Dinging Donger

Sheffield United U18 5 v Burnley U18 2

U18 Professional Development League, North

Saturday 24 February 2018

SUFC 2017/18 Game 68

(The Old Workshop, Hicks Street)
Odyssey, Technical Warfare IPA (Mosaic, Simcoe, Ekuanot) on keg at 7%.
Opaque, golden verging on tan in the glass. Lots of swirling bitter orange. The bitterness grows quite rich & intense. Lots of boiled sweet & barley sugars in the smell. A nice tang to the bitterness which sits nicely rather than dominates. Great beer.

A Dinging Donger up at Shirecliffe today. Despite the FiveFor scoreline, Burnley were well in that. They scored first, had the lead up to the half hour. And, they also had an utterly dominant spell where they hit the post twice & had a good number of he can't miss clear cut chances.

Unfortunately, even that neat win, still leaves us bottom of the table. Twenty five points from 20 games. That was a nice bounce back win after a bit of a hammering at Bolton last week. Organised & composed in the main. A lot of attacking threat of our own. Rode our luck. And made it count. Simeon Oure bagged two & was very lively. For the equaliser on 34 minutes, my what do I know nouse said he'd took it too far & too wide right to squeeze it in. But, he struck it well, across the keeper & into the far corner. On 65 minutes, he made it 4-1 after he stuck it in the bottom corner after a great solo run.

Reon Potts was popping up all over the pitch. I'll admit to finding him slightly frustrating at times. He's good on the ball. Strong. And, he's got a nice bit of pace over a short distance. But, occasionally, I find myself thinking “where is he?, what's he doing there?” Reon scored his goal after 59 minutes to make it 3-1. Sam Ackroyd & (I think) Sammy Ompreon were the other scorers. Someone else at the game timed that Ompreon goal at 21 seconds after he came on as a Sub.

On a negative, I think/hope Marcus Dewhurst will be a little disappointed with Burnley's second. An indirect free kick on the edge of the box. Marcus looked to rejig his wall more or less as the guy was rolling it sideways. Marcus got a lot on the good high shot, but could only really palm it in.

Anyway. Negatives aside. A good win. On the back of a good performance. Need to build on that now.

619/1285