Worksop Town 1-3 Handsworth Parramore
The experience of the Handsworth side showed the ‘young ones’ of Worksop what it takes to compete in the NCEL. Saying that, in no way did the Tigers discredit themselves in the contest, they were very solid for around an hour.
It was announced on the eve of the Derby that the Tigers had signed Dan Gardner and Matty Overton from Rossington Main and Doncaster Rovers (‘work experience’ loan) respectively. Both of them started the game with the latter kicking off the chances in the tie ten minutes in. Overton received the ball with his back to goal. He dropped his shoulder one way, turned the other and fired his shot over the bar.
Ten minutes later, Overton was showing off his attacking prowess to his new club and had the best chance of the half so far. Luke Black out-paced his marker and crossed into the middle. Overton crept round his man and volleyed towards goal which beat the keeper but unfortunately, also beat the post by inches.Jack Holden has been impressing as of late since his call up from the Under 19s squad and he went close on the half hour mark. Holden received the ball to his chest. As two Parramore players went to tackle Jack, he cleverly tapped the ball over the defending pair, ran around them and volleyed towards goal. However the effort was tame and the keeper got down to save it with ease.
Moments later, Mitch Husbands had a great chance to break the deadlock. James Milner made his way along the byline and cut it back to the Worksop captain who sliced it just over the bar.
Parramore slowly made their way into the game. A free-kick wide right of the pitch was headed across goal by Istead to Radford who took the ball down and scuffed his effort which was picked up by Fielding.
The 'Amber Parras' struck the frame of the goal on the stroke of half-time. Ex-Tiger Jordan Turner dispossessed Tyler Lysons of the ball. He then struck a ferocious shot towards goal, from a tight angle, which cannoned off the post to Alex Rippon who instantly shot across the face of goal and wide. The Halftime whistle went and both teams went in at the break at 0-0.
Jordan Turner almost broke the stalemate in the fixture. Turner escaped the attention of the Tigers backline as he took down Jamie Green's switch from the left. Turner shot but the Worksop number one rushed out and blocked with his face. In the end it wouldn't have counted as the linesman had already raised his flag.On the hour mark, Parramore were edging closer, and closer to that opening goal. Steven Istead redirected Green's corner towards goal but saw his chance blocked on the line by Lysons. The ball fell to the feet of Josh Hemmingway who completely fluffed his lines and skied from close range.
Unfortunately for the Tigers, the previous scare from the visitors turned into reality as they took the lead in similar fashion to the chance. Turner saw his header blocked by the body of Matty Templeton. After a bit of a scramble, the ball fell kindly for Lee Cooksey to smash home into the roof of the net.
Soon after, Parramore's lead was nearly doubled just after the 72nd minute. Turner darted down the right-hand side. He accurately picked out the run of Jonathan Hill who ended up stabbing the ball wide.
Worksop Town levelled the game up with nine minutes of normal time left. Jack Barnett rifled his free-kick, from around 30 yards, straight into the Handsworth wall and the ball fizzed up straight into the air. When it came back down from 'orbit', the ball was flicked on by the back of Alex Boyd to Mitch Husbands who turned and fired the ball into the back of the net.
But in spite of the equaliser, Handsworth took the lead once again two minutes later. Callum Fielding attempted to catch the corner but struggled to get there due to the amount of bodies in front of him. This caused the young lad to spill he ball to the feet of Turner. Turner scuffed his effort but Jonathan Hill took his chance as he buried the loose ball into the Tigers goal.
The three points were in the bag for Parramore when the referee awarded them a penalty. Another former Tiger Jed Phillips raced through on goal but was impeded by Boyd. Jordan Turner stepped up and hit the penalty straight down the middle to dishearten his former employers.
Attendance: 428
Goals: Husbands (81'); Cooksey (70'), Hill (83'), Turner (87')
MOTM: Alex Boyd
WTFC: Callum Fielding; Tiler Lysons, Dan Gardner, Jay Bownes, Alex Boyd, James Milner (Matty Templeton); Jack Holden (Igor Mlynarski), Jack Barnett; Matty Overton, Mitch Husbands, Luke Black (Charlie Baird)
Unused Subs: Josh Diggles, Harry Dunbar
HPFC: James Leverton; Oliver Yates (William Eades), Lee Cooksey, Oscar Radford, Bradley Nicholson; Joshua Hemmingway, Jed Phillips, Steven Istead, Jamie Green; Jordan Turner, Alex Rippon (Jonathan Hill)
Unused Subs: James Ashmore, Paries Dixon, Jonathon Froggatt
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