Stunning is one of many words to describe this stubborn
Fernieside team today.
Edinburgh City we know are a better team, on paper they have
better players. But today, Fernieside proved what hard work and
working and sticking to a game plan can achieve.
The Fernieside boys worked very hard all week in training on the
plan, and the club are all delighted the plan worked.
From the start of this match, Fernieside knew City would bring
the game to us, but the team from the south of Edinburgh never
once panicked. Throughout the game City were kept to long range
shots with the home side closing down quickly and trying to stop
their better players from seeing too much of the ball. An ugly
win, but good sides can do that, and today Fernieside took a
step nearer becoming a really handy side.
Fernie took the lead on 11 minutes. a corner on the right from
Niki Robertson, and it flew right in at the back post. Soon
after, Fernie could have and should have added to the 1-0 lead.
They had 2 or 3 great chances to tie the game up in the 1st
half. It's fair to say that from here on in it was City who ran
the game. Attack after attack, but Ryan Murray and Jamie Kelly
were both outstanding sitting in the middle of the park for the
home side. They got in the way of everything, battled hard and
controlled the flow of the game by stopping City from playing
any decent football.
A
huge shout must go out to Liam Taylor in goal and his defence of
Grant, Tweedy, Flett and Daykin, Outstanding the lot of them.
Up front Gibson worked hard against 3 defenders and Keith
Shields and Wayne Johnson chased everything all afternoon.
Ingles, McKenna and Bain came on and all 100% helped to achieve
the end result.
A magnificent team effort to help
Fernie progress into the next round.
