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VALUABLE AWAY WIN FOR BANGOR
The sixths travelled to Upper Malone on
Friday night for a tough game with Instonians and Bangor managed to come
out on top of an eight goal thriller.
Bangor seemed up for the game from the start and took the match to
Instonians. This paid off when Simon Harper received the ball on the
by-line and cheekily flicked it past the Instonians goalkeeper who looked
shocked that it went in.
Bangor didn't stop there and their sustained pressure led to Simon Harper
scoring his second goal of the night and his 50th for the club. Then
Bangor sat back and let the home side attacked, and if not for some good
defending by Phil Campbell, Ryan Agnew and Duncan Morris, the visitors
would have conceded just after going two in front.
Instonians didn't stop there, and their relentless pressure nearly paid
off when their forward lost his man, and smashed a shot towards the Bangor
goal, only for goalkeeper Mark Russell to turn it away at the last second.
Bangor went in at half-time leading 2-0.
After a stern team-talk Bangor went out in the second half to add to their
tally and not sit back and defend. Although the midfield of Simon Murray,
Bob Espie and Craig McDowell were supplying the forwards with some great
passes, the front men couldn't capitalise.
Then the home side did what they threatened to do for most of the game,
drag themselves back into the match. After their forward miss-hit his shot
twice he didn't miss the third time and it was 2-1 to Instonians. Game on.
This seemed to waken Bangor up, and when they won a short corner, Duncan
Morris headed up the pitch to take it. This clearly rattled the Instonians
players, and when Duncan received the ball he powered it into the goal to
make it 3-1.
Then Michael J. Ferguson made it 4-1 after some neat passing between
himself and Callum Togneri, opened up tonnes of space that allowed Michael
time to beat the goalkeeper with aplomb. Then he made it 5-1 soon after
and Bangor were cruising.
Instonians didn't give up and soon made it 5-2, and then made it 5-3 with
what turned out to be the last touch of the game. Bangor secured another
win that sees them claw their way up the table and hot on the heals of the
top five. Thanks to John Mitchell for umpiring. Man of the Match was
midfield maestro Simon Murray |