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Throwback Thursday: Semi-Final Thriller

Throwback Thursday: Semi-Final Thriller

KPR Media14 Jan 2021 - 11:10
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With football suspended for the foreseeable future, our media team will be bringing you a number of engaging features.

Today, it's throwback Thursday and this week, we are throwing it back to Wednesday 26 April 2017 - the Isthmian Division One North Play-Off Semi-Final against Haringey Borough.

After finishing the season in 2nd place with ninety one points, the Jammers welcome 5th placed Haringey Borough to Park Drive in a play-off semi-final. Manager at the time, Kevin Horlock named a familiar starting XI that had impressed all season.

Jammers Line-Up
Daniel Wilks, Kyle Hammond, Joe Claridge, Matt Lock, Billy Roast, Curtis Haynes-Brown, Rhys Henry, Mantel Agyemang, Sam Newson, Liam Nash (pictured) & Adam Mills.

On the bench for the Jammers was Tarryn Allarakhia, Tyler Brampton, Gavin Greenfield, Jeremiah Kamanzi & James Behan.

Twenty minutes in and two sides renowned throughout the season for their goalscoring abilities had lived up to the hype. The Jammers led by three goals to one and most impressively, the Division's leading goalscorer, Liam Nash had recorded a twenty minute hat-trick - the fastest hat-trick ever scored by a Maldon & Tiptree player. The Haringey goal was notched by Rakim Richards.

With the game poised at the break, both sides knew the next goal was crucial. In the 49th minute, visiting striker, Ralston Gabriel, reduced the deficit to just one, however it was short-lived as Sam Newson restored the two goal in the 51st minute. 4-2. In what was certainly a end-to-end, fast flowing game, both sides looked destined to score with every attack, however it was twenty five minutes until the scoreline reached four-three as Gabriel scored his second of the night to set up a nervy, final fifteen minutes.

However, Maldon's nerves appear to had been settled in the 83rd minute as the impressive, Adam Mills scored in the 83rd minute to all but seal the tie. However, the visitors had other ideas and treated the 412 spectators to an exciting finish, as Chris Benjamin scored in the 90th minute to pull the game back to 5-4.

Horlock's Jammers side did manage to hold on to their slender lead in the end, to book their place in the up and coming Play-Off Final.

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