Hatrick scorer Barry Corrigan

We were at home against samba boys Bromley Flamengo who we had already beaten in the league this season but who had hit some good form in the last couple of weeks with 4-0 and 7-0 wins so was expecting a very tough game, and would have to be at our very best to get through to the next round of the Jack Standen Cup.
Bromley came out playing there 1and 2 touch football and although looked good wasn't troubling EP who were much more incisive with there attacks getting behind Bromleys defence on numerous occasions with james Walden and Adam causing most of the problems on the flanks, it was from one of these attacks that adam got to the byline and fired in a low cross for Barry to tap home. EP now started to play there own form of samba football which had Flamengo holding on but surprised the EP defence with a long ball that was not dealt with allowing the Flamengo No 10 to run on to and slot home. There was no feeling sorry for ourselves the players just picked up were they were before knocking the ball about and with Bes pulling all the strings it looked like only a matter of time before we opened Flamengo up again and James Court did just that with a stunning 30yd strike that went pass the keeper before he could move. On the 40 minute mark Bes went on a mazy run got to the byline drilled in a near post cross for Barry to make it 3-1 at half time.

The second half started with EP getting straight back on top and when Bes made it 4-1 you could see the Flamengo players visibly wilt ,the best was yet to come with EP controlling possession and making Flamengo work hard to win it back and when number 5 came it had gone through every EP player before Barry again popped up in the 6yd box to get his hatrick. Steve scored nuber 6 before plucky flamengo scored a second and number 7 came when Brookie popped up on the right and struck a sweet left shot and hit steve before entering the net ( the dubious goals committee has awarded Brookie the goal after generously buying them a Drink), Final score 7-2.
As normal in a game like this the defenders don't seem to get much of a mention but apart for a couple of lapses they totally dominated the Flamengo forward so a big well done to Tom,Ross,Scott,and Matt Broome. Now lets looked forward to next weeks game our old bogey side Masters.