Dunstable 2 -0 Wealdstone
Dunstable2 - 0
WealdstoneA disappointing result after a dismal second half performance at Dunstable. the omens were against us from the off when the centre pages of the programme showed that the Stones line-up had failed to arrive at the printers, and at times you were left to wonder if they had turned up on the pitch.
Stones tried to play a long ball game to put the home defence under pressure, and what little action there was in the first half was created by Stones, a Jolly shot was spilled and then recovered by the home keeper, but the closest to a goal were two clearances over their own crossbar by the two Dunstable full backs, each a foot lower would have seen Stones go in with a two goal lead.
Playing with the wind in the second half, Stones were guilty of overhitting numerous passes and their best chance again was when the keeper spilled a Burrell free kick, the ball going out for a corner.
There was little to excite the sparse crowd from either side, and it was two errors that lead to the Dunstable goals – the first on 61 minutes when Hemmerdinger was caught in possession, Barnett breaking away and giving Carter no chance with his shot and the second in the 80th minute when Stones had three attempts at clearing from the six yard box, each failing before Barnett again bundled the ball home.
A triple substitution failed to light a spark for Wealdstone and in fact had the reverse effect as what little progress in attack Stones had made in the half was halted as the side became disjointed and struggled still further.
It was a night that Manager Gordon Bartlett and his players will want to forget very quickly and it’s a tough week ahead to try and get this season back on the rails.
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