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from Dajaku found the onrunning Stewart and under pressure from defenders he slotted it past Peacock-Farrell in goal. Wednesday appealed for offside but he’d timed his run well and the goal stood. Wednesday soon won the first corner but it was headed over for a goal-kick. We’d got our mojo working by the quarter-hour mark and were putting together a few tasty attacks but five minutes later one of our players put a clearance from the touchline into our box and I thought we were going to concede but the ref blew for offside. Neil was yellow-carded for a full-blooded tackle but he received a consolatory chant in his honour. It was turning into a full- blooded encounter as I’d expected. We won our first corner after a Stewart run but couldn’t make it count.
The Owls brought on Brennan for the injured Dunkley after nearly half an hour. Shortly afterwards Gooch allowed Wednesday to press down our left and this resulted in Hoff having to take the sting out of their first real shot. In the thirty-sixth minute Stewart got his second and again it was down to great build-up work by Pritchard who put a low pass on a plate for him to beat the goalie once more. We almost had a third just after that but it bobbled over for a corner. When that corner came across, though, we did have our third as Doyle powered a header into the net with maybe a little bounce off a defender en route. My mate Arth had predicted a 4-1 win when we were in Fitzie’s and he was looking good for it. We had Wednesday on the ropes as half-time approached and Peacock-Farrell had to punch clear as another corner steamed in. I welcomed the announcement of four
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