First Team Match Reports 2008 - 2009

Long Eaton won their 7th game on the bounce and kept their 11th clean sheet of the season to move up to 4th place in the NCEL Premier League.

With Alex Steadman still under suspension Blues named the same side that progressed in the FA Vase last Saturday.

On a muddy pitch that sloped in almost every direction United refused to sink to the oppositions level and despite constant intimidation played good football throughout the game.

Long Eaton have lost only two games in the last seventeen and moved into 4th place after an emphatic 4-2 win at Dennyfield.

Fifth place Selby were seven points behind the League leaders with four games in hand at the start of the game and will be one of the teams in the mix come next April, but these days Blues believe the

A clean sheet and three points was just what the doctor ordered after the mid week mauling at Bridlington. In a first half devoid of clear cut chances neither side could take control of the game.

FA CUP 2ND QUALIFYING ROUND

BEWDLEY: Harper, Hardiman, Carter, Middleton, Paskin, Smith , Hough (cpt), Holt, Poutney, Forbes, Ludlow. Subs: Wright, Godfrey, Lacey, Hart, Poutney.

Shifnal: Watson, Andrewartha (cpt), Jones, Brown, Simms, Holdcroft, Wells, Barnfield, Gregg, Jackson, Jevons.
Subs: Hitchcroft, Hall, Dubidat, Hancox, Stevens (GK), Cain, Davies