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keeper before unselfishly passing to who made his debut for the club,
Calum Davies who slotted his second having recently arrived from Dork-
of the day. The next goal was Josh ing Wanderers U18s. The final cherry
Ano’s time to shine, who was played was put on top of the pudding as Jor-
in by Archie Harland-Goddard who dan Gallagher marauded down the
magically brought down a cross-field left only to be brought down inside
pass, beat his man, passed to Ano the box. Jordan then got the opportu-
who smashed the ball into the bot- nity to complete his hat-trick which
tom left corner. The final effort of the he did without hesitation. Raynes
half was from Marcus Dowdeswell Park Vale 7 Camberley Town 0.
who found himself at the back post Speaking to the gaffer following the
nodding the ball home following a match, he had the following to say re-
phenomenal front post flick-on from garding the sparkling performance:
Calum Davies. Half time the hosts “I thought the game went well thank
lead 4-0. you. Lots of positives, 7 goals and
Toe-poke the ball a clean sheet are the obvious ones.
One would usually think that having There were some good individual
such a lead going into the second half performances as well”.
the game plan would change, opting
for a more defensive approach to pro- Certainly a very positive start to the
tect the lead. Gallagher & Panayi were 2021/22 season as well as to the first
having none of it. More opportunities team management’s RPV career.
were soon created with Calum Davies
setting up Jordan Gallagher for the
fifth goal of the game. Jordan Gal-
lagher then went on a run of his own
down the byline and into the box,
beating Camberley’s left back only to
toe-poke the ball past the keeper and
into the net. It was at this point that
Camberley created their first reason-
able chance of the game, but they
were no match for Billy Bishop as he
saved their one-on-one chance bril-
liantly. A number of substitutes had
been made throughout the half, in-
cluding RPV’s player-manager bring-
ing himself on, but specific mention
should be made of Ethan Lampard