We are top of the league, we are top of the league!!!

Marlborough B beat Chippenham D to go top of the league.

It was a wet and windy afternoon and for a third time in a row Marlborough B we’re away from home.
I forgot to mention we played this game under flood lights as the push back was 16:30pm.

All that aside Marlborough B we’re ready to go, the game started at a good pace, end to end in fact but after the first 10 minutes we started to control the game with great work from our midfield supporting defence and attack from our on the pitch captain Phil gill, Mark Banham, Tom Devenish and Dave Patterson holding the midfield battle and supplying our forwards with plenty of balls into the oppositions D,

After a lot of attacking pressure from Marlborough we earned our first (and last) short corner,
It was a slick injection by Wayne Cranstone to the top of the D stopped dead by Phil Gill that gave Chris Newton the time to flick it pass the Chippenham defensive and keeper. 1-0 to Marlborough.

This meant Chippenham pushed back hard to try and find a equaliser before half time but thanks to
Some great keeping from Tom Collins and some fantastic defending from James Lane, Angus Harley, Hugo Wright and Daniel Dix, Marlborough took the 1-0 lead to half time.

Second half began well Marlborough finding their rhythm early into the half with great runs and skills from Wayne Cranstone, Harry Strover, Gabriel Dellar and Alfie Marley causing the Chippenham defenders a lot of problems.

With the great amount pressure Marlborough put on Chippenham, Marlborough found themselves 2-0 up, Chris Newton received the ball wide down the right hand flank, running into the D drawing the keeper and remaining defenders onto him mean while Harry Strover makes a great run to the penalty spot where Chris passes to him to put the ball away into an empty net.

It was tough work for Marlborough after that goal a lot of defending as Chippenham fought back forcing more saves from tom and his brick wall defence.

The last 10 minutes seemed more like short corner practice for Chippenham racking up at least 10 short corners in favour of Chippenham, but nothing was passing tom and co today.

The game ended 2-0 and Marlborough B extend their unbeaten run to 6 games.

Today’s man of the match: Tom Collins for the many saves though out the game and keeping a solid clean sheet.