North Leigh 0 AFC Dunstable 2

North Leigh 0-2 AFC Dunstable

Tuesday 4 th March 2025

A long old 50 mile schlep over to central Oxfordshire on a cold but pleasant March evening was

made to be worth it with the OD’s deservedly bringing home the points in what was a relatively

comfortable win.

We started extremely brightly and should have been 3 up in the opening half hour. As it was, the

two goals we did score in that period were enough. We took the lead early when Bruce was clearly

bundled over for a penalty with 8 minutes on the clock – the defender could and should have let the

ball and player run as the ball was going across the box following a mis-hit shot but he inexplicably

took Bruce out. Rico stepped up and smashed the ball home with good technique.

Bruce should have got himself on the scoresheet ten minutes later following a nice flowing move but

although he beat the onrushing goalkeeper, his shot clipped the post and away to safety. With just

over half an hour gone, we did double our lead with a fine header from Abel – 2-0 to AFC at half

time.

There were more chances for the OD’s in the second half but in spite of the best efforts of the team,

we could not add any further goals. Can’t really recall any clear chances for North Leigh in either

period of the game – our defence and keeper were not put under any real pressure but what they

had to do they did extremely well.

A good all round team display and some very good individual performances – several players were

discussed as potential man of the match – George, Rico and Ben in particular but the committee

decided on Joel Anker to take the award.

Team line up ; Matthew Bonsu, George Joyce, Rico Greco, Simone Troso, Ben Lynch, Shawn Joseph,

Bruce Ovbiye-Nsang, Charlie Davis, Russell Berko, Joel Anker, Abel Damoah-Kyeremeh.

Subs; Sean Duodu, Archie Long Nicholls, Kyle Brooks, Tali Jallow – all subs were used in the second

half but no details of who they replaced or at what time – sorry about that!!