Bedworth Utd 0 Poole Town 2

Southern Premier League

12 December 2015

Another very windy game with Poole playing with the benefit in the first half and working hard to be 1 up at half time. Roberts and Wort both had shots saved and Spetch took a pot shot from a long way out which sailed just over the bar. Bedworth failed to clear a corner and Brooks stabbed in a low cross to give Poole the lead at half time.

In the second half Poole rarely got out of their half because of the wind and their determination to hang on to the lead. Whilst Bedworth spent a lot of time in the Poole half and had a couple of shots, they never looked to have the bite to come back. When Poole scored the second with Wort getting his first goal for the club the game was over as a contest and nothing else really happened.

So not a thrilling game but all wins gain 3 points and this was a professional performance from Poole. On this showing you would fear that Bedworth don't have enough to  get out of the bottom four without an injection of players and a different attitude. The artificial pitch played better than Merthyr's earlier in the season and caused no real problems.

My star player today was Marvin Brooks. He got up from an early injury to get the vital first goal scoring for the second week in a row and was involved in most of Poole's attacking play.