Starting Line Up - Poulton, Pleass, Hendren, Bone (captain), K Willmoth, Langford, Matthews, Griffin, Beale, Mooney, Stroud.
Despite losing their 1st league game of the season on Saturday. The team from the valley came with 30 travelling fans, assisting with the total attendance of 77.
Lambourn started tentativley and both teams pumped long balls towards either set of back 4's, with captain Bone dealing comfortably for the away side. Milton got into their stride quicker, appearing more comfortable on the ball and playing a more attractive form of football. Local lad and village paper boy, Alex Hendren could take no more, so he went meandering down the left flank taking on 2 Milton players and when in the box crossed to veteran Mooney who laid the ball on a plate to Matthews who caressed the ball in the net. Lambourn 1-0 up, the crowd went wild!
Sadly, the early goal did not settle Lambourn and a suspect backpass from skipper Bone to his goalkeeper, which bounced up led our goalkeeper to handle the ball. The ref blew his whistle, booked Poooey for intentional handling and Milton equalised from the resulting indirect free kick.
For the subsequent 5 minutes Lambourn defended desperatly, until wonderkid, Hendren went on yet another mazey down the left hand side, fed inside to Griffin who earned a free kick. Mooney attempted to catch the Milton goalkeeper off his line, however proceeded to put the ball in the field behind the goal. On 15 minutes Mooney rolled back the years and broke through the home teams defence, unfortunatly he could not control his shot and skied his shot for a 2nd time.
On the half hour mark, Stroud made his 1st impact on the game by winning a 50/50 with the Milton goalkeeper, the ball fell to Mooney down the left hand side who cleverly chipped the ball towards the far post, the goalkeeper managed to guide the ball onto the bar, however the ball fell to Stroud who was rewarded for his own initial good work and calmly scored to put Lambourn back in front.
On 32 minutes, Lambourn's keeper made up for his earlier mistake by putting a rasping Milton shot over the cross bar.
Half time and Lambourn were delighted to be walking off 2-1 up despite not playing the better football or having the bulk of the possession.
The 2nd half got under way and this was the last thing the boys from the valley wanted, poor defending from a Milton free kick allowed a headed equalising goal.
Bizarrely, this goal appeared to galvanise the Labmourn team and they began to look a far better unit, by playing a more attractive brand of football, which saw them increase their possesion.
Sam Connors came on for Beale on the left hand side of midfield after 55 minutes.
Captain Bone had a chance to put his side back in fornt when the ball fell to him in the home side's box, however his shot was well blocked by the goalkeeper.
On 65 minutes, local boy and tarmacer Richard Guy came on for Griffin, this proved to be an inspirational move by Lambourn's management as Guy was released clear to luanch a thunderous shot into the Milton net to put the away team in the lead 3-2.
The game was delayed for 5 minutes after Guy's goal while new nets were replaced into the home side's goal.
Guy was proving to be a handful and was superbly put in by the argumentative Matthews, however could not convert on this occasion.
Lambourn continued to be dominant, which left Milton with no option than to continual foul the Lambourn players. 1 such foul resulted in a Mooney free kick on 83 minutes, which was blasted towards the Milton goal, the shot was too hot for their goalkeeper to handle and it fell to Connors who was a yard out, but unfortunatly his shot did not reach the goal line. What a shame the game could have been out of sight.
The game came towards an end not before the impressive Stroud put Mooney in 1 more time, with only the keeper to beat, however unselfishly rather than go for goal, Mooney decided to play for time and kicked the ball towards the corner flag.
All over and Lambourn are on their way with an impressive 3-2 victory away from home.
Managers Clarke and Macnally declined interviews after the game.
Man of the match - Danny Langford.
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