Hampshire Premier League

Senior Division

Saturday 22nd February 2020

Kick Off 16.30 Actual 16.31

Liphook United 0 Infinity 4, attendance 33

26’ 0-1

62’ 0-2

66’ 0-3

82’ 0-4

@ Front Lawn Community Hub, 3G Pitch

Somborne Drive

Havant

PO9 5AN

No Admission or Programme.

It seems ridiculous that Liphook United played their ‘home’ game some twenty miles from their base, on a hired 3G pitch, but at least the unusual late kick off meant it gave me a double today and also completed visits to all the Hampshire Premier League grounds for me, as this is where Denmead play their matches in Division 1.

I saw Infinity lose 4-0 away at Bush Hill on the last day of last season, in what was a title decider, with both teams going into the match level on points, but with Bush Hill having the better goal difference. It looks very much like it being a two way battle for the title between the same two clubs this time round as well. Infinity came into this match unbeaten in the league this season, topping the league table, with 18 wins and 3 draws from their twenty one games. Bush Hill are currently third in the league table, some 15 points adrift, but they have four games in hand.

Infinity were just too good for Liphook (8th in the league table) in every department. Somehow, it took twenty six minutes before the breakthrough was made, when a cross from the right was headed in from six yards. It should have been all over by halftime, but Liphook rode their luck and it was still only 0-1 at halftime. The second half was more of the same and it was a case of just how many Infinity would score. Just after the hour mark it was all over. Two more headers, the first from a corner and the second headed past the ‘keeper at the near post, four minutes later, made it 0-3. The final goal came eight minutes from the end with a shot on the run finding the bottom corner of the net from the edge of the box.

The gap remains the same at the top of the league table after this as Bush Hill beat second placed Paulsgrove 5-1 today.