Ellon vs Huntly

A game in which the result was the most memorable thing.

From the whistle Huntly made heavy weather of the fixture, continually failing to get the ball under control and lacking awareness to use the space on the park.
Traffic was continually congested on the left wing, in the midfield where Ellons large No.12 controlled play, and no attempt was being made to use the acres of space on the right until almost by accident the ball broke right, and a quick throw in produced an opportunity for a cross into Duncan who slotted it away neatly.
The rest of the half was just as frustrating, with the ball being lumped indiscriminately from central defence, more often than not catching the forwards in an offside position repeatedly, or simply being picked up by Ellons midfield who were invariably first to the ball.
Despite this 2 more goals were scored in the half, one from Reilly following a good break, and another from Duncan capitalising on a poor kick out from Ellons GK, but the team then appeared to assume their work was done, and allowed Ellons own pressure to pay off and get one back.
HT 1-3

The second half started in the same vein, and although sub Manson had a few good runs down the right, two more goals were conceded, one after some dreadful midfield play gifted possession to Ellon leading to a free kick and free header, and another from a dreadfully missed offside decision.
As seems to be a developing pattern, the prospect of a draw, or worse, spurred a bit of urgency, and Reilly, Whyte & Manson started surging forward which lead to two more goals, from Donaldson & Reilly.
FT 3-5

There were so many things wrong today. Forwards repeatedly caught well offside, midfield needing too long on ball or trying too much fancy stuff, defense resorting to lumping the ball aimlessly, to total lack of awareness of space available elsewhere on the park.
GK Merson was perhaps the only standout, producing some really good saves, which saved any blushes.

But a win’s a win. I suppose.

Sorry for the negativity, but it really wasn’t good.

Edit: For a positive viewpoint. If you look at Ellons results this year they appear to be a hard team to beat, so to get a 3-5 result away whilst playing poorly, maybe isn't too bad.

Team:
GK Connor Merson
2 Greg McInnes
3 Jack Meinen
5 James Bremner
6 Ryan Higgins
8 Matthew Henderson
9 Kieran Rielly
14 Lewis White
16 Callum Duncan
21 Daniel Astridge
22 Lee Alexander

Subs:
12 Michael Dey - trialist
11 Liam Donaldson
15 Darren Manson

most teams are hard to beat when they spend most of the game with their entire defence trying to play offside on the half way line !!!!!