U10s - KYPC  Panthers 2 Cullercoats 2

30/03/10 14:52 Filed in: Match Reports

Two equally matched sides fought out an entertaining draw at the Amberley Playing fields.   A tense opening exchange with tackles flying in resulted in an early Injury to Skipper Oliver young who was forced off the field and replaced by David Shipley.   The Panthers duly took advantage of the reshuffle in the Cullercoats defence and scored a sloppy opener when their centre forward was allowed to get in behind and slotted in past Tony Blacklock.  
 
Shipley (AKA T Rex) scored the goal of the season so far for Cullercoats when he picked the ball up from the centre of defence and ignoring his defensive duties for a while he danced past the entire panthers team and toe poked a left footed equaliser.   Cullercoats dominated the rest of the first half and could have taken a lead into the break when an excellent piece of football from Aaron Dixon released Charlie Barbrook down the right and his cross was met by Lewis Williamson whose volley was well blocked by a panthers defender.  Steven Taylor was unleashing some menacing dead balls for Cullercoats that on another day would have found the net.
 
Cullercoats started the second half with two strikers but fell behind when they failed to deal with a panthers corner which was scrambled home.  However the two striker formation paid off when Luke Monaghan found fellow hitman Charlie James who kept his head and slotted in an equaliser with minutes to spare.