Saturday, February 04, 2006
Waltham Forest 0, Enfield T. 1
By Tony Brazier
A Rudi Hall strike on the 76th minute was enough to win this local derby and take Enfield Town to the top of the table. Town started the stronger but Forest defended well and restricted the visitors to long range shots.
Forest front man Leon McKenzie was taken to hospital after twisting his knee with only 11 minutes of the game played, this depleted their strength up front. Both sides began to give away free kicks for niggling fouls but it was Forest’s Jermain Hughes who had a good chance to put the home team in front just before the break, unhappily his shot was easily saved by Hall.
Forest started the stronger in the second half when their best chance fell to Wes Thomas but his shot lacked the power to trouble Hall. Moments later he made amends by beating the Town offside trap and sending a lovely cross over but Richard Georgiou was just unable to profit from it.
The winner followed an attack down the right, a cross by Valeria was only partially cleared by Carlos Brown and Hall struck the ball home. Appeals for handball were waved away by the man in black. The game then developed into a bad tempered affair which saw two Forest players dismissed.23:23 Posted in Match Reports | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email this
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