Essex Senior League – Ground-Hop Day Match #2
Venue: Kitchener Road
Attendance: 60
2017-18 Season – Match 37
Saturday 11th November 2017 2.30pm KO
Waltham Forest: White Shirts, Blue Shorts, Blue Socks
Woodford Town (2017): Yellow Shirts, White Shorts, White Socks
Scott W reporting (Twitter: @ScottMHC14)
On a nice afternoon at Kitchener Road, Waltham Forest took on Woodford Town in the second match of the designated three with altered kick-offs as part of ‘Ground-Hop Day’. Forest announced this week that they are crowd-funding with the objective of preserving the club beyond this season with the club’s 150th anniversary approaching next term.
In the opening twenty minutes of this encounter, Forest did look the stronger of the two sides with recent signing Chid Okonwai leading the line for the hosts. Twice in the opening half, Okonwai forced visiting stopper Nick Wilson into decent saves. As we headed for the half-hour point, the visitors started to move up a gear with a long-range effort being spilled by Forest goalkeeper Mohammed for a corner. Nine minutes before the break, Woodford took the lead as Mohammed saved a initial shot though the ball fell to forward Asher Modeste who made no mistake.
Half-Time: Waltham Forest 0 – 1 Woodford Town (2017)
The second half began well for the visiting side as they doubled their advantage four minutes in with a powerful drive by forward Ethan Kessel. Forest responded on 67 minutes as two substitutes combined with Daniel Medina’s cross finding Joe Creasey who had a tap-in. The joy for the hosts was short-lived though as Kessel got his second of the afternoon for Woodford just two minutes later to seal the points for Dee Safer’s men.
The match faded somewhat after that though Forest’s Fahad Nazor struck a post with 15 minutes to play and Okonwai couldn’t get his name on the score-sheet as his curling effort went over the bar.
Full-Time: Waltham Forest 1 – 3 Woodford Town (2017)
Creasey 67’ | Modeste 36’, Kessel 49’ & 69’
Teams: Due to Woodford Town’s team-sheet being unavailable, the teams are not listed in this article, my apologies.
Referee: Lukas Wood
Assistant Referees: Michael Iddenden-Smith & Jeremy Mott
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