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Re: Billericay

By The Majors Hat22/7/2023 20:09Sat Jul 22 20:09:12 2023In response to Billericay

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Lost 4-2.
There was a team sheet that had most of our starting team listed.
1. Tyler Tobin (Uxbridge)
2. Barsa Mirtahmasebi (Egham)
3. Trialist
4. Stefan Powell (Egham)
5. Reece Yorke (Egham)
6. Tristan Vernal (Egham)
7. Trialist - It was 100% Excellence Muhemba (Egham)
8. Trialist - though I believe it was Nagheeb Ibrahim (Egham)
9. Reece Cameron (Arlesey)
10. Lonit Talla (Egham)
11. Charlie Mitchell (North Greenford)

The #3 I don't know who he is but he looked very good, so I hope he signs.

The first hour it was a very even game. They took the lead after 8 minutes. Cross from our right headed in at close range by ex Hayes forward, Emmanuel Moses.
We looked really good on the ball and pretty organised without it. Charlie Mitchell was with us pre season last year. Has scored 20+ a season at North Greenford from midfield the last 2 years.
He was linking up really well with the mystery left back.
Yorke and Vernal at CB looked solid and you could tell they have played together before.
Excellence looks a proper handful. Speed and power, coming in from the right - more of this shortly.
3 centre midfielders. Powell and Ibrahim? more holding ball winners and Talla who plays between the midfield and big man (Cameron) up front.
We missed a couple of chances and played some really nice stuff in the first half.
Equalised early on in the second half. Ball won in midfield. Slipped behind their left back for Mirtahmasebi to cut in towards the byline before fizzing a cross along the 6 yard box for Reece Cameron to slide home.
Billericay went back in the lead again when we failed to clear a loose ball in our box.
Excellence then scored a top class goal to draw us level. Picked up the ball close to the centre spot inside our half. Turned and ran through a couple of Billericay players who bounced off him, before looking up and unleashing a powerful shot that dipped over the home keeper and under the bar from 25 yards out.
Stunning goal.
At this point we made 7 outfield subs. I only recognised Keegan, who came on at right back.
Billericay left the majority of their starting XI on for another 10 minutes and when they did bring on subs, they brought on some experienced and big physical units.
We conceded 2 in the last 25 minutes and rarely looked like getting anywhere near their goal tbh. Gave the ball away nearly everytime we got it. That will always happen in pre season with trialists wanting to impress. You're not going to catch the eye playing a 5 yards pass, so you try and play a magic pass that might come off once in fifty attempts.
Really encouraged by what I saw from the starting team today.
I will add that from goal kicks we had both centre half's inside our 6 yard box, passing it between them and the keeper.
That's going to age a lot of us fans very quickly. Defibrillator attached to Babs tea hut might be a good idea if we are going to play out from goal kicks all season.

Edited by The Majors Hat at 20:12:00 on 22nd July 2023
Edited by The Majors Hat at 20:13:44 on 22nd July 2023
Edited by The Majors Hat at 05:55:28 on 23rd July 2023