Deja vu? Bromley matched and even lead the league leaders for nearly an hour until once again they feel apart in monumental fashion and lost. There were 802 people in attendance for this match and fittingly the Bromley players wore black arm bands in tribute to John Fiorini, who died at this very fixture just over a year ago. He will never be replaced…
The first half saw The Ravens fighting hard for every ball, and also create a few chances. Ebon Mensar made his debut for this season at the back and his somewhat unique method of defending proved to be effective. Bartley worked hard up front and Danny Harwood was awesome all game and made a number of top draw saves. On 25 mins we went in front when Kirk Watts broke free on the half way line, avoided an attempt to bring him down and then left their keeper on his ass, before rolling the ball into the net. This was a true piece of football genius! The game got very moody leading up to the break and the yellow cards were flying around, but there were no more goals. Wilfort did have a great opportunity to put us 2 up, but he choked and put the ball over! Our high flying hosts actually looked rattled and their terrible band had fallen quiet.
After an even start to the second half the same thing happened to Bromley as last week, on 59 mins Bangura levelled the scores, on 61 mins Clark put The Ducks in front and on 63 mins Paris bravely headed their third! Game over… Our defence looked like Frank Bruno at the hands of Mike Tyson in 1988, you just wanted someone to stop us from taking anymore punishment.
Slowly we recovered, but there was never any real chance to pull a goal back, Bartley went closest with two lobs from outside the box that both went just over. 3-1 it finished and we could have no complaints.
Quote for the game, ‘We definitely can’t go up now!’
Harwwod, Frost, Harney, Wilfort, Mensar, Harris, Myatt, Silk, Bartley, G Watts, K Watts
Subs: Hollidge, Amaning, Gibson