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3-0 on the road at $tockport County.
Ian speaks to Ben and Dave, who were in attendance, about a 6/7 performance up North.
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The youth teams of the Yeovil Town Community Sports Trust picked up four wins in their opening round of Junior Premier League on Saturday.
The Trust’s Under-11s, Under-12s, Under-13s and Under-14s sides all won in their opening fixtures, but the Under-15s and Under-16s went down to defeats.
The Trust does not publish scorelines – that’s not what it’s about at that age – but did confirm their sides scored 28 goals across their six matches – a pretty good average.
Yeovil Town Under-18s suffered a 3-1 home defeat to Bridgwater United Academy in their second game of the new South West Counties League on Saturday.
Trailing 2-0, Jonny Lye scored a late goal to give the young Glovers a chance in the match at Alvington, but a late third from the visitors put the game beyond Yeovil.
Yeovil Town: William Armstrong, Callum Deemer, Max Dyer, Jake Graziano, Ollie Haste, Joshua John, Jonny Lye, Darren Mcalastair, Benjani Junior Mwaruwari, Callum Smalley, Fin Skiverton. Substitutes: Mason Alden, Korey Andrews, Samuel Hodges, Robert Holland, Joshua Sutton.
Venue: Edgeley Park
Saturday, September 11 2021, 3pm kick-off.
Conditions: Dry but dull
Ground: Fine
Scorers: Wakefield 26 (1-0), Quigley pen 53 (2-0), Yussuf 86 (3-0)
Attendance: 5,231 (207 away fans)
Referee: Scott Jackson
Bookings:
Yeovil: Knowles 8, Gorman 78, Smith 79
Stockport County: None
Sendings off:
Yeovil: None
Stockport County: Palmer, 52
Yeovil Town : (4-4-1-1)
Grant Smith
Dan Moss, Max Hunt, Luke Wilkinson, Jordan Barnett
Charlie Wakefield, Dale Gorman, Josh Staunton, Tom Knowles
Sonny Blu Lo-Everton
Joe Quigley
Subs: Alex Bradley (for Knowles, 76), Adi Yussuf (for Lo-Everton, 81), Toby Stephens (for Wakefield, 89) (for Wilkinson, 28), Max Evans (not used), Morgan Williams (not used).
Stockport County: Hinchcliffe, Hogan, Palmer, Barclay (for Fryers, 46), Southam-Hales, Rooney, Whitfield, Raikhy (for Walker, 32), Croasdale, Madden, Reid (for Dünnwald-Turan,66).
Substitutes (not used): Collar, Ross.
A complete performance saw Yeovil Town pull off the result of the as they cruised to a 3-0 win at one of the National League’s promotion favourites Stockport County.
Charlie Wakefield opened the scoring after 26 minutes before a second half penalty from Joe Quigley which led to the dismissal of defender Ash Palmer and a late third from substitute Adi Yussuf sealed the victory.
The performance was unquestionably the Glovers’ best of the season so far and one manager Darren Sarll described as “right up there” in the best during his time in charge.
It can be said that the expensively assembled Stockport side, boasting the likes of Paddy Madden, Ben Whitfield, John Rooney and last season’s top-scorer Alex Reid, did not look like a side worthy of their lofty credentials, credit must go to the visitors for nullifying their hosts.
Here’s how David Coates saw it from the away end…..
For the second weekend in a row, Darren Sarll was able to named an unchanged starting XI as he went with the same team that won 1-0 at home to FC Halifax Town seven days earlier.
We had been told to expect a Stockport side which dominated possession but did very little with it and that was how it proved to be with nothing that threatened the visitors’ back four of Moss, Hunt, Wilkinson and Barnett.
The game’s first meaningful opportunity fell to Wakefield who linked up with Sonny Blu Lo-Everton who was playing in the number 10 role behind Quigley for the third consecutive match. That set Wakefield away but his effort was turned around the post by Ben Hinchcliffe in the Stockport goal.
Following a performance which rather passed him by against Halifax, this was a very different Lo-Everton with the Watford loanee added a little more robustness to his undoubted quality on the ball.
Perhaps with opponents more akin to himself, he was not subjected to the rough and tumble he may experience against less cultured midfielder, but there was plenty to like about his performance.
That sparked a spell of pressure with Madden, who found himself playing almost permanently in midfield looking for the ball in the first half, having to scramble a corner wide before Josh Staunton‘s header called Hinchcliffe back in to action.
So when WAKEFIELD open the scoring on 26 minutes, there was no doubt it was a well-deserved advantage. Strong play for Quigley saw him find Lo-Everton whose lovely side-footed pass picked out Wakefield arriving on the right of the area to smash a superb angled drive in to the far corner.
