City vs Histon

[stamoo]

Well we snatched a point very late in the day after it looked like a home defeat when it should have been a comfortable win. Histon's keeper pulled of a superb save to deny Daniel Nti's free kick and made several other good saves. As always it was in the goal scoring department where we fell short after dominating most of the game. All credit to Carl for bringing Ethan Moore on as an 'impact' sub, he made the difference when he came on and Histons defence suddenly looked really rocky, why can't he play like that for a full 90 minutes? Fair play to the lads who never stopped pushing for a result. Martin Devany showed some skilful touches and I was impressed by his commitment he was really going for it right to the very end. In the end felt we deserved a win but under the circumstances happy to get a point.

[simples]

On another day against another keeper we would have been out of sight by half time. He denied Nti on 4 occasions with excellent saves. He tipped over an effort from Moore just before the penalty with an excellent reflex save. Just as we entered stoppage time Hutchison fell in the area and a penalty was awarded. Despite the antics of the keeper Moore kept his cool to bring the City level, the very least they deserved.

By this time Histon were a man down, their forward got himself booked for time wasting and moments later got a second yellow when he went in on the City keeper following a through ball that had already been gathered. Absolute madness. His sending off certainly took the pressure off the City defence as up to then Histon had made good use of the wind to get at our defenders.

As mentioned above Devaney was definitely up for it, the commitment was there from all the team. It also looks as though Nti may be a free kick specialist being denied twice today by absolutely brilliant saves.

[steved]

But for a superb performance by their keeper it always looked like a game we could win. I have really enjoyed the performance of Martin Devaney in the last two home matches. His skill, trickery and endeavour have been a treat.

Another high spot has been Wayne Thomas. He has, quite literally, been a big player for us. So assured and confident. Great back four at the moment with either Tyler or George getting my vote for the seasons best player.

A big well done to the management team for finding the players that have helped us to move up the table.

[Tim Munslow]

As far as I was concerned, whilst disappointed by the result, it was the Callum Kitcha show: if the Histon goalie has had a better game than that then I'd be surprised.