Formartine Utd 4 v Keith FC 0

MAROONS TUMBLE AT FORMARTINE

After three successive league wins, Keith made it six successive league defeats at Formartine last weekend. It is a cycle that the Maroons are finding hard to break, with trait of losing early goals continuing to be the order of the day. Conceding twice inside the opening 11 minutes left them on the back foot, and struggling to cope with the physicality of the game, this was always going to be a tall order.

After only four minutes, the visiting defence failed to clear their lines and ex-Maroons striker Jonny Smith reacted to scramble the ball home amidst a ruck of players from 8 yards. The rearguard was breached again seven minutes later when Daniel Park, another ex Keith forward, looking suspiciously offside whipped the ball over into the six yard box from the right wing, and the unfortunate Kieran Yeats sliced it into the roof of his own net.

To be fair, Craig Ewen’s side clawed back into the game, but without causing the home goalie too much trouble. They were hit again with 32 minutes on the clock when Aaron Norris found the target with a fine looping header from 10 yards.

A better second half performance looked like bearing some fruit, but with 64 minutes gone an unfortunate 4th goal was conceded. A drop ball was the outcome when the referee got in the way of play in the middle of the park,  and a James Brownie slip allowed Scott Lisle to capitalise, racing through to clip the ball beyond the helpless Demus. 

It’s been a tough run of matches, but points now need to be secured against sides around the  same position in the league table.

KEITH – Demus, F Yeats, K Yeats, Hutcheon, Robertson, Yunus, Andrews (Mooney 72), Brownie, Tough (Ironside 72), Gray (Nawrocki 68), Selfridge. Subs unused – Abdulkarim, Irvine. 

Referee – Mr S Leslie

Saturday 19th March 2022, KO 3pm
Report by Charlie Simpson