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LANcING 3
Finney (3’ 87’), louis (23’)
cHeSSINGToN & HooK UNITeD 2

lentell (43’), Esteller (90’+2)

FA Vase 1st Qualifying Round 31st of August 2019 Culver Rd

n what turned out to be a fairly windy
Oday, Lancing didn’t quite breeze through
to the next round of the FA Vase, as they might
have expected to.
Undefeated after five games and top of their
division, Lancing went ahead after three
minutes, a loose ball, from what looked like
a foul on United’s Bas Morally, was fired into
the net by Lancing’s Captain Lewis Finney.
Lancing continued to pile on the pressure and
were rewarded with a goal after 23minutes, a
free-kick, just outside the box, saved by goal-
keeper Joshua Woodcock, from the resulting
goalmouth scramble the ball hit the Lancing
forward Kane Louis and found its way into ming the bar. Despite the pressure, United
the bottom corner of the United net. failed to score, and in the 87th minute Lanc-
A save by Woodcock kept United in the game ing scored their third and Finney’s second, a
and Finney should have scored for Lanc- free-kick floated in from the left was head-
ing but the shot brushed just past the post. ed into the net by the Captain. Although the
It wasn’t all one way, and the Chessington game seemed beyond their reach, United still
& Hook players created some good moves refused to admit defeat, and the determina-
down the flanks but without really threaten- tion paid off when an Ellis Lentell shot was
ing the Lancing goal, the perseverance even- blocked and Gonzalo Esteller blasted home
tually paid off when Ellis Lentell finished well his first goal for the club four minutes into
from an Elliot Baptiste pass just before half- added time, leaving Lancing’s nerves jangling
time. for the remaining two minutes.
Chessington & Hook United were side trans- A fantastic second-half performance demon-
formed in the second half, battling for every strated just what United are capable of, and if
ball and creating the lion’s share of the chanc- they can retain that fighting spirit through-
es and looked likely to equalise, but Lancing out the rest of the season, they’ll finish high
still threatened with Mo Juwara’s shot skim- up the table.