Leicestershire Senior League
League Cup 1st Round
Tuesday 27th August 2019
Kick Off 18.30 Actual 18.32
Newbold Verdon 3 F.C. Guru Nanak Gurdwara 4, attendance 46
19’ 0-1
43’ 0-2 (pen)
66’ 1-2
76’ 1-3
84’ 1-4
87’ 2-4
90’+ 1, 3-4
@ Alans Way Sports Field
Alans Way
Newbold Verdon
LE9 9LB
No Admission or Programme.
Newbold Verdon are new into the league this season, coming from the North Leicestershire League and have joined Division 2. F.C. GNG finished third in the Premier Division last season, although they have apparently lost the majority of that team, plus the Manager, as they have moved on to play for a club higher up the pyramid. On paper though, this still looked like it could be the tie of the round.
GNG played the first six minutes with just 10 men as a car load of their players arrived late. They scored after 19 minutes and added a penalty just before halftime to lead 0-2 at the break. Newbold Verdon pulled a goal back twenty minutes into the second half, but GNG scored on a quick breakaway to make it 1-3 and it looked all over. It was soon 1-4 and GNG took their foot off the pedal. Newbold Verdon made it 2-4 with three minutes left. A minute into stoppage time it was 3-4 and then GNG were down to 10 men again when a player who was sin binned made a further comment to the Referee and received a straight red card instead, although he would have missed the final minutes whatever. There were six minutes of stoppage time played, with the light getting very gloomy, but GNG held on and we didn’t have to worry about whether it would be too dark to complete a penalty shoot out to decide matters.
