A brilliant performance from the Tigers as the youngsters run out late winners against Gainsborough Trinity’s under 19s.
Gainsborough went two goals ahead in the opening twenty minutes through Birkelund and Szanto but Worksop clawed their way back with goals from Gee, Pritchard and Stead, the latters goal coming three minutes from fulltime.
Trinity were straight out of the blocks as Brad Mears slotted the ball through to Marcus Birkelund to finish past Callum Fielding.
Worksop came back swinging and the dominance from the Tigers began to kick in. Mason Gee had two chances inside two minutes of each other. First his freekick from 25 yards was palmed wide from the keepers right as it was sneaking in the corner, then Gee slalomed his way through the Gainsborough backline and hit a shot but the keeper got down to his effort.
As Worksop were on top, Trinity sneaked in the second as Vieiria sent through Szanto who rifled his shot into the back of the net to put the visitors 2-0 up.
It only took the hosts two minutes to pull a goal back thanks to a lovely solo effort as Gee left three Gainsborough players for dead, turned Abdubraheen and then slotted it past Harrison Crabtree.
Gee and Hurcombe both had chances to equalise on the stroke of halftime, Gee almost recreated his goal by toying with the defence but his shot struck the bar and fell into the path of Ryan Hurcombe who snatched at his shot and hit it across the face of goal.
Two minutes after the restart Callum Fielding saved brilliantly from Szanto as he crept past his marker, this would be Gainsborough’s last chance before Worksop went into cruise control.
Liam Pritchard equalised on 70 minutes as he headed home unmarked at the back post following Igor Mlynarski’s mazy run down the wing and cross.
Mlynarski almost added a goal to his previous assist as his driven shot was parried away from goal by ex-Tiger Ed Birch who replaced Harrison Crabtree between the sticks at halftime.
The team in Amber and Black got their well deserved winner through Owen Stead as the clock struck 87 minutes, the midfielder volleyed the ball home following a game of head tennis in the box after a corner kick.
A fantastic performance from the Worksop Town Under 19s who gave their all and played for the shirt. Manager Jonathan Bownes believed the squads strength in depth and the effort shown was key to the win, he said afterwards 'The first five minutes they looked a great side and I don’t think we touched the ball before it went into the back of our net. Obviously we went 2-0 down and at that point the team spirt could have gone two ways, you can either dig in or you can crumble and I thought we dug in tonight. We went in at halftime at 2-1, I asked the lads what they wanted and I said what me and Lee wanted from them and they executed the game plan in the second half. I think all the subs made a big difference tonight; Holden, Smith and Larder showed us that we have great strength in depth and hopefully we showed the team spirit we wanted to show'.
After a thrilling opening win to kickoff the league campaign, we now turn our attention to the next round of the FA Youth Cup away at Bottesford Town (Thursday 21st September, 7.45pm kickoff). Jon gave his thoughts on the upcoming fixture ‘It’s a difficult one because of the age difference, we have to have an overhaul of the squad as ten of tonight’s squad aren’t eligible and me and Lee will have a sit down and think about the best possible squad we can pick. Again we have great strength in depth and quality all the way through. Bottesford are an unknown quantity and we know nothing about them so I’m looking forward to the game, it should be a good experience for our lads’.
Bownes then expressed the importance of the FA Youth Cup and shared his own experience of playing in the competition, ‘I can only speak from experience as I played for Worksop Town in the same cup and we went through three or four rounds, we drew Marine away and we still talk about that moment now. I don’t think the lads know how special the FA Cup and the FA Youth Cup are and how good they are to play in so for me it’s about the occasion. We need to embrace the game and not leave the pitch thinking we should of won that tie, we should come off thinking we gave our all and get the result we want’.
Attendance: 85
Lineup: Fielding, Walker (Larder 60’), Sutton (Blakemore 83’), Bundrick, Blythe, Stead, Mylnarski, Williams, Pritchard (Smart 80’), Gee (Holden 67’), Hurcombe (Smith 57’)
Goals: Gee (23’), Pritchard (70’), Stead (87’); Birkelund (2’), Szanto (21’)
Bookings: Blythe (50’)
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