Bacup Borough won the possession stakes but failed to find the cutting edge against a resilient Colne to suffer another disappointing defeat.

Whilst over the ninety minutes what very few chances were created from either side it was Bacup the most dominant team with the Bacup keeper Jon Paul Lewis constantly out of the action but on twenty nine minutes he found himself picking the ball out of his net, this following a Matthew Tindall strike.

Bacup had mounted one of their several attacks but cheaply did give the ball away high up the pitch, Colne collected the loose ball before knocking long, Tindall collected before coming inside before unleashing a well struck shot that sailed into the net.

This was Colne’s first effort compared to Bacup having had four decent efforts to have taken the lead themselves.

With Colne taking this slender lead in at the half time break, with the amount of possession the home side did have, should the second half carry on the same with Bacup dominating possession which it did, then it seemed only a matter of time before a breakthrough would come but credit to Colne who did work hard in protecting their slender lead resulting in a frustrated Bacup team that did not deserve to come off this pitch with no points for their efforts, certainly Colne whilst deserving a share of the points did what Bacup could not do. That was find the net.

The Bacup Manager Brent Peters spoke after the game with these comments

“Has a team we may have had lots of possession but then it is how good you are in possession to keep the ball and to then make the right decision in producing the right pass to then find the cutting edge to provide a goal, sadly collectively we failed to do this, the goal we lost, the ball was given away too cheaply high up the pitch but from this I must question the set up of my defenders for the situation they found themselves in and allowing the Colne scorer to come inside before striking the goal.

In fact I have to question my defenders on their lack of organisation and talking to each other as a unit through out the game, even when the ball was up at the opposite end of the pitch we were indiscipline at the back by the way our set up was all over the place, this is basics and basics they got wrong

Peters continued “in possession too many times we were going long and forcing play rather than being more relaxed on the ball in order to be patient in our build up play, had we have played with minimum touches, kept the ball moving, not forcing play by going long, I am sure with the quality we have in the side we would then have created more and better opportunities would have been created, by going long we made life easy for colne to defend the situation,

Peters finished by saying “ the simple fact was we had over the ninety minutes five or six good opportunities to have done better in front of goal, whilst Colne having one chance and did take it, although they very nearly had two, this following a corner at the start of the second half, again bad defending by us, no disrespect to Colne but a better team would have finished us off there and then “

Team: Jon Paul Lewis, Adrian Bellamy, Gareth Wager, John Luker, Robert Fox, Chris Ogunyode, Davey Luker, Josh Lynch, Daniel Cocks, Lee Oldham (Lance Ogunyode), Falco Lourenco (Martin Cosgrave)

Subs Not Used: Arran Spencer, James Greenhalgh, Tommy Allen

Goals: -

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