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Round Two

Saturday 10th November 2024

Tividale 0-2 Sutton United

Not Acceptable

On a weekend of honouring those that fell in the two world war’s and conflict’s since. It was an impeccable minutes silence from both set of players, staff and supporters

So far this season it has been fair to say that win. lose or draw, the lad’s cannot be faulted for their battling qualities and never say die attitude. When that doesn’t appear to be the case then they look a very poor side and that was the case in a very poor second half performance that saw us crash out of this season’s FA Vase.

Four changes were made to the starting eleven that kicked off in the midweek defeat at AFC Wulfrunians. In came Sam Bratt-Wyton, Harry Higginson, Luke Postle and Jordon Sangha in place of Jevani Robinson, Jamie Hunt, Ezekiel Agyemang and Lewis Derrick

The crossbar saved Ethan Hawkes blushes after just 6 minutes as a lob with the keeper in no man’s land just skims over the bar. Then Higginson had to put in a block to deny Sutton getting a shot off. Sutton continued to make the most of the possession and chances for the opening 25 minutes.

It was Tividale who finished the half the stronger when on 25 minutes Sutton keeper Gregg Lewis did well to turn a Ryan Piggott shot around the post for a corner and then an Abbas cross just fizzed past Lewis’s far post as the home side settle into their work.

Half Time: Tividale 0-0 Sutton United 

No one could have guessed what was going to happen in the second period as it was literally one way traffic from the kick off. First of all, Sutton’s captain Tom Masse’s cross evaded everyone in the Tividale box and skipped out for a goal kick. But on 50 minutes Sutton where ahead  Oli Jeeves is allowed to run at the heart of the Tividale defence he plays a one two with Scott Hardy and then beats Hawkes with his shot. Although the keeper does get something on it, he cannot stop the ball going in.

You would have thought that the goal would have stirred the home side into action but instead it was all Sutton and on 65 minutes Sutton double their lead courtesy of a Joe Gildea strike,  stealing in unmarked to get on the end of an Abdul Touaiti free kick with the Tividale defenders appealing in vain for offside!

Three minutes later and it could have been 3-0 with Hayden Froggatt through one on one with Hawkes but the keeper denied him with a great block. On 79 minutes Gildea was inches close to his second and Sutton’s 3^rd when he was just unable to get his shot on target.

With 5 minutes to go one of the assistants pulled up injured and had to be replaced holding up the game for about 5 minutes. The hold up did not put Sutton off their stride and Froggatt shot over after some great individual work.

Tividale did have a couple of chances of a consolation in the dying minutes, first  a strike from a corner rattled the Sutton crossbar and a Mario Mendez effort was comfortably held by Lewis.

In the end Tividale slipped meekly out of the competition and all the best to Sutton United in the next round, who deserved purely on the fact that they wanted it more.

Full Time: Tividale 0-2 Sutton United 

Tividale: 1. Ethan Hawkes, 2. Tom Rann (14. Jamie Hunt 75), 3. Sam Bratt-Wyton, 4. Raheem Akthar (12. Lewis Derrick 72), 5. Callum Lloyd, 6. Harry Higginson, 7. Luke Postle (16. Ezekiel Agyemang 55), 8. Jason Wood, 9. Ryan Piggott 10. Jordon Sangha, 11. Aon Mohammed Abbas (17. Mario Mendez 79)

Unused Subs: 15. Nashawn Blake