Poole Town 1 Maidenhead United 0

Vanarama National League South

9 August 2016

As TK said, no-one looks at the table at this time of year. Except me. We are a very respectable 13th with 3 teams already having 0 points from 2 games. More importantly this was our first win in this league - indeed a historic moment. It came courtesy of a Richard Gillespie crisp low finish from a perfectly placed cross from Luke Roberts after 15 minutes. RG looks class at this level and hopfully is now fully ensconsed in cotton wool having been taken off after 65 minutes.

The match itself was so different to Saturday with none of the first night nerves and plenty of can do attitude from the start. A very attacking line up was positive on the ball with lots of energy from supporting players to get into positions that were dangerous and with everyone making yards with the ball. There were warning signs that Maidenhead too were classier than the teams Poole had been used to last season. MU had big dominant players and were a real threat from crosses in the first half. They held their own for a while and will be disappointed that they didn't make anything of their superiority in the air. Poole were hanging on a bit as half time approached but were anything but naive in eating up the time (Devs).

In the second half Poole achieved dominance. Maidenhead threw substitutes on, then threw players forward with little effect but did create enough dangerous moments for the spectators to realise that it was only 1 - 0 and that could change in an instant. Poole failed to put the game to bed when it was probable that they would as Maidenhead left gaps at the back. Substitutes Burbidge and Grainger both found themselves running on to balls but were unable to convert and Wort hit the post with a delicate shot past the keeper. But this was a night for total celebration as the points were won in style in front of a decent Tuesday night crowd of over 500.

Star Player: Lewis Lindsay who ran and ran chasing everything down and making some enterprising runs forward. A mention as well for Lee Wort playing mainly on the right and getting through a tremendous amount of work.