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Scottish Amateur Match Report
Kings Park Rangers 1 EKYM 4
Sat 8th August 2009, Stepford Road parks, Glasgow
EKYM's Scottish Amateur
team played their fourth pre season friendly away to Kings Park
Rangers. The match was eagerly anticipated as KPR are in the league
above Y.M and it was hoped this would provide a good indication of
how the team's preparations for the new season were advancing.
Straight from the off Y.M
took a stranglehold of the game winning the majority of possession
in midfield but failed to turn this into goals with efforts from
McAneny, Taylor and McCaig testing the home keeper. The spectators
had to wait until the 40th minute for the first goal after some good
work between Billy Robertson and McCaig set up Ian Taylor to slot
the ball home after his first shot hit the upright.
After half time Y.M
continued as they finished the first half but began to turn their
possession into goals. John McNamara broke from defence and played
a through ball to Taylor who beat the last defender before
slipping the ball under the keeper for his second goal. 5 minutes
after the restart one of Kings Park Rangers rare attacks earned them
an extremely dubious penalty when a shot from close range cannoned
off Stewart Brown's thigh however the referee saw a handball. The
KPR forward scored convincingly from the spot and the sense of
injustice seemed only to spur Y.M on.
McNamara again had a
bursting run out of defence and shot from 30 yards striking the bar
with a spectacular effort. Ian Butchard was on the rebound in a
flash and stroked the ball into the bottom right hand corner of the
net with a sweet left foot shot.
With 5 minutes to go Taylor
grabbed his hattrick with a 20 yards effort which curled into the
net giving the keeper no chance.