Maidenhead United v Kidlington

The Youth team marched on in the FA cup in front of a big crowd tonight.
Playing against Allied Premiership opposition Maidenhead inflicted their biggest defeat of the season.
Although the scoreline suggests a rout that was far from the case. For the neutral watching the Youth level for the first time you would have found it hard not to be impressed. Some good quality football was played by both teams in a very fair manner.
Starting once again with our 3 4 3 formation we aimed to take the game to Kidlington who had beat Premiership leaders, Bisley Sports 4-1 the previous week. Having done a bit of homework we learnt they like to, score from crosses and playing wide, something we tried not to let them do.
Kidlington came closest to scoring in the 15th minute when a freekick hit the post and luckily for keeper O'Brien rebounded the right way to safety.
We had three clear cut chances in the first half with James Gisborne and Nathan Lishman wasting the first two. The third was a well worked free kick that was nodded on by Sam Lock producing a great flying catch from the keeper.
The back three of 16yr old Deverall, Stevenson and 15 yr old Jake Chance held firm and resistant.
At the other end the front three of Barney, Hazell and Gisborne was not working so well with Barney and Gisborne playing too wide too allow Hazell to be productive.
At half time we felt we had the beating of our visitors who were a lot older and we doubted they had our fitness levels. We started the half at a good tempo with the idea to wear them down as they defended resolutely.
On the hour we were forced to make a change bringing on forward George Lock for James Gisborne who missed most of pre-season and isn't quite up to our required fitness level yet as he went down with cramp.
Although we were playing well our chances were mainly some cracking 30 yarders which were skimming the goal.
With 10 minutes remaining I decided to change the formation and go 3 5 2. We brought on Raj Gill on the left, Swapped Josh Waldron over to the right and sent Nathan Lishman to head up the midfield with Ryan Hazell moving to the forward most position.
This settled us a little as we took control of midfield with Lewis Gratton playing superbly alongside Sam Lock.
Patience played off when a great ball from Lishman found Hazell free of his marker who slotted nicely past the advancing keeper in the 87nd minute.
Any last resolve seemed to fade as another great ball, this time from Gill, set Hazell free who beat the last defender before unselfishly pulling the ball back to beat the keeper passed to Nathan Lishman who passed the ball into an empty net on 92 mins.
Substitute George Lock made it 3 from 4 sub appearances to wrap up the game in the 96th minute with a well taken low driven goal.
We now face the winners of Bracknell Town & Aylesbury United to progress through to the big boys of Div 1 & 2 and the first round proper.
Championship sides and Premiership sides join in the 3rd round proper.
Overall a very pleasing performance after last week's dip.