Dale Gorman forced a flying stop out of Hinchliffe soon after before Stockport boss Simon Rusk made a tactical change to try with Tom Walker replacing Arjan Raikhy, who joined from Premier League Aston Villa where in the summer where he was a highly-rated member of the academy.
The move was testament to the tactics of Rusk’s opposite number whose tactics driven by the disciplined performances of Staunton and Gorman nullified their expensively-assembled opponents.
As he and his team-mates celebrated in front of the 200 travelling supporters, the boos rang out around Edgeley Park.
Striker Adi Yussuf is starting to find his fitness having arrived late in to the Yeovil Town squad, according to manager Darren Sarll.
The 29-year-old arrived at Huish Park less than a month ago and has appeared as a substitute in the Glovers’ opening three mtches.
He opened his goal-scoring account with the third in a 3-0 win at Stockport County on Saturday having replaced Sonny Blu Lo-Everton with nine minutes remaining.
Speaking after the game, the manager said: “The third goal was all about Adi’s pace and power. We have to remember a lot of these younger players have had (much longer) to prepare and it does take players coming in later time to get up to speed.
“I have felt in the last couple of games that Adi has been a huge presence at a time when we have needed pace, power and directness which is obviously a nice contrast to Sonny (Blu Lo-Everton).”
The former Solihull Moors and Wrexham man missed two good chances having come on as a second half substitute in the 1-0 home win over FC Halifax Town seven days earlier.
Darren Sarll said his side’s performance in a 3-0 win at Stockport County was “right up there” during his time at the club.
The Yeovil Town boss heaped praised midfielders Dale Gorman and Josh Staunton and defender Max Hunt for their performances ay Edgeley Park.
Goals from Charlie Wakefield, a penalty from Joe Quigley and a late third from substitute Adi Yussuf wrapped up a comfortable win.
Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Sheridan Robins after the game, the manager said: “I thought we were very good first half, tactically we were excellent and (Dale) Gorman and (Josh) Staunton orchestrated that performance, they were brilliant in midfield.
“We certainly deserved to be 1-0 to the good (at half-time) and we had a couple of good moments before that.
“Charlie (Wakefield) has tried to improve (the goal-scoring) part of his game in the past couple of weeks and then it was about ensuring our mentality was not to hold on for dear life.
“We were more like ‘let’s go and play again’ whilst being aware of tactical situations but let’s try and get another goal.”
Of Hunt’s performance, the boss added: “I thought he was incredible. I think at the end of last year a couple of teams will have looked at Max and thought ‘maybe we can get some change out of him here.’
“But today he was fearless, he was confident and his heading from set plays was amazing.”
Midfielder Dale Gorman says the performance in a 3-0 win away at Stockport County was down to the structure which has been drilled in to the team by its coaching staff.
The Northern Irishman, who joined from Glentoran in the summer, was at the heart of the performance against an expensively-assembled opposition, but insisted that he believes his team-mates can put in performances against any side.
Speaking to BBC Somerset reporter Sheridan Robins after the game, he said: “I don’t think it matters who we were playing today, I think we won today because we were well-structured and everything we learnt (in training) in the week manifested itself well.
“My form comes from the staff, it is drilled in to us every day and when you win like we have today it makes it that bit sweeter.
“The staff have been drilling us since Day One, we look organised, we look fit and it is starting to show now game by game.
“We know the calibre of player that Stockport has, but it is about players like me and a few of the other players using our experience. I don’t think that fazed any of us and today we were bang on it.
“We showed today how good we are and how together we are and it is good to get another win.”
Gorman has struck up an impressive relationship with Josh Staunton in the middle of the park and said that his team-mates had made his integration in to the squad an easy one.
He said: “The changing room is one of the easiest I have walked in to, sometimes that can be quite tough for a player.
“But we have some good players and some experienced players and when you join all that together, you have seen what we can do as a team today.”
Yeovil Town name an unchanged starting XI for the second consecutive match as they prepare to take on Stockport County at Edgeley Park (3pm kick-off)
The same team, including substitutes, is the same as the one which beat FC Halifax Town last weekend.
For the home side, former Glovers Paddy Madden and Ben Whitfield are named in the starting XI.
Yeovil Town: Smith, Barnett, Wilkinson, Hunt, Moss, Staunton, Gorman, Wakefield, Knowles, Lo-Everton, Quigley. Subs: Evans, Bradley, Williams, Stephens, Yussuf.
Stockport County: Hinchcliffe, Hogan, Palmer, Barclay, Southam-Hales, Rooney, Raikhy, Whitfield, Croasdale, Madden, Reid. Subs: Ross, Collar, Walker, Dunnwald-Turan, Fryers.
The youth teams of the Yeovil Town Community Sports Trust get their Junior Premier League seasons underway this weekend.
The Trust runs age groups from under-11s through to under-16s in the league with its two youngest age groups facing Juventus Devon – quite a name!
Good luck to all the teams in their season openers.
