Penistone Church reserves 0-2 Worsbrough Bridge
Captain Conor Glavin’s screamer set Worsbrough Bridge on the path to a solid victory at Penistone Church reserves on Monday night.
Glavin scored on the hour mark and Matt Semley sealed the win late-on after sliding the ball home from Callum Walton’s fine cross.
The result continues Worsbrough’s really positive pre-season.
Rather than peddling doom and gloom with bad results, Worsbrough have been a good news story with three wins and one draw so far which gives all Bridge followers a reason to feel excited and positive about the new Toolstation NCEL Division One season.
The first half was a fairly non-event – plenty of effort, but few chances.
Penistone themselves were playing for the first time in pre-season – in preparation for the 4th September start of the Sheffield & Hallamshire County Senior League Premier Division campaign – and the match was Scott Briggs and John Whitehead’s first as joint managers.
Worsbrough had a brief scare at the start of the second half when goalkeeper Ross Pritchard had to palm a header onto the crossbar.
Worsbrough began to exert some control on proceedings minutes before Glavin’s goal – perhaps due to being a few weeks ahead on the fitness front.
One to watch Harley Holt, a Church reserve team player last season, put out a warning flare.
The teenage potential wonder-kid burst from deep took two defenders on before cutting inside the penalty area and hammering the ball towards the net. Only a last-ditch block denied him a goal on his old stomping ground.
Church denied him, but not Glavin who volleyed from the edge of the penalty area to break the deadlock.
Penistone then wasted two glorious chances which both finished up with the ball landing on the clubhouse roof.
The misses came back to haunt as Worsbrough settled the contest in the last ten minutes when Semley turned in ex-Handsworth reserve team star Walton’s cross.
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