Keith 1 v Deveronvale 1

MAROONS AND ‘VALE SHARE SPOILS

The way this game set off the fans must have thought they were in for a goal laden afternoon. Keith found the back of the net inside a minute, with ‘Vale equalising seven minutes later.  However, that ended the scoring with both sides battling the elements of wind and rain for most of the afternoon.

The Maroons had latest signing Ethan Smith from Turriff Utd making his home debut, and of course his pedigree is second to none, being the nephew of Keith FC Legend Kris “Nidds” Niddrie. His team made the perfect start, scoring with less than a minute on the clock, Liam Duncan pouncing to slam home from six yards for his 3rd goal of the season.

However, within seven minutes the Banffers were back in the game when Olek Dlugosz swept the ball home from the edge of the six yard box. ‘Vale then proceeded to take the game to the Maroons and Craig Reid was forced in to several saves. It was at the other end though with seven minutes remaining of the first half that Matty Tough ought to have found the target after racing through, only to clip his shot wide of target.

Neither side could quite edge in front again though Yunus seemed to set up the racing through Tough, and the referee admitted he made a mistake in awarding offside against the latter. Then with 10 minutes remaining, substitute Nathan McKeown saw his netbound shot cleared off the line.

Atrocious conditions for both teams in the second half, and all credit to both sets of players for battling until the end.

KEITH – Reid, Coull, Yeats, Smith, Robertson, Addison, Mooney, Killoh, Yunus, Tough, Duncan(McKeown 79).  Subs unused – Abdulkarim, Gordon, Brownie, Irvine.

Referee – Mr G Morrison