Penalty defeat at The Beacon of Light.

Penalty defeat at The Beacon of Light.

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Penalty defeat at The Beacon of Light.

5-5 draw v MUAS FC

The first event of 2025, our anniversary year, ended in defeat, albeit an excellent game.

For once, Marc McDermont had a good game, so no easy scapegoats were available, but this was our third defeat out of four games, despite having an accomplished team, so the Technical Committee are investigating.

The only team we’d beaten at the BOL was David Murton’s petrol sniffing, stoner team, while the defeats came against substance free players.

For this one, a couple of mistakes led to a couple of goals given away, but overall, both teams had decent chances, and both goalkeepers played well.

The teams were evenly balanced, and probably strengthened from the last encounter indoors, with Sassco’s line up including Kevin Cooper, Paul McConville, Liam Paul, Mick Rawlinson, John Harper, Marc McDermont, Andy Kibble, Davinder Sangha, James Collinson and Stephen Forster – all players with previous Sassco experience and only Forster making his first 9-a-side appearance for Sassco.

The new Erima kit made a debut as well – keeping the tradition of losing in new kits.

MUAS started strong before Sassco scored the opener from Mick Rawlinson, after Liam Paul forced the ‘keeper into a save. It was then a period of brief dominance from Sassco, which was reversed when MUAS fired in two quick goals. Shortly after this, a superb cross from Liam Paul, saw Rawlinson head his second. Either side of the half saw McConville fire in two goals, with two assists from Rawlinson.

By this time Andy Kibble hobbled off and MUAS kept clawing the game back, having a number of chances before scoring two goals. At this late stage, Rawlinson fired in his hat-trick; deservedly self-made, having won the ball off a MUAS defender.

Inevitably, MUAS equalised again and the last ten or so minutes of the game were surprisingly goalless.

In the subsequent shootout, MUAS took the game 5-4 on penalties.

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Penalty defeat at The Beacon of Light.