Reserve Team Match Reports

Hamworthy Recreation FC Reserves took an early lead only to get pegged back by 9 men Dorchester Sports FC to clinch a very impressive tactical away win in the Dorset Premier League.

The home started the brighter, on the front foot from the start, forcing the first corner within the first 2 mins, they continued to probe and this paid off in the 7th minute, Henry Barham played a defence splitting pass to Charlie Harries who ran between the full back and centre back to pick the ball up in the box, sit the goalkeeper down before rifling the ball home from 6 yards. This spurred Sports into life and the game become very end to end with both midfields seeing a lot of the ball. On 18 mins a ball was played forward to Charlie Harries who ran at the Sports back line, the centre back (No.18) was deemed to have elbowed the Ham Rec player in the face and was shown a straight Red Card. This seemed to spur the Sports players on and on 27th min Alex Godfrey beat the offside trap, 1v1 with the Ham Rec GK but narrowly placed his shot wide, he did however get his goal on 35 mins, a shot was hit from the edge of the Ham Rec box, came off the crossbar for Godfrey to pick up and slot home for the equaliser. On 38 mins the home side worked the ball down the left-hand side, lifted the ball into the penalty area only for Ollie Wilson to miss a free header to put the home side ahead at the break. Sports then mounted a counterattack, went up the other end, Godfrey ran across the penalty area and shot to the opposite side of the goal to score his and Sports 2nd. Then came a moment of madness, Matt Kerse was played through, and the Sports GK came rushing out to block him, miss timed his challenge and fouled Kerse on the edge of the penalty area, referee showed Nick Hutchings a straight Red Card. In the commotion that followed Ollie Wilson was also shown a Red Card for “telling the GK what he thought of him”, Ham Rec down to 10, Sports down to 9. HT 1-2

The second half started with Ham Rec Res trying to get back on the front foot and take the game to 9 men Sports, however Sports had other ideas and broke up play and stifled Rec at every opportunity to control the tempo and frustrate the Ham Rec players. This worked in Sports favour who on 65 mins managed a good counterattack, catching Ham Rec players out of position, they countered down their left, fired a low cross into the Ham Rec penalty area for it to collide with Gavin Haynes and ricochet into the goal, 1-3. Ham Rec again tried to get back into the game throwing everything at Sports but the dug in, frustrated Rec and were happy to sit the game out and play at their tempo, however in 84th min they found themselves again on a counter attack down their right, the ball was clipped in from the right wing, picked up by Josh Leake who pinned his defender, pivoted and rifled his shot into the far top corner to seal the victory for the visitors showing their experience and game management in the DPL. FT 1-4

Holt Utd 0 Hamworthy Recreation Res 1 - 20 August 2024

Photo courtesy of Matt & Cameron Gale – [Behind The Fence Photography]

Holt United hosted this match at Gaunts Common, playing against Hamworthy Recreation Reserves in the Dorset Premier Football League looking to continue their fine start to the season with Rec fresh from their 1st win at the weekend looking to cause an upset

The game started well with both teams passing the ball well and communicating with each other on both sides. Possession throughout this half remained fairly consistent from both sides. Both teams had a few chances to score a goal. A mistake from Holt United’s defence and a speculative cross not being dealt with, led to a goal headed in from Hamworthy Recreation’s OLLIE WOOLIE in the 40th minute.

HT 0-1.

Going into the second half, Holt United seemed to be struggling to keep possession and find openings. The game became seemingly lethargic and needing more tempo from the Holt side. At around the 65 minute mark, Holt began to pick up the pace and get back into the game, allowing Ali Garard a shot on target. Another shot on target from Holt United’s Jamie Power results in a save from the Hamworthy Recreation goalkeeper. Possession continued to be fairly even for both teams throughout the second half. Unfortunately, Holt United couldn’t find the back of the net in the game and the score ended 0-1 to Hamworthy Recreation Reserves