Match Report

Poole Town
2
Hendon
2
Date:
Saturday 12 August 2023
Competition:
Southern League Premier Division South
Attendance:
439
Venue:
Poole Town

Match Report

A solid, and often enterprising performance by Lee Allinson's men garnered an unexpected, but highly deserved point at one of the pre-season promotion favourites, Poole Town.

On a blustery, but warm sunny afternoon, the home side set about their task with all the vigour you'd expect from a side that had scored seven on the road the previous week. However, the Hendon defence, comprising three centre-halves kept the dangerous and prolific duo of Tony Lee and Toby Holmes at arm's length.

The first clearcut opportunity of the afternoon led to the first goal, with LEE getting his head onto a cross at the far post and delivering a bullet header beyond Matt Kerbey.

Hendon, resplendent in their new away kit of all sky blue, responded well, with skipper Joe White firing wastefully into the Solent from a good position inside the penalty area, and the effervescent Billy Leonard having an effort deflected wide.

After the break, Hendon took a stranglehold on the game thanks, in part, to the efforts of Blaise Riley-Snow and Leonard in midfield, and the willing running of the two wing-backs Lucas Perry and Sam Adenola.

The equaliser was set up by Perry in the 53rd minute, when his adroit square pass found WHITE in space inside the area, and the skipper coolly slotted the ball into the bottom corner of the net beyond home 'keeper Luke Cairney.

Seven minutes later, Adenola was the creator as he outpaced his marker down the right flank and knocked the ball into the near post where Niko MUIR met it with a deliciously judged looping header beyond Cairney into the far corner of the net.

Although perhaps not rampant, Hendon were well on top. Another ball in from Perry from the left was wildly hacked just wide of his own post by a Poole defender, while Riley-Snow thundered a daisy-cutter a foot wide of Cairney's right-hand post.

The hosts responded late on, and Kerbey was required to make a fine save from a powerful strike from Toby Holmes before a barrage of balls into the Hendon box.

All but one were dealt with by the Hendon back line, and from the one that wasn't, Harvey Wright's blocked shot rebounded to Harry Hutchinson who calmly smashed the ball home to grab a share of the spoils.

Report by John Rogers

Hendon

1
Matt Kerbey
2
Samuel Adenola
3
Lucas Perry
4
Blaise Riley-Snow
5
Dan Matsuzaka
6
Dave Diedhiou
7
William Dupray
8
Billy Leonard
9
Joe White
10
Niko Muir
11
Hamza Semakula
12
Shaun Lucien
14
Frank Keita
15
Florian Endouvou Ada
16
Giovanni Palmer
17
Simeon Olarerin

Match Events

Tony-James Lee
27''
53''
Joe White
Luke Pardoe replaced Will Spetch
60''
60''
Niko Muir
Alefe Santos D'Abadia replaced Luke Nippard
69''
78''
Florian Endouvou Ada replaced Billy Leonard
84''
Frank Keita replaced Hamza Semakula
Destiny Ojo replaced Cameron Murray
84''
Harry Hutchinson
88''

Poole Town

1
Luke Cairney
3
Harry Hutchinson
4
Will Spetch
5
Jamie Whisken
9
Tony-James Lee
10
Toby Holmes
11
Jack Dickson
12
Luke Nippard
14
Harvey Wright
15
Cameron Murray
19
Wes Fogden
2
Declan Rose
7
Alefe Santos D'Abadia
13
William Butler
16
Luke Pardoe
17
Destiny Ojo