CF MOLINA 'B' v MAZARRON FC

FINAL SCORE Molina 1 Mazarron FC 4

On a lovely end of March Saturday the loyal Mazarron FC fans made their way to Molina to spend an enjoyable afternoon in the sun watching a much improved Mazarron team playing their second game under the new coach Javi. The excellent Molina stadium has obviously seen better days and could do with a lick of paint and the pitch needed some attention, but we have seen worse (Corvera!!!)

And Javi sprang a surprise before the kickoff by installing Ruben back between the sticks relegating Marcos to the bench, so we all held our breath wondering what Ruben was going to turn up, but fortunately it was the good Ruben.

Mazarron FC were missing Enrique, Ismael and Chema through injury, but their replacements did an excellent job.

Mazarron took control of this game from the off with the first action taking place after just 2 minutes when the excellent Randry collected the ball from Cecillio, who was on from the start for once, Randry slipped the ball through to Jose Ruben (JR) after beating the last defender and with only the keeper to beat he blasted the ball over the bar, what a miss.

A few moments later it was Randry again beating 3 defenders before he put the ball on the plate for Cecillio then onto Tolo, back to Cecillio who fluffed his line when it appeared easier to score. But the chances kept coming and next time it would have it's reward.

Following a rare Molina attack braking down the ball was quickly pumped forward to find a suspiciously offside Tolo on his own who rounded the stranded goal minder to slot the ball home.

0-1

The link up play between the Mazarron FC team was excellent and the outstanding Alcaraz was soon in the action with an through ball to the awaiting JR who then slipped it through to Tolo but with three Mazarron players waiting in the Molina area Tolo saw the 'red mist' come down and smashed the ball high and wide where as a simple pass would have brought a certain second goal, pity.

In the 19th minute the three main Mazarron threats, Tolo, JR and Cecillio linked up only for Cecillio getting the ball trapped under his feet and the chance was gone. This was shortly followed by Tolo taking on the entire Molina back line and his thunderbolt of a shot was pushed around the base of the post, just, for a corner. From the corner Mazarron pinned the home side back into their own penalty area and the obvious outcome happened when Tolo did a quick one-two before stroking the ball home

0-2

It took until the 33rd minute before Molina bothered Rubens in the Mazarron goal but their first effort went well wide. Randry, playing on the left wing, was hit a speculative long ball into the corner to chase, where most would have given up he ran the ball down, beat the nearest defender and it took a fine save to keep the ball out of the 'onion bag'.

The action didn't stop coming and next up it was Rubens turn to 'do his bit' when an excellent free kick from the edge of the box was stopped by the Mazarron defenders only to see the ball being set up nicely for a Molina player was hammered the ball towards the Mazarron goal but again Ruben's was there again the pull of another great save,

The final action of the first half fell to Cecillio who received the ball, just on the edge of the penalty area, but fluffed his lines and the chance was gone.

HALFTIME Molina 0 Mazarron FC 2

The second half started like an express train when after just 5 minutes Tolo completed his hat trick when the commanding figure of Tico who was pulling the strings in the middle of the pitch punched the ball through to Mazarrons prolific striker who left the keeper for dead before slipping the ball home.

0-3

It took only five more minutes before it was four nil and it happened in controversial circumstances. It all started with Alcaraz strolling through 3 defenders and to slip the ball through to JR who had only the keeper to beat. The keeper ran out to the edge of the box and sent JR flying, was it in the box? on the edge of the box? Surely a red card as the keeper was the last defender and he prevented a goal scoring chance? But the decision was a yellow for the keeper and a free kick from the edge of the box. Uproar from the travelling fans but justice was done when up steps JR who stroked the ball through the wall and beat the keeper all ends up to make the score:

0-4

It was noticed that Juan Andreo was by this time was limping quite badly and was replaced by Salvi from the bench and this seemed to change the game. The balance of the team was disturbed and Molina came more and more into the game with the assistance of the officials who seemed to change from excellent and unbiased to poor with a leaning towards Molina over a very short period of time, why, I don't know. And following a another good save by the Molina keeper he pumped a long ball up field to a striker who was well, well off side, at the time the lines man was scuttling back to try and get in line but appeared to have missed the offside player and the flag stayed down and despite the best efforts of Ruben the home team pulled one back.

1-4

The game became a 'stop, start' affair with the constant blowing of the whistle breaking up play and the fluidity of the game was gone and a lot of niggley fouls were being committed by both sides put a dampener on the match. And there was really only one more bit of action to note in the 81st minute when a JR effort just cleared the bar.

The final whistle was greeted by the usual 'jingle bells' song and the visiting fans trooped of having tasted success for the first time in five games.

FINAL SCORE Molina 1 Mazarron FC 4

Team

Ruben, Juan Andreo, Alcaraz, Dani, Gilberto, Tico, Moha, Cecillio, Jose Ruben, Tolo, Randry.

Subs used

Salvi, Juanillio.

Subs unused

Marcos.

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