New boys give edge to Casuals

Aug 27 2008 Surrey Herald

RYMAN ONE SOUTH Fleet Town ..................................0 Walton Casuals...........................4

A very impressive performance saw slick Casuals move into third place - helping themselves to their best away win since joining the Ryman League and inflicting Fleet's heaviest home defeat in nearly three years.

Casuals first chance fell to John Ambridge as early as the fifth minute, but his close range header from Sonny Farr's free kick went straight into the hands of Jones in the Fleet goal.

But three minutes later the powerful close-season signing Victor Asombang came through two tackles before blasting past Jones from 20 yards. Asombang added his and Casuals' second after 19 minutes. Craig Lewington delivered a corner and Asombang headed home via the bar in a crowded six-yard box.

Fleet rang the changes at the interval, bringing on two substitutes and briefly looked dangerous.

But they never really tested debutant 19-year-old keeper Elliot Ransom, due to some excellent defending by the back four of Stack, Ambridge, Francis and Morris.

Casuals made sure of the points when Rob Ursell set Matt Weston away down the left, and after beating a defender he smashed the ball through Jones from 20 yards after 63 minutes. The icing on the cake came in injury time when Michael Cayford received the ball and rifled home past Jones from all of 30 yards out.

Walton Casuals............................... 1 Chipstead........................................ 1 I

N A match that never really got into second gear, Casuals maintained their unbeaten start to the campaign, on Saturday.

Matt Weston burst through on 20 minutes, but his snapshot was comfortably saved by Wastell in the Chipstead goal. Minutes before the break Danny Oakins' chip sailed just wide of Craig Bradshaw's goal.

The deadlock was broken by a piece of magic from Casuals' new boy Rob Ursell, who danced through the Chip's defence on the edge of the box and passed the ball into the net low to Wastell's left.

It was a lead that Casuals only managed to hold for nine minutes, Jamel Carr lost possession and Chipstead quickly broke and took advantage of the man over. The ball was fed to Josh Smith whose weak effort squeezed through the legs of Jack Francis to beat an unsighted Craig Bradshaw. Substitute Kyle Matthews and Matt Weston combined to pull a stunning save out of Wastell when he somehow managed to claw out Weston's powerful eight-yard header on 80 minutes.