Ruthless Pershore Sink Spa

Droitwich Spa Men opened up with their summer League campaign with a match against Pershore away, despite losing 5-2, with a brace from Craig Smith, there were positives which Spa can take away from this match.

Droitwich opened the encounter in composed fashion, with chances being spurned by Matthew Darbyshire and Craig Timmis in the early exchanges.

However, Pershore scored after 8 minutes from their first attack; their second arrived with a neat lob finish over Spa Keeper George Robertshaw; and their 3rd arrived after 26 minutes the ball squeezing past Robertshaw on his near post.

Droitwich continued to press, with right wing back Mark Bartle distributing the ball out wide to Matthew Darbyshire who continued to use his pace to fashion chances for Craig Smith and Marcus Claytor whose control let them down in the circle.

A precision pass from Richard Waters from the edge of Droitwich circle after a defensive hit was awarded set up Craig Smith who neatly turned the defender in the circle before flicking the ball into the top right hand corner past the advancing keeper to leave Droitwich 3-1 behind at the break.

Second half Droitwich were more resilient and compact passing the ball around confidently and building attacks both down the left and right as they looked to cut the defecit.

Droitwich second arrived after Richard Waters pass caused confusion in Pershore defence resulting in their keeper leaving the ball in explicably for Craig Smith to pounce and score from close in.

George Robershaw continued to keep Spa to with in one goal as he made a series of excellent saves as Pershore peppered him with high and undercut shots, including coming to smother an effort at the top of the D where the forward could not beat him one on one. He was backed up by his defence partners Alexei Payne raced across the circle from the left to clear an effort off the line to keep the score 3-2.

Droitwich pace provided other opportunities but the forwards could not apply finishing touches.

Pershore pressure eventually paid dividends as they scored two goals in the last 7 minutes to leave the final score 5-2.

Spa look to take the pace and movement in to the next game against Evesham as they look to build the kind of momentum the ladies have seen over their summer league campaaign

Droitwich game against Evesham pushes back at home at 730pm on Wednesday 11th June , so come down and support the team and club!