BIGGLESWADE TOWN 2 v REDDITCH UNITED 0

For those of you who read the NLP report for yesterday's game you will note a marked difference. The NLP insist on a reporting of the facts and figures not taking into account that the best 4 players for the Waders were the back line. Report that in 220 words and it looks like we had our backs against the wall. And, clearly we did not
Redditch arrived at the Langford Road stadium, seventh in the league and with a fierce reputationand a centre back stretched to nearly 7 foot tall.
From the off Waders played an uncharacteristic high line but to great effect. Connor Hall whistled a shot wide after 3 minutes and Biggleswade kept up a relentless pressure. At the Other end Big Gavin Hoyte, Russell short, Callum Lewis and Lucas Perry dealt with everything coming their way. Hoyte's heading distance and timing has dramatically improved over the past few weeks and Big Gav was certainly leading that back line so well. Our man between the sticks had one shot to save over the 90. Such was the dominance and imposed will of the Wader's defenders.
Redditch used to the 3G home pitch passed the ball sweetly with not a lot of forward movement, anything airborne was gathered by Hoyte or Short and the Redditch machine was stopped in its tracks. On 15 Craig Daniel started the move with Hall and Parker both involved, Craigy D got the ball back to shoot low to the keepers right for a deserved lead. 15 more and Daniel grabbed his brace for the afternoon. Starting on the left Connor Vincent whipped the ball off the fullback's toes, passed inside to Inih Effiong who pushed onto a surprised Craig Daniel to find the back of the net with the simplest of chances. The Waders pressed on as the Redditch heads dropped, unbelieving that they were being so contained.

After the break Biggleswade continued in the same way. I feel certain that a fully match fit Effiong would have buried the 3 chances he had one to one with the keeper, but the keeper did well on all 3 occasions. How many times is Effiong going to hit the bar this season? In the last 3 games his powerful free kicks have stung the opposition bar and gone away to safety. The only success for Redditch came in the 60th minute when Johnson unleashed a shot that our man did brilliantly to push round the post. That was it, our man a mere spectator for most of the game. Its always great to win but in such style is fantastic. No hesitation in naming the whole back line as men of the match. Well done Gavin, Russell, Callum and Lucas.

Arlesey up next in the league cup, Tuesday 4th October kick off 19.45. Up the Waders.

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