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Carroll hits right note

Windsor & Eton 1-0 Bromley
Tuesday 9 September 2003
Ryman League Division One South
by Stephen McCartney - www.kentishfootball.co.uk

Dave Carroll's deflected free kick after twenty five minutes turned out to be the difference between the two sides at Stag Meadow.

Bromley's Gary Drewett, making his first start of the season, fouled Craig O'Conner twenty five yards from goal and former Aldershot Town and Wycombe Wanderers star Carroll struck a free kick which took a deflection before finding its way into the right corner of the Ravens net.

Bromley's Danny Smith fired over before Kieran Adams' dipped a shot wide for the Royalists in the first five minutes of the game.

Windsor's former Bromley goalkeeper, Chuck Martini will be pleased keeping a clean sheet against his former club.  In the corresponding fixture last season, the Moroccan's heroics earned Bromley a 1-0 win thanks to Adolph Amoako's late
winner.

But it wasn't to be Bromley's night, supported vocally by their loyal band of followers.

Three minutes after the break, Amaoko's run at goal saw him blast high over Martini's crossbar.

Carroll's 52nd minute free kick was headed over by a team-mate when he was left completely unmarked in the middle of the Bromley penalty area, before Bromley's Bobby Nolan received a good cutting pass from Colin Luckett but Nolan's cross-cum-shot screamed wide of the far post.

Carroll fired a right foot shot over Danny Harwood's crossbar just before the hour mark before a clever pass from Jason McKoy, who turned his marker Adams, before floating a cross but Tony Reid headed wide.

McKoy then shot high and over for the visitors whilst under pressure but the closest Bromley came to scoring was in the 65th minute.  Luckett's pass sent Amoako surging towards goal but Martini came rushing off his line and the shot rolled narrowly wide of the foot of the left upright, hitting the side netting. Both players needed treatment after colliding with each other.

With the Bromley bench barking words of encouragement to their players, Bromley were given a lifeline in the 75th minute.

Amoako won his side a free kick in the same place as Carroll's winning strike. Facing a four man wall, positioned inside the D, Bromley's night was summed up when Luckett blasted the free kick well over the Windsor & Eton crossbar.

Two minutes later, Bromley boss Stuart McIntyre swooped, brining on Leroy Huggins and Bobby George for Drewett and Amaoko but the three man forward line, alongside Reid, couldn't break down a solid home defence.

Harwood saved from Graham Eloumani, blocking his shot, when he received a square pass from Keith Scott, in the sixth minute of stoppage time.

Bromley travel to Ashford Town's Homelands ground in the FA Cup, First Qualifying Round on Saturday, and any replay will take place at Hayes Lane on Tuesday 16 September (7.45pm).

Windsor & Eton:  Chuck Martini, Jamie Furmage (Jack Smillie 45), Ryan Parsons, Jason Cousins (Capt), Leon Townley, Spencer Walsh, Leigh Rosier (Dave Tilbury 78), Kieran Adams (Graham Eloumani 83), Craig O'Conner, Keith Scott, Dave
Carroll.  Subs: Rob Saunders, Junior Jones

Bromley: Danny Harwood, Steve Potterill, Colin Luckett, Joe Vines, Danny Smith, Dean Forbes (Capt), Gary Drewett (Bobby George 77), Jason McKoy, Tony Reid (James Goodwin 87), Adolph Amoako (Leroy Huggins 77), Bobby Nolan.  Subs: Andy Hunt, John Butler

Referee:      Mr R James
Assistants:  Mr M Williams and Mr C Wicks