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Courtesy of:- Ray Lo, and the Spurs List
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FA Youth Cup 4th Round
White Hart Lane, Tottenham, N17
Wednesday 15th January 2003, 7pm ko
SPURS V SWINDON TOWN
(White/Blue) (Red/White)
3-4-1-2 4-4-2
1(0) 0(0)
Paul Rutherford 1 Steve Smith
Philip Ifil 2 Danny Taylor
Nicholas Wettner 3 Ian Oliver
David Tyrie 4 Dave Brampton
Danny Foster(C) 5 Luke Garrard
Ricky Dobson 6 Chris Taylor
Lee Barnett 7 James Hambridge
Mark Yeates 8 Michael Pook
Jamie Slabber 9 Mark Draycott
Michael Malcolm 10 Jamie Cheeseman
Jonathan Black 11 David Stroud
Mario Noto 12 Matty Bullman
(8) 90Mins.
Nicholas Eyre 13 Kyle Lapham
Daniel Perry 14 Aaron Salter
Liam Francis 15 Mark Jones
Owen Price 16 Justyn McKay
(11)79Mins. (7) 59Mins.
Scorer - Slabber 85 Mins.
Referee - N. Appleby
It was a mild evening with a good sized crowd for this 4th round tie. Pat
Holland chose an attacking line-up for this game with captain Foster at the
heart of a back line flanked by Tyrie on his right and Dobson on his left.
Barnett and Black played in the centre of midfield as Ifil took the right
wingback postion with wideman Wettner on the left. Man of the match Mark
Yeates played behind the front two of Slabber and Malcolm as the fulcrum of
the attack.
Spurs kicked off attacking the Paxton road and immediately put the
visitors on the defensive. Good approach play led to a few chances without
many strikes at goal. Swindon came to frustrate the home side with a very
well organised performance closing down quickly from the front, right to the
back as they looked to stop us playing with with a mainly negative display.
A lot of the Spurs play went through Yeates playing in the hole behind the
strikers and despite some close marking was able to send both Slabber and
Malcolm through balls as well as to the wings.
The ref was more lenient than in league games with the Robins challenges as the ball tended to escape unharmed in many tackles, but they did their job and kept the home
side out. Most of the play was in the Swindon half with Slabber followed by
Malcolm having efforts blocked as early as the seventh minute with Yeates,
Wettner, Black and Barnett also having a go before the interval, but most
attacks being halted by a solid backline. The visitors had very few forays
into our box with Draycott putting one centre just wide of the post being
the best.
The second half started much the same way that the first finished until
just after the hour mark when Swindon won a corner on the right which
prompted a spell of pressure when Draycott and Cheeseman both went close
and Rutherford made his first real save. The frustrated home side started
to push forward more as they looked for a way through the Robins defence
with Yeates prompting and Tyrie appearing in the last third as more balls
were pumped into the area but with poor final balls the defence held firm.
Tyrie had a shout for a penalty and Malcolm had an effort cleared off
the line.
With gaps appearing at the back Draycott lost out to Foster in a
two on one situation. With time running out Foster run with the ball from
deep in his own half firing just over before Holland brought Price on to
provide a better service from the right side with Yeates moving to a more
central position and it was from the substitute that the deadlock was
broken. With five minutes to go Price took a corner from the right curled
it to the near post for Jamie Slabber to nod in. The visitors pushed
everybody forward in an attempt to save the game which produced a couple of
close shaves before the final whistle.
The under 18's played well against a resolute defence that was not
prepared to concede ground and were unlucky not to score more. I think that
they could have done with the invention of Price earlier althought with his
temprament, it may have been a risk against the visitors defenders. We are
through to the next round with another home tie against either Crytal
Palace or Notts County who play next month. One other result tonight that
may interest readers was Millwall 2 Arsenal 1.
Ray
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