After a free weekend we are back in action at TPF against
Hythe are currently the number 7 in the table with 50 points out of 33 games. They scored 64 and conceded 55 goals.
Top scorer: Ansah with 26 goals.
Hythe lost 6 of their last 8 away games;1 draw and 1 win.
Hopefully we will do much better then the away game against them ( lost 1-3 with 3 goals from Ansah)
And we? Surely we have to win at least 3 more games to have a good points per game for the play offs. We have the team at the moment with the most goals scored (69) at that must be our strength!
Your last opportunity to vote for Player and Goal of the Season, voting forms by the Programme table.
Also Jack Dixon’s 200th game for the club, assuming he plays which I sincerely hope he does. Should be a crowd of well over 500
Hythe scored from one of their only attacks in the first half and from a defensive slip. Zak Ansah hardly had a touch of the ball. We were a bit unlucky with the keeper making some good saves and us hitting the woodwork twice. Thought our approach play was a bit too slow for most of the game and lacked a bit of urgency. We thoroughly deserved our equaliser in the second half and our substitutions helped. Pressing forward so much we got caught out a few times towards the end of the game and either side could have snatched a winner with Louis Rogers making a couple of good saves. Typically, I thought the 2 ex-Hastings players for Hythe, Ollie Rowe and Mitchell Dickinson played really well as centre halves. Going to need a bit of luck to overtake Horsham now.
This was a game we should and would have won, with a bit of luck, but ultimately could have lost. Hythe certainly provided decent opposition today making us work hard for half chances but we can count ourselves a bit unlucky to see two great efforts come off the wordwork.
Still got playoff positions to battle for but it has all become a bit harder after today. Pretty decent entertainment though for a 500+ crowd and another bumper crowd due on Easter Monday.
Thought it was a really lively and competitive game between well-matched but very different sides. We had most of the possession and most of the chances, hitting the woodwork twice and forcing their enormous keeper into a number of decent stops. But they kept a threat on the break too, and Louis Rogers made two or three last-ditch interventions in the second half. One of those that we should've won and might've lost; thoroughly enjoyable in isolation, somewhat frustrating in the context of the league table.
