A resurgent AFC Hayes took all 3 points against Royston on Tuesday evening.

With manager Paul Palmer making a couple of changes to the starting line up from the previous Saturday's draw at Bedford it was no surprise it took the Brook a little while to get into the game.

But with the back four of Ekpiteta,Desaguarante,Eccleston & Kinsella quickly nullifying the Royston attack the home midfield gradually took control of the game.

The 1st real opportunity fell to the Brook when on 31 minutes Alan Musoke's shot was comfortably saved by Yates in the Royston goal.

Debattista was working extremely hard up front for the Brook with Cass,Berry & Rhone setting up several good scoring opportunities but for the moment luck was against the home side.

However this changed in the 43 minute when a back pass to visiting keeper Yates resulted in him mis-kicking the ball under pressure from RYAN DEBATTISTA who rounded the despairing keeper & calmly placed the ball into the net.1-0

With only a couple of minutes of the half remaining Royston tried to get the equalizer but the Brook defence was in no mood to concede a goal and anything that managed to elude them was comfortably dealt with by Melvin Minter in the home goal again superbly deputizing for the injured Mazurek.H-T 1-0

The 2nd half started with the Brook working extremely hard to deny Royston time to settle & again the composure of Jordan Berry,Dominic Rhone & especially Jake Cass saw the Brook creating further scoring opportunities whilst at the other end excellent defence denied the visitors attack.

On 54 minutes a Jake Cass free kick rebounded off the crossbar & was cleared by the Royston defence.

On 66 minutes the Brook got their deserved reward with their & RYAN DEBATTISTA's 2nd goal.Showing great perseverance & skill he forced his way into the Royston area & shot past Yates.2-0

8 minutes later Debattista should have had his hat-trick when again he worked hard to get into a scoring position he put the ball wide of the post.

With Jake Cass effectively controlling the midfield & the back four looking solid Royston's opportunities were severely limited and you would have to think very hard to remember them having a meaningful scoring opportunity in the entire game.FT 2-0

AFC Hayes Team:Minter.Ekpiteta,Desagurante,Kinsella,Eccleston,Berry(Dawson),Cass(Capt),Manu,Debattista,Musoke(Azamuah),
Rhone(Brown).

Unused Sub: Baldwin

Goalscorer: Debattista 2 - 43 & 66 minutes

Man of Match: Ryan Debattista

Attendance: 73

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