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Gateshead 1 Ebbsfleet United 3
Date: Sunday 21st February 2010, by Heed Army
The Tynesider’s endured what was a horrendous result at home to Ebbsfleet Utd on Saturday afternoon.
Ian Bogies men started the game well, passing the ball and finding space on both wings through Peter Winn and Andy Parkinson.
Parkinson was making darting runs into the box and only finding red shirts inside the first 10 minutes, but the pressure Gateshead had came to nothing and the Ebbsfleet slowing got into the match.
Even though ebbsfleet got in to the game they had no shots on goal to mention until they scored two goals in two minutes. Ricky Shakes grabbed the opener after Paul Farman’s initial save sore the ball fall to Shakes on the edge of the box and he calmly passed the ball into the net. Magno Vieira grabbed the second goal, tapping in on the goal line after some defending that was questionable to say the least.
Peter Winn made the score line semi respectable on 41 minutes when he headed home a pinpoint cross from Craig Baxter which gave the Ebbsfleet keeper Cronin no chance of stopping.
HT 1-2
After the break more and more mistakes were being made by the Gateshead midfield, with Andy Ferrell passing the ball to Moses Ashikodi who went on to score. During that mistake the referees assistant flagged for offside, in doing so the Heed defence stopped playing giving Ashikodi an easier time on route to goal.
This season has seen a nasty habit of Heed players not playing to the whistle!
The next talking point was “Substitutions”, Brain wake was replaced by Graeme Armstrong like for like, but Winger Andy Parkinson was replaced by out of form central midfielder Alex Francis. Francis tried, but looked and was ineffective during his time on the pitch, the choice to put a central midfield player on the right wing when right winger James Sinclair was sitting on the bench left fans asking questions.
Gateshead: Farman, Baxter, Curtis, Bains, Heckingbottom, Parkinson (Francis 69), Ferrell, Turnbull, Winn, Wake (Armstrong 69), Clare.
Subs Not Used: Provett, Buchanan, Sinclair.