SCEFL Premier Division

Fisher 3 - 0 Glebe
Saturday 28 December 2024 - 15:00

Fisher 3-0 Glebe
Saturday 28 December 2024
SCEFL Premier Division

Matchball Sponsor: Millwall Community Trust

Attn: 254
Scorers: Charles Yiadom-Konadu (52 mins), Omotunmise Akanni (82 mins), Jacob Katonia (90+2 mins)

Goal Highlights: Fisher Film Crew – watch here
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Photo Credit: Dave Anderson – full album here

A scintillating second half performance saw Fisher confirm their play off credentials with three unanswered goals, seeing them to a comprehensive win over fellow play off aspirants, Glebe.
Illness forced midfielder Armani-Jordan Martin to withdraw on the morning of the game and Jack Gibbons was away on a family trip, but the strength of the Fisher squad was evident, with Charles Yiadom-Konadu and recent singing Donald Macaulay coming in the starting eleven, with youngster Daniel Irving added to the bench.
A festive crowd of 254 saw a rather subdued first half with the sides somewhat cancelling each other out and few clear cut chances. Fisher’s best chances came from work down the left with Courtney Barrington and Ed Sata combining to give the Glebe right back a tough afternoon. Flavio Jumo dragged a shot from the edge of the area wide of the post when well-placed and Barrington slipped a good ball inside for Yiadom-Konadu, but his effort flew over the bar.
Glebe’s main route to goal came from aerial balls into the box, mainly from dead ball situations but Ogunseri and his centre halves dealt well with every delivery effectively, apart from one which flew across the face of the goal. The talking point of the first half though came on thirty minutes when Ogunseri slid out to gather in front of Glebe’s Harvey Mead, with the resulting collision seeing the ball bounce out of play. A rather bemused St Pauls crowd all saw the referee point to the penalty spot, before after an extended conversation with his assistant, he changed his decision and awarded a corner. Ogunseri then saved well on his line with a good reflex block from the resulting corner.
If the first half was a cagey affair the second was a thrilling display of attacking football from the Fish. Within seven minutes of the restart they had the lead. A long clearance from Ogunseri found Charles Yiadom-Konadu, who flicked the ball on for Kesna Clarke to run onto, but with the bounce deceiving both Clarke and his marker, it was Yiadom-Konadu himself who ran onto the bouncing ball and toed it over the advancing keeper in a perfectly executed lob to see the ball drop into the empty net.
Glebe’s goal started to lead a charmed life as Jumo saw a powerful header, when arriving late onto a Lovell cross, fly just wide of the angle of bar and post and he was again denied by a fine save from Justin Lee after a fierce drive from the edge of the box when teed up by Barrington. Lee was then fortunate to receive a free kick when he rushed form his area as Clarke looked to lift the ball over him with many in the crowd feeling the contact was the other way round which would have resulted in a certain red card for the keeper.
With ten minutes remaining Fisher doubled their lead, Lee palmed away a curling effort from Barrington, but Fisher recycled the ball well and again fed Barrington on the left. He set off on a trademark mazy run turning his marker inside out and cutting in along the by line before pulling the ball back to the edge of the six yard box where substitute Omotunmise Akanni was on hand to control and apply the finishing touch.
Fisher controlled the remaining ten minutes well, stating on the front foot and it was no more than the deserves when the added a third in stoppage time. A quick break from their own half saw substitute Halim Bakre outsprint the Glebe back line and then send over a perfect low cross to put the ball on a plate for fellow substitute Jacob Katonia to slam home from close range.
The win cements Fisher in third place in the league for the turn of the year, with sixteen game to play in 2025. On this form Fisher may well be in the promotion shake up.

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