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minutes. Martin Smith won his aerial battle to flick onto the energetic Jordan
Molyneux who danced round the oncoming defender to slide in Kyle Gibbs who
rounded Will Ferguson and tapped in. Gala continued to press with Connor Walters
working tirelessly and the Bromley defenders restricting the hosts to strike long.
Reaction came from Bromley in the second half who worked well in phases but
rarely threatened Gala’s Holder. Sam Edwards held the ball up well for Bromley but
had little support to play off. Ferguson made two outstanding saves firstly a fierce
drive from Smith and a curled effort from Walters to keep the visitors in it. Gala’s
defence held strong cancelling out any threat from Bromley and protecting Holder
well and keeping their title challenge up well.
At the Bell Field Frampton United held up any title ambitions that Stoke Gifford
United may have had with a 3-2 win. First effort on goal came from the hosts
when Manolo Espada’s cross found Jonno Willets whose overhead kick from the
edge of the box was just over. Gifford’s Rudy Hill beat a couple of defenders but
shot way off. Frampton opened the scoring on 35 when Harvey Cowley played a
good through ball and Tom Mangan beat the keeper to the ball and shot in off the
post. The hosts second came from an Espada free kick from 35 yards which the
keeper failed to stop. Two minutes into the second period it was 3-0 from a Mangan
cross tapped in by Espada. Gifford replied when Brad Probert’s shot was well-struck
and Tom Kaye could only parry into the goal. On the hour Rudy Hill pulled another
back and the last 30 had both teams on the attack but the score remained 3-2 in
Frampton’s favour.
After the disappointment of losing a nine-match unbeaten run last week Little
Stoke got back on track with a narrow win over Ruardean Hill Rangers. Little
Stoke dominated early possession without creating much but that changed on 22
minutes when a long diagonal ball from Alex Hill found Ethan Moore galloping down
the left who found John Pugsley on the edge who twisting and turning found
Harvey Sealey who drove low and hard into the bottom corner. Little Stoke started
to turn their dominance into good chances with Jack Burgess heading over Hill’s
cross on 35. Further chances followed at the end of the first and start of the second
the most notable from Sealey just over from Aaron West’s pass. Ruardean rallied
on the hour and had a good 10-minute spell but failed to make any impression.
Twenty minutes from time Little Stoke broke on the counter with West again
feeding Sealey, but Aaron Underwood saved the one on one with his legs. Two
minutes later Little Stoke weren’t to be denied when West dribbled down the right,
back heeled to Pugsley whose superb right footer found the top corner from 15
yards for 2-0. The hosts were in the ascendancy and on 82 Mike Hardiman thought
he had a penalty, but the Referee thought otherwise. Hardiman was inches wide 5
minutes later when his curling left footer from 15 yards was narrowly wide.
Ruardean again rallied for the final two minutes and found the net when a whipped
in corner was headed back across goal for Connor Dallimore to head into the top
corner. Hill applied more pressure, but Little Stoke held on for 2-1.