Chesterfield Napits League Division 1
Hepthorne Lane F.C....1 AFC Whitecotes.....4
Match Key Moments.
1st - 15th Min Cagey start by BOTH teams AFC kicking uphill whilst defending well on a pitch that was like climbing a mountainside and looked well in need of cutting.
15th Min Hepthorne Lane carve out the first REAL chance of the game, firing across goal but going safe.
16th Min As the game begins to hot up a little a ball through to Mitchell beat defenders and a mistake by the last defender wins a corner for the visitors.
18th Min A rasping long range effort from the hosts flies over Wells's goal.
25th Min Superb link up play between Mitchell, Widerman and Mason sees the latter fire inches over as AFC threaten.
28th Min Hepthorne Lane go close a cross bobbles along the 6 yard box but no-one is there to finish the chance.
29th Min Hepthorne Lane again go close, but the striker is wastefull and fires over.
32nd Min GOAL !! AFC snatch the lead after Harcourt is hauled down right on the edge of the 18 yard box. MITCHELL steps up to fire the ball away from the keeper and into the bottom corner, leaving the keeper to complain (in vain) that his view was being impeded.
33th Min Hepthorne Lane go close within seconds a free kick is whipped in but the chance is hooked over with the striker well placed.
35th Min Hepthorne Lane are pushing for a leveller as AFC struggle to string passes together. A run and shot sails over Wells's bar.
40th Min Mitchell latches onto a pass before picking out Harcourt, but his snap shot crashes of the post.
42nd Min Hepthorne Lane again go close, a throw in is headed inches over.
43rd Min Wells pulls off a fine save as a scuffed shot almost catches the stopper out.
44th Min GOAL !! Hepthorne Lanes patience is finally rewarded from the corner kick, the ball is smuggled home at the back post with AFC's defence powerless to clear.
HALF TIME Hepthorne Lane......1 AFC Whitecotes.....1 ( no changes at half time ).
45th - 50th Minute AFC start the half brightly now kicking down the slope. Spencer is really getting a strangle hold of the midfield and putting moves together.
53rd Min GOAL !! A ball into the box sees Hepthorne Lane unable to clear thier lines and the ball eventually drops to MITCHELL some 12 yards from goal and he sublimly bends the ball beyond the keepers dive.
58th Min Mitchell races clear of the hosts defence and fires a stinging shot into the keepers chest as he races from his goal.
60th Min DOUBLE SUBSTITUTION Paul Walton and Callam Lytham come on to replaces Harcourt and Lee Wright who have both made a sound contribution in the game.
62nd Min MOTM Spencer slides Mitchell through but he puts his effort wide as he searches for yet another Hat-Trick.
63rd Min First Yellow Card of the game sees a Hepthorne Lane player booked for unsporting behaviour.
66th Min Just like buses the first yellow card soon brings another, this time AFC's Lee Walton finds himself in the book for a late challenge out on the wing, The Hepthorne Lane player also sees Yellow for his reaction to the foul.
67th Min GOAL !! Hat-Trick time for MITCHELL YOU CANT keep him down for long as the striker scores his BEST goal of the day. Lytham wins the ball back before picking his co-striker out with a pass and he grabs his 139th Goal for the club lobbing the keeper from distance before wheeling away in celebration.
69th Min Hepthorne Lane go close as a snap shot crashes back off the bar, and Wells makes a stunning save from the rebound.
75th Min Danny Brown is very unlucky to see his headed goal chalked off as a linesmans flag adjudges him OFFSIDE.
79th Min GOAL !! Paul Walton collects the ball a pick out LYTHAM with a raking ball forward and the striker dives full length to head home.
83rd Min Hepthorne Lane bag the final Yellow Of the Match as a substitute needlessly fouls through frustration.
FINAL SCORE Hepthorne Lane F.C.....1 AFC Whitecotes.....4 A brilliant result from AFC on a terrible pitch. Other results see them climb to 2nd Place in the Division, the HIGHEST POINT the team have EVER reached.
