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Match Report - Prescot Cables 0-1 Hyde United
Lee Fisher30 Oct - 16:19
Courtesy of Jon Rawnsley
A powerful header from Hyde’s big number nine, Nyal Bell, midway through the first half and with the visitors first real chance of the game, ultimately proved to be the difference between the two sides, leaving them nestled side by side in mid-table at the end of a wet Tuesday night under the Hope Street lights.
Cables had opened the game on the front foot and dominated for most of the period before the only goal arrived. Ben Elliott and Tony Donaldson both saw chances go narrowly over Mersin’s bar in the first ten minutes, before Mersin was called into action to save in a scramble which saw a Donaldson follow-up blocked on the line.
The next real action led to the goal, as Hyde’s second corner in quick succession was curled in accurately from the left, and Bell rose with little obstruction to head firmly into Calvin Hare’s net, leaving the Cables keeper with no chance. Hare would go onto perform well when called into action in the second period, but he had little else of note to do in the remainder of the first half, as the game settled into a level contest with few real openings.
With the rain getting heavier as the second half started, it was Cables once again exerting themselves, and in the first fifteen minutes Jack Goodwin had three openings, all from distance, but unable to find the target. An Elliott header from another Cables corner also failed to trouble Mersin, who was ably protected by a well-organised back line.
The next chance that feel Hyde’s way could have seen them take a two-goal lead, as Bell fed a smart pass into the path of the on-rushing Scanlon, who saw his first time drive well-saved by a plunging Hare in the Cables goal. From their next attack, Hyde forced another Hare save as a low cross to the near post was parried out for a corner. And moments later it was Hare again keeping the hosts in the game, after Redshaw set up Scanlon for a one on one run at goal only to be denied.
A flurry of substitutions from both sides as the game entered its final quarter coincided with the game going off the boil, as the visitors began to manage both the clock and the match towards a conclusion, much to the frustration of the Cables bench and support.
As the game entered the last ten minutes, Hare kept his team in the context once again, saving from a dangerous cross come shot from full back Thompson. The final two changes did fall to the home side, but two headed chances were not enough to find their way past Mersin and a resolute Hyde defence before time eventually ran out.
Cables had opened the game on the front foot and dominated for most of the period before the only goal arrived. Ben Elliott and Tony Donaldson both saw chances go narrowly over Mersin’s bar in the first ten minutes, before Mersin was called into action to save in a scramble which saw a Donaldson follow-up blocked on the line.
The next real action led to the goal, as Hyde’s second corner in quick succession was curled in accurately from the left, and Bell rose with little obstruction to head firmly into Calvin Hare’s net, leaving the Cables keeper with no chance. Hare would go onto perform well when called into action in the second period, but he had little else of note to do in the remainder of the first half, as the game settled into a level contest with few real openings.
With the rain getting heavier as the second half started, it was Cables once again exerting themselves, and in the first fifteen minutes Jack Goodwin had three openings, all from distance, but unable to find the target. An Elliott header from another Cables corner also failed to trouble Mersin, who was ably protected by a well-organised back line.
The next chance that feel Hyde’s way could have seen them take a two-goal lead, as Bell fed a smart pass into the path of the on-rushing Scanlon, who saw his first time drive well-saved by a plunging Hare in the Cables goal. From their next attack, Hyde forced another Hare save as a low cross to the near post was parried out for a corner. And moments later it was Hare again keeping the hosts in the game, after Redshaw set up Scanlon for a one on one run at goal only to be denied.
A flurry of substitutions from both sides as the game entered its final quarter coincided with the game going off the boil, as the visitors began to manage both the clock and the match towards a conclusion, much to the frustration of the Cables bench and support.
As the game entered the last ten minutes, Hare kept his team in the context once again, saving from a dangerous cross come shot from full back Thompson. The final two changes did fall to the home side, but two headed chances were not enough to find their way past Mersin and a resolute Hyde defence before time eventually ran out.
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