Tue 28th Jan 2020
Herts Charity Shield
Colney Heath 3-2 TAFC First team
TAFC goals: Alie Bangura, Marcus Mealing (pen)
THE FOLLOWING REPORT HAS BEEN TAKEN FROM COLNEY HEATH'S WEBSITE
CHFC First Team 3 - 2 Tring Athletic
Home | 28 January 2020
Well what a semi-final this turned out to be as the Magpies hit back from being 2-0 down to win the match 3-2 with Jon Clements bagging all of our goals and so the holders of the Herts Charity Shield move into their 3rd final on the trot.
So it was an exciting match to watch with thrills and spills for both teams, 3 penalties, 2 red cards and a few yellows plus a disallowed goal as well and the shout for the Magpies at the moment is one for Clemo, 2 for Clemo and 3 for Clemo so how many more was the prolific goal scorer going to get this season as he took his tally to 32. Watch this space I say!
Early into the game Andy Sears-Black nearly open the scoring for Colney Heath as he hit a searing cross-field shot from the left that whizzing past Charlie Mann's left hand post with him thinking thank goodness for that as just watched the ball fly past him.
Both sides continued to press each other but they found either teams defence not giving way until the 21st minute when Marcus Mealing was bundled off the ball by Danny May and so Tring were awarded a penalty. Marcus MEALING took the resulting spot himself and sent the ball straight down the middle sending Connor Sansom the wrong way to give Tring Athletic a 1-0 lead.
The Magpies tried to hit back and Andy Sears-Black went close with a header following a corner from Danny May and then Colney Heath thought they had scored an equalizer when a Chris Griffin header had come back off the crossbar and Andy Sears-Black racing in headed the ball into the back of the net, but the flag had gone up for offside and Griffin was the culprit!
Jon Clements, Spencer Clarke-Mardel and Callum Dudrenec all had shots blocked before the break and that is how the score remained at half time 1-0 to Tring.
After a bit of early pressure by the Magpies the game then saw Tring take a 2-0 lead when Marcus Mealing sped away down the left wing and crossed the ball low into the Magpies box whereupon Alie BANGURA swept the ball low past Sansom giving him no chance to make a save. Score 0-2.
Oh dear what could the Magpies do now, well on 50 minutes Jon Clements made great run into the box whereupon Aaron Jewell brought him down and it was the turn of Colney Heath to be awarded a penalty. Up stepped JON CLEMENTS himself and duly dispatched the ball into the bottom right corner to make it 2-1 and so game on now.
Well on 62 minutes the Magpies won another penalty when Charlie Mann beat away a cracking shot from Jon Clements and as Spencer Clarke-Mardel chased the loose ball he was instantly taken out by Charlie Mann and so another spot kick was awarded. Again, JON CLEMENTS took the penalty and without ado he buried the ball into the far corner with Mann diving the wrong way to make the score now 2-2.
Now there was really a game on and so the Tring defence were looking all shaky at the back when following a highball forward from Sansom saw the centre half's get in each other's way and the ball dropped kindly for JON CLEMENTS who sidestepped another defender to create space for him to send a sizzling low drive into the far corner beating Mann easily and in doing so saw him complete his hat-trick and give the Magpies a 3-2 lead.
Later in the game Marcus Mealing took out Dominic Knaggs which resulted in a lot of pushing and shoving and when order was restored, we saw Mulik Rickman for Tring and Yasin Boodhoo for Colney Heath both sent off.
Jon Clements had two more fine strikes pushed around the post by Charlie Mann with Sears-Black having a firm saved as the Magpies looked for more goals to put the game to bed but a 3-2 victory was enough and on to the final for the 3rd season in a row. Well done lads.
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