a very difficult proposition for Real Rosehill.

<p style="text-align: justify;">Waterside pulled a goal back on 15 minutes with another own goal from Ryan Cunnington following a corner.

<p style="text-align: justify;">The game continued to be scrappy and on 44 minutes Waterside levelled with bad defending once again from a corner with the ball going straight in the net.

<p style="text-align: justify;">The second half saw Real Rosehill gain momentum and have a lot more possession although missed a number of chances, going close on a couple of occasions notably a strike from James Sharp hitting the post and coming out.

<p style="text-align: justify;">Substitutions were made, Louis came off for Tom. Mark Newman was replaced by Dan Shrubb and Mark Newman replacing Dolding.

<p style="text-align: justify;">On 75 minutes a shot from outside the box from Sam was incredibly saved one handed by the Waterside Reserves FC keeper for James Defreitas to follow up on the rebound.

<p style="text-align: justify;">With 10 minutes to play the game's main talking point happened.

<p style="text-align: justify;">Waterside had a chance following a defensive error which was handled by Ryan C on the line and then handled again as the ball was hit back in, the ball ending up in the net.&nbsp;The referee blew for what we thought was a goal but he blew for the penalty and rightly sent Ryan off for the deliberate handball.

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Waterside Reserves penalty taker put the ball well wide, a let off for Rosehill.

<p style="text-align: justify;">With 10 men on the field Real continued to defend with James D playing in defence for the last 10 minutes. Ben&nbsp;ended up playing in midfield for the last 10 as well and won a couple of major tackles and running back was class.&nbsp;The game could have been all over had Shrubb finished a chance when he was through.

<p style="text-align: justify;">Dan did win the "Kaka I am worth &pound;107m award with some skilful ball juggling&nbsp;when under pressure in midfield.

<p style="text-align: justify;">All in all a battling performance with the only real classy performance from Whitty, although James D two goals was great. It was a tough game and could have done with not so good opponents as this was only our second game since the start of December.

<p style="text-align: justify;">Lots to learn from the game and need to up it big time for our next game which should be the cup semi final v Knowles next Sunday.

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