The Terrors

4 - 2

GOALS

McCallum 87,90+ 

Following the trauma of last Saturday, Sutton must have been licking their lips at the prospect of lining up against a pointless Terrors side. This feeling would have grown when Jamie Byatt had to make a goal line clearance in the 8th minute.  However, the visitors had not counted on the an invigorated Alan Mcleod, playing some of his best football for the Terrors.  Sutton keeper Nichols dithered with the ball in his own area, "I'll have that"  though Mcleod, and he did!  

The returning confidence almost visibly surged through the team. Ben Abbey came close to  making it two when he took control of a long pass, turned, but hooked his shot just wide.  Laurie Walker could have been forgiven for not wanting to get involved after Ashford, but he too was there to be counted, saving smartly at the feet of Hann.  Paul Vines Aaron Goode and Jason Pinnock all had chances, but there was to be no further breakthrough before the interval.

Half Time  1  - 0

Tooting started the second period brightly with a Byatt chance flying over the bar and it was not long before Ben Abbey caught out the Sutton defence and the hapless Nichols to make it two.  McLeod nearly added his second seven minutes later, narrowly failing to find the target with his head from a pinpoint Pinnock byline cross.

Further confusion in the Sutton defence found two Terrors unmarked at the corner of the six yard box. Fortunately they did not get in each others way as Ben Abbey, having already scored one, politely stepped aside for Jamie Byatt to thunder home a piledriver.

Time for a couple of changes with McLeod making way for Pitterson and Paul Vines limping off to make way for Dave Stevens.  Sutton briefly rallied, with Walker again forced to save smartly using his feet. But it was only a blip, as both subs quickly got into the game. Pitterson tamely directed a header at the keeper, then Dave Stevens opened his goalscoring account with an emphatic deposit after Hartburn broke forward and provided him with a killer pass.

Martin Dynan from the reserves replaced Aaron Goode for the last ten minutes.

Two very late consolations for the visitors may have knocked a little of the gloss off, but overall the Terrors can be highly delighted with the first derby game against Sutton since March 1986.

Andy the photographer has taken rather a lot of pictures of the match.  You can view these at:  http://andy578.fotopic.net/c1569203_1.html

TEAMS

View from the other end