Essex & Suffolk Border League

Premier Division

Saturday 1st February 2020

Kick Off 14.30 Actual 14.35

Flitch United 2 Great Bentley 3, attendance 25

1’ 1-0

29’ 2-0

59’ 2-1

82’ 2-2

86’ 2-3

@ Alcott Playing Field

Oak Field

Stebbing

CM6 3SY

No Admission or Programme.

Today’s match was 3rd versus 4th in the league table. Flitch United were 7 points behind the leaders Stanway Pegasus, but with two games in hand. Great Bentley were two points further adrift, but have an additional two games in hand, so they were both still very much in with a shout of winning the league.

Flitch United scored after just 30 seconds when a speculative shot found the bottom corner of the net from the edge of the box. It was 2-0 half an hour in, with a volleyed finish from twenty yards. Great Bentley had actually had the better chances, but it took them until just before the hour mark to make a breakthrough, when a cross from the right was chested down and guided into the bottom corner from 6 yards. They really pressed for an equaliser, which they finally got with eight minutes left, heading in from a corner. The inevitable winner followed four minutes later. The ball was hooked back across the six yard box and scrambled in at the far post.