MATCH SUMMARY : Eastern Suburbs Crumpton (25 May 2013)

<p>(by Ben Perry)

<p>Uni mount Quiche vs Eastern Suburbs 2-0. (A defenders perspective)<br /><br />The eagerly awaited return of (fairy) centre back Ben Perry had<br />arrived. And a clean sheet was always on the cards.<br />The Quiche so far this season have looked great, but have had a few<br />shock upsets against teams of a sub standard. Saturdays opposition<br />certainly weren't a sub standard team, and as we did against waiheke<br />we stepped up to the occasion and got a solid win to bolster our<br />position in second place. The re introduction of some key players was<br />also a major contribution to us winning this game.<br />The Quiche started the game strongly and played some great football<br />and pretty much dominated the first half. Although we had a few<br />chances it wasn't until late in the half that we opened up the scoring<br />through a calmly placed shot from Tom Hayward, who was set up by a<br />wonderfully carved through ball by Mp. Eastern Suburbs nearly got back<br />into the game as their striker broke through the defence and into our<br />penalty box, however a last ditch /superbly timed slide tackle by MOM<br />Ben Perry meant the Quiche went into the break 1-0.<br />We went into the second full of confidence and we looked good for the<br />first 10 or 15 minutes. But Eastern Suburbs turned up the heat and<br />started applying pressure on our back four. We were made more<br />vulnerable and the back and less threatening going forward as Tom left<br />the field due to a liver strain. The physio described it as a lack of<br />alcohol in the system or something like that. The game started heating<br />up and some rough challenges were being dished out. Our very own<br />Hobbit Matt Banks went on the offensive and sat a few people on their<br />arses!! Boom! A cool head was needed from our match official Larry, as<br />the Suburbs boys started flaring up due to frustration at a lack of<br />goals. Ray didn't help proceedings as he really managed to get under<br />the oppositions skin with a few choice words, well done mate.<br />The game was getting down to the wire and our defence were really put<br />to the test, it seemed to be a case of when they would score not if<br />they were going to score. Chris managed to pull of a great reaction<br />save pushing the ball over the bar and keeping us in the game.<br />However within the last 15 minutes Eastern Suburbs through the game<br />away with a blatant push inside their penalty box. As usual our very<br />own ass hole David Davies stood up to the plate and slotted home a<br />very well struck penalty, maintaining his 100% record. That was the<br />nail in the coffin for Suburbs and the Quiche managed to pull through<br />to the end and got a well deserved win against a team that are still<br />only one place behind us.<br />A big thank you to our loyal fans and mascot who sat through some<br />pretty torrid weather to cheer us on. As Matt Banks's mum liked to<br />point out the MOM award was controversial this week. But when you have<br />enough coin to pay the man making the decision who cares about<br />controversial. I was Awesome!<br />Until next time....