Tamworth Men's Seconds Vs Sutton Coldfield 6

Tamworth 2nds picked up their 1st win of the season vs Sutton on Saturday.

A strong Tamworth line up saw much domination of the game, with control of possession and the lion share of the chances.  The home side had early chances to take the lead and eventually broke the deadlock through some lovely hockey seeing Dave Belson find the bottom corner to make it 1-0.  Tamworth continued to move the ball well and make neat combinations and the chances kept coming, Holloway finding the net from the top of the D after a good short corner routine taking the home side 2-0 at the half time interval.

Sutton fielding lots of youth, did on occasions look dangerous on the counterattack, but this was well marshalled by the Tamworth defence, especially in the first 10 minutes in the 2nd half and included a penalty flick save by in form Keeper Jack Corden.  After this scare it kicked Tamworth in to gear and with in a 10 minute period they took the game beyond Sutton – as a superb team goal, filled with one touch hockey saw Hutchins square the ball to Nutter who fired home from close range.  Belson then added his 2nd through a neat finish and Hutchins, deserving a goal after several opportunities flicked into the roof of the net after another short corner to make the score 5-0.

The youngsters of Sutton who continued to work hard finally made one of their attacks pay off with a nice bit of skill as the keeper was ground and lobbed the ball from top D into the back of the net with defenders scrambling to clear it, making it 5-1.  In the final moments Sutton had a short corner routine break down, seeing Tamworth fly on to the counter attack and had 5 on 2, James Goode receiving the ball closed down on the defence and GK and slotted it home nicely to round off the match with a 6-1 home win!