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Match Report in blue and the huge crowd of Vale sup- feld's defensive play, Vale started to find

porters felt something that they weren't and press the visitor's weak-spots. These
RAYNES PARK VALE 1 familiar with in this Vase campaign. This were the obvious lack of a full-time keep-
er (although Carthy did as well as any
wasn't going to be their day.
STANSFELD 2 And so it proved to be. Stansfeld were striker suddenly finding himself glued to
determined and resolute as they soaked the other, foreign end of the pitch, could
up the pressure and made rare and fruit- be expected to do) and Stansfeld's right
FA Vase • Saturday 15th January 2022 • Grand Drive, Raynes Park less forays into the opposition half. back. Suddenly Vale looked like they had
Didn’t test the substitute keeper
found the lock that they needed to pick
Stansfeld Are In The Last Sixteen Raynes Park then dominated for the rest and only a handy hairpin would be re-
This was the match that everyone around of the half but their corners and free quired before the loot was theirs. But it
Raynes Park had been talking about. kicks came to nothing with Stansfeld was not to be. Despite Archie Harland-
RPV's route to the game had included centreback Killilea winning the aerial Goddard continually controlling the
no less than nineteen goals to three con- battles. On 37 minutes Stansfeld ‘keeper right midfield and slotting Nes Bellikli's
ceded over five wins. With a rain-sodden Charlie Cottrel, sustained an injury in a distribution perfectly beyond a Stansfeld
pitch leading to a postponed home fix- 50/50 with Vale striker Cal Davies. The right-back who looked to be creaking

ture against Horley Town and the exten- visiting keeper battled on to the whistle under the pressure RPV couldn't find
sive Xmas break Josh Gallagher's boys but came off from a good half forced to the back of the Stansfeld net and with a
were short of competitive game time. hand the gloves and the green jersey to Raynes Park goal looking increasingly
Added to this was the awareness and Stansfeld substitute striker Jack Carthy. likely Stansfeld broke away on a rare sec-
nous that a Stansfeld side, playing, may- Carthy came on for 2nd half and faced ond-half attack.
be, not the prettiest football brought to 45 minutes between the sticks and was Refused to give up
the fixture. quickly found wanting on 49 minutes A 74th minute cross from the right met
Vale looked their usual threat to seeing, Vale looked their usual threat. when Raynes Park’s Brad Sweeney scored the unmarked Stansfeld No. 9 Macey
The visitors had done their homework But, like the prize fighter up against the with a hard and high shot from the right. Malyon who duly got his head to the
and watched Vale play at the re-arranged slugger, all the fancy footwork couldn't Fortunately for Stansfeld and frustrat- ball and, from three yards out, Stansfeld
Horley away fixture that the Surrey side break down a Stansfeld team who knew ingly for the local fans, RPV didn’t test were into the last sixteen. The remain-
kindly brought forward to give Vale a what they had come to do and how they the substitute ‘keeper any more. der of the game saw the usual delaying
chance to stretch their legs and burn off a were going to do it and they stuck, dog- Special mention, here, needs to go to tactics, frustration and desperate chanc-
mince pie or two. And it showed. Stans- gedly, to that game plan. Stansfeld midfielder Greg Summersby. es that these occasions usually generate
feld played tight, compact, effective foot- The opening goal on the playable but far Match photographers would have been but, in the end, Kentish determination
ball focusing on stopping the threat they from easy Grand Drive surface perhaps forgiven that Summersby was from a won over a South London side who had
had clearly identified from Vale's mid- summed up the day. A scrappy first half family of quadruplets so often did he brushed away similarly placed sides in
field and preventing Nes Bellikli from came alive only on 29 minutes when a appear at the heart of the action and, this campaign but who, in this encoun-
playing his usually flawless distributing pinball goal-mouth scramble that all but more than a few times, was the visitors ter, found themselves out-defended by a
game. Nullified by Stansfeld's suffocat- lit up a neon 'Tilt' sign on Billy Bishop's saviour! team who, quite simply, refused to give
ing midfield Raynes Park looked nervy. crossbar, ended with a close-range tap-in Midway through the second half and up.
Match report: E.I. Addio
When allowed to play the kind of foot- from Stansfeld's No. 11, Ollie Milton. As buoyed by the realisation that there WAS
ball that visitors to Grand Drive are used the visiting fans roared the eleven men a route through the wall of the Stans-