Hard fought draw!

Ben Humphreys’ second half goal earned Long Melford a deserved point.

With a fresh wind at their backs and kicking towards the River End, the brave hearts of Melford produced a well deserved draw against the flourishing Great Yarmouth Town.

In the opening minutes Melford attacked with venom and sadly no success. Whilst “The Bloaters” were starting to get into the flow of things with their wide players  Jesse  Fenn and  Louie Duffield starting to impress.

On 8 minutes Yarmouth took the lead  with JESSE FENN beating two Melford defenders down the Yarmouth left  flank to fire into Melford net from the angle.

This proved to be a stimulus to the  Yarmouth play and they started to provide problems for the Melford defence. 

Over the space of the first period the Melford defence made three goal line clearances from Yarmouth efforts, hard luck for the visitors, but from a Melford perspective good defending.

On 53 minutes with Melford looking the better side, the equaliser came for Melford.

A long throw from Greg Birch (on for the injured Mahki Johnson-Reid,) caused mayhem in the Yarmouth box and eventually BEN HUMPHREYS found the Yarmouth net from close range.

This added confidence to the Melford play and for a period they took control of the game, but were unable to find the clincher.

Melford defended well in last ten minutes when Yarmouth flung players forward, with  Melford  keeper Jayden Smith making some fine saves, and Dek  Roy and Carlos Lazar very firm at the centre of the Melford  defence. A deserved point for The Villagers.

LONG MELFORD: Jayden Smith, Charlie Coy, Dek Roy, Carlos Lazar, Ben Judge, Jake Jackson, Mahki  Johnson-Reid, Jacob Brown (capt), Caden Vine,  Will Thorp, Ben Humphreys 

Subs used: Greg Birch, Nico Mwanza   not used Jordan Gibbs, Oli  Judge

Photo credit: Hannah Parnell (Parnell Photo)