Venue: The Town Ground, Mayfield Avenue, Heanor, Derbyshire
Competition: F.A. Vase 1st Round Replay
Referee: Hristo Karaivanov
Scorers: Gary Ricketts (26), Marc Strzyzewski (33), Keiran Debrouwer (47)
Line-ups:
Lions - Deakin, Marriott, Shaw, Jones, Hawes, Strzyzewski, Grantham, Moran, Ricketts, Piliero, Debrouwer
AFC - Brown, Perks, Jones, Sedgemore, Hill, Talbot, Howells, Rose-Laing, Greg, Stevenson, King
We've been to watch Heanor a few times this season, but this has to go down as the Lions' best all round performance we have seen at the Town Ground so far.
Both teams were a credit to their respective leagues and although the result looks comfortable, AFC never lost hope and threw everything at the home defence in the second half in an attempt to get something out of the game.
We received our usual friendly greeting from the Heanor officials, and also received a donation to the maggie's fund. Many thanks!!
The opening goal came after 26 minutes of play, Courey Grantham and Greg Marriott combining well down the right, and Marriott's superb ball across the face of the goal was buried by GARY RICKETTS.
MARC STRZYZEWSKI added the second on 33, belting home the loose ball after the home defence failed to deal with a Paulo Piliero corner from the left. H-T 2-0
The second period was only 90 seconds old when the home team increased their lead. Ricketts fired in a cross from the right to the far post that KEIRAN DEBROUWER managed to stab towards the goal. It looked like Jonathan Brown's save had kept the effort from entering the net, but he had imparted considerable spin on the ball whilst making the save, and the ball rolled past him and into the net.
AFC now began to control the game as they looked to salvage something, but with Ian Deakin in fine form and the back four looking solid, the visitors' toils were in vain. F-T 3-0
Admission: £5.00
Programme: £1.00
Attendance: 126
Charity: £2.25
