Woodbridge Town Football Club

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 RIDGEONS RESERVE LEAGUE NORTH DIVISION
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Saturday 1st November 2008
Woodbridge Town Reserves have played two home games during the last week, but have only managed to pick up 1 point following an entertaining draw with near-neighbours, Ipswich Wanderers & a heavy defeat, Woodbridge’s first loss of the season, at the hands of league leaders, Lowestoft.

WOODBRIDGE TOWN 3 IPSWICH WANDERERS 3

The visitors took a 2nd minute lead with a 25 yard strike following an exchange of passes in the midfield. Despite going behind, Woodbridge passed the ball with their usual style & had threatened an equalizer on a number of occasions before SEAN REA glanced home Danny Tatum’s cross with his head shortly before half-time.

ROB BIRD gave Woodbridge a deserved lead on the hour, converting Craig Jennings’ unselfish pass & Jack Lawrence was denied a goal when his shot hit the inside of the post & rolled across the line.

The game took a big swing wit 10 minutes left when the referee over-ruled an offside flag & while home defenders stopped, Wanderers took full advantage to level the scores.
The remaining few minutes saw both teams going for the winning goal with both goalkeepers making excellent saves. In the 1st minute of injury time, it looked as if the visitors would take home all 3 points when a terrific counter-attack was rounded off with an angled drive past Nathan Allison, but Woodbridge levelled the scores again as Jennings & Ryan Stafford kept a 94th minute free-kick alive & JORDAN SEAMAN fired an instinctive shot in off the far post.

WOODBRIDGE TOWN 0 LOWESTOFT 6

Despite being completely outplayed during the opening 45 minutes, Woodbridge somehow managed to deny table-toppers, Lowestoft from scoring with some last-gasp defending, although the visitors were also guilty of some wasteful finishing.

It wasn’t take too long into the 2nd half before the visitors had the ball in the back of the net, but it was ‘correctly’ ruled out for offside. Moments later though there was no reprieve when Lewis Rhodes tipped a shot onto the post only for the ball to rebound back onto his head & over the goal-line. It was Woodbridge’s turn to be denied a goal by a linesman’s flag when Rob Bird was adjudged ‘offside’ when turning in Jordan Seaman’s shot. This proved to be the home team’s only real effort on the Lowestoft goal afternoon & the visitors finally made their domination count in terms of goals as they rattled in a further 5 goals between the 62nd & 82nd minutes to confirm their place as league leaders & to inflict Woodbridge’s 1st defeat of the season.


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