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Avonmouth v Cheltenham Civil Service
Both sides and the crowd of 85 were delighted the game was on despite
the recent heavy rain that made the surface slippery but playable and it was
Cheltenham who had the best of the opening 15 minutes with Declan Chick
firing over on 7 minutes after good work from Ollie Wilkes. It wasn’t until
the 19 minute that Avonmouth threatened and following a great move on
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the left wing and a deflected shot forced Cheltenham keeper Harvey Need
into a good save. And just a minute later a corner by Matty Groves found
Charlie Aldom at the back post whose header sneaked under the defender’s
legs and over the line to put Avonmouth 1 up. Just 6 minutes later Aldom
was injured and had to be substituted. In the 38 minute there was a good
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chance for Cheltenham from a corner when the ball bounced around in the
box and was cleared for a corner. With just a minute of the first half
remaining Avonmouth’s Kyle O'Donovan doubled the score with a well-
placed shot from the edge of the box.

Right at the start of the second half Cheltenham again started the best and
Brett Blake scored to reduce the arears to one. Just a minute later
Avonmouth keeper Tom Bradley was called into action to tip over Lewis
Driscoll’s shot. On the hour following a pass over the defence by
Avonmouth’s George Brown to Josh Pearce who calmly slotted home to
restore their two-goal lead. It was then Matt Groves turn to find Pearce to
fire the ball past keeper Need to increase Avonmouth’s lead to 4-1. The
home side were now in total
control with centre back Mark
Williams striding forward with
the ball and striking a fierce
shot from well outside the
box just over the bar. In an
engaging game it was then
Cheltenham’s turn to take
control calling on Bradley to
confidently pluck several
crosses from the air. Right in
the final minutes, and with
arguably the best goal of the
game was scored by
Cheltenham’s Blake who fired
an unstoppable shot into the
top left hand corner of the
Avonmouth net to make the
final score 4-2.