Leicestershire Senior League

Division 1

Tuesday 20th August 2019

Kick Off 18.30 Actual 18.32

Greenhill Youth Council 5 Anstey Town 4, attendance 73

12’ 0-1

38’ 0-2

42’ 1-2

46’ 1-3

64’ 1-4

68’ 2-4

70’ 3-4

82’ 4-4

86’ 5-4

@ Greenhill Youth Centre

Cropston Drive

Coalville

LE67 4HS

No Admission or Programme.

Greenhill Youth Council are new into the Leicestershire Senior League this season and by virtue of having won the North Leicestershire League, it has seen them placed into Division 1, rather than Division 2, which would be the normal route for new entrants.

The area of Coalville that the ground is in is not the best. The shops have metal shutters, rather than windows and the local Co-Op went for the boarded up look, just to be a little different! The Youth Centre, which had no facilities, apart from a spectator toilet, fitted with the run down look of the area. From the car park, you walk past a small 3G cage and through a gate in the metal fencing, where behind the hedge are two pitches. Greenhill play on the one to the right, which they roped off on three sides for tonight’s match.

Anstey arrived here as league leaders, albeit after just the one match and Greenhill had opened their season with a 3-3 draw here on Saturday. Anstey led 1-2 at halftime and having increased their lead a minute into the second half, then making it 1-4 just after the hour mark, it looked all over. Greenhill lost quite a few players from their title winning team, moving on to other clubs who are paying them to play, but they still retain a good spirit. Two goals in as many minutes pulled it back to 3-4 with twenty minutes left to play. It only seemed a matter of time until they drew level, and sure enough, eight minutes from time, they scored with a header following a long throw in. Still time to get a winner and it duly arrived with four minutes left. Their young striker broke clear and smashed the ball into the bottom corner of the net giving the ‘keeper no chance. Anstey should have levelled it in stoppage time though, when a cross was somehow diverted wide of the open goal from a couple of yards out.