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ST PANTELEIMON 1 EGHAM TOWN 2

Tempest Ward14 Mar 2022 - 22:32
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Back to 3rd with our 5th double

CHERRY RED RECORDS COMBINED COUNTIES PREMIER NORTH
SATURDAY 14/03/2022
ST PANTELEIMON 1 (1) Emerson Silva
EGHAM TOWN 2 (2) Matthew (p), Costa

Egham Town moved back to 3rd place with this straightforward win against a St Panteleimon side whose form, up to last Tuesday’s 2-0 win at CB Hounslow United, had been wretched, with one point from 24. That midweek success might have been behind them taking the lead through Emerson Silva. This scribe cannot give a time check on when the ball went past Michael Edegbe, thanks to my late arrival caused by the relevant junction of the M25 being shut. Complete ignorance of the locale and at least one bad decision meant I got to the game when all the goals had been scored, about halfway through the first half. Brendan Matthew scored from the spot again, his third in the last three games, after a handball offence. The winner was, apparently, spectacular, I was told, a gem from Sandro Costa. It was, and now I have seen it, Costa taking the ball to just inside the box on the left side, teasing two defenders then crashing the ball high and thrillingly between keeper Lewis Everitt and the near post. That would probably have been about the time I was waiting for the lights to change on the A10.
St Panteleimon play at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium in Enfield, well out of the expected catchment area for CCL North, probably because they were originally listed as playing at North Greenford United. The ground is the HQ for Isthmian Premier side Enfield Town. The pitch is not the best, the wind was unpredictable and the home side tightened up against a Sarnies side missing defensive lynchpin Reece Yorke and recent midfield acquisition Prince Mbengui through injury. The second half did not have a lot going for it until twenty of its minutes had passed, when Everitt pulled off a decent save from Matthew. Saints ended the match one light after Hernany Marques, booked earlier for a foul on Trevan Robinson, went in late on Costa and was sent off. Egham had the vast majority of possession, without much penetration, the best late chance coming from subs Luke Maguire and Ezekiel Williams, the former being denied from close range off the latter’s cross.
This was Egham’s third double on the spin, their fifth in total. Jordan Berry’s men have lost only five league games thus far (including two against Hanworth Villa, but they are not alone there), and two of those reverses came early in the season at Spelthorne Sports and Burnham, who, in that order, visit Runnymede Stadium on the next two Saturdays.
EGHAM TOWN: Michael Edegbe, Ashley Harrack, Ryan Phillips, Jordan Goode-Keeley, Samad Kazi, Haluna Masembe, Trevan Robinson, Adam Humphries (Captain), Brendan Matthew, Brandon Trujillo, Sandro Costa. Substitutes: Luke Brophy, Jon-Jo Bates, Ezekiel Williams (Trujillo, 78), Dan Brown, Luke Maguire (Robinson, 88).

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