TWINWOODS THISTLE 0 - 14 (FOURTEEN!) KINGS AFC

THIS MATCH IS NOW A FRIENDLY AS TWINWOODS DROPPED OUT OF THE LEAGUE ON 7TH MARCH 2008

All official club statistics have now taken this into account.

Saturday 17th November 2007

Kings: Sansom, Wilson, Loosemore, Dyer, Cain, Haywood (c), Sacbuker, Morgan (Huntley), N.Clements (J.Clements), M.Whelan, Tomlin (Barber)

Half time score: 0-9

Kings AFC Scorers: N.Clements (5, Five!), Tomlin, Morgan (3), M.Whelan (2), Huntley, Cain, Sacbuker

Booking: Haywood (Yellow)

MAN OF THE MATCH LEE MORGAN

Match report by Lee Morgan

The pre match team talk by manager Stuart Minty and Club Captain Adam Haywood clearly put the message across – Don’t under estimate your opponent. With this on the players mind, the focus was to start strongly… which in hindsight was definitely achieved.

Kings began an early onslaught with Nathan Clements getting hold of the ball on the left hand side of the penalty area, rounding two players and squaring to Tomlin to finish in the bottom corner. 1 – 0.

Kings continued to dominate and forced a succession of corners. Sacbuker placed a corner onto Morgan’s head, who finished neatly from 6 yards. 2 – 0

With Kings going 2 – 0 up so quickly, it could have led to them taking the foot off the gas. However contrary to this and with motivation being directed by Wilson & Haywood, Kings continued to press forward. Within minutes Wilson picked up the ball in the right back position, played a 1 – 2 with Kewell and sent Morgan through who finished left footed into the bottom right hand corner. 3 - 0.

By this stage, you could see Nathan Clements wanted to score like Dyer & Cain wanted to keep a clean sheet. Marcus got hold of the ball after a good throw in from Loosemore, he turned two defenders and returned the favour to Clements who finished exquisitely from 6 yards. 4 – 0 and barely 15 minutes played.

Sustained pressure from Kings saw Haywood picking the ball up 25 yards from goal and thundered one low and hard, the keeper managed to palm the ball out, only for Clements to pounce, who somehow blazed over from 5 yards!! This would have destroyed some striker’s confidence, but the assassin was about to show his team mates how you should respond in this situation…

Seconds later, Morgan picked the ball up from a Tomlin flick on and slipped the ball through to Clements who sped past the last defender and finished past the on rushing keeper. 5 – 0.

Despite domination from the Kings team, they still wanted more goals, with Sacbuker sending Nath through into the area, who was blatantly hacked down with no penalty given!

Brushing this aside, the outstanding Kewell wanted to get in on the act, after being released by Wilson he ran past 3 defenders as if they weren’t there and squared the ball to Sacbuker, who on the edge of the area, unleashed a left footed rocket that went in off the cross bar. Stunning stuff and 6 – 0

Kewell was beginning to have fun on the right hand side and combined well with Wilson who played a delightful ball to send Morgan through and this time he finished top right corner from 18 yards. Morgan’s first hat trick for Kings. 7 – 0.

Clements was then sent through with another quality ball from Tomlin and tried to lift the ball over the keeper. As time appeared to stop the whippet of a keeper managed to get a finger nail to the effort which went for another corner! Sacbuker sent the resulting corner over and Haywood was unlucky not score with his goal bound effort deflecting off a defender.

Then a Tomlin throw in was held up by Morgan who held off his man and just managed to inch the ball past the keeper with N Clements finishing off the move from close range for 8 – 0.

Kewell was showing complete domination down the right wing, and sent Clements through again and with strong upper body strength finished past the keeper from a tight angle. 9 – 0

Half time must have felt like a long time coming with the game dead and buried with an unassailable 9 goal lead for Kings.

Minty tried to ensure the team weren’t becoming over confident… keeping a clean sheet, maintaining discipline and ensuring we attacked as well in the first half were the priorities.

In wasn’t long before Kings were back in the groove though with Clements grabbing a record breaking fifth of the match, rushing onto a midfield through ball and burying the ball in the bottom corner of the net – 10 – 0.

With a rare Twinwood attack Dyer headed the ball out to the half way line, where Clements picked up Morgan on the right wing. Morgan waited for support and sent a through ball for Kewell to run onto and shoot at goal. The keeper palmed away the effort only for Haywood to chip the ball back across goal for Kewell to rifle home. 11 – 0

The outstanding Morgan, Tomlin & Clements then made way for Josh Clements, Tendai & Barber, who were all eager to get in on the action. It really was a job well done for the three players who had contributed 9 of the 11 goals of the game so far.

There was no sign of Kings taking their foot off the gas however as Whelan, who had now been switched to the left had side of midfield, scored with an incredible mazy run, beating 4 players and the keeper to place the ball home for his second of the game and Kings TWELTH!

Haywood and Sacbuker continued to battle for every loose ball in the centre, playing the ball to Josh Clements who unselfishly released Huntley to get a nick on the ball and past the ball for 13 – 0.

King’s remained calm and composed in possession, other than a rush of blood to the head which saw Captain Haywood get booked for a rash tackle. Sansom and the Kings defence never really looking in doubt to pick up their 4th clean sheet in their last 5 games. A superb record.

With the game now drawing to an end, Cain stepped up into midfield and got into the thick of the action, he played a delightful 1 – 2 with Wilson and after receiving the ball back, looked like running in on goal when the Twinwoods defenders caught him up. Not to be out done, a few moments later, Wilson took a throw in from the right which was well protected by Joshy, who allowed the ball to squeeze through to Cain who wrapped up the scoring by hitting a bobbling shot left footed in the side of the net. 14-0 and a stunning performance all around.
 
A quality performance that saw several Kings records broken. Including:

Most Clean Sheets in a season
Most Goals in one match (5 by Nathan Clements)
Highest Scoring Game
Biggest Victory
Extended our unbeaten WINNING run to 10 matches

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Kewell actually passed to Morgan