Truro City 1, Bath City 2 - match stats

[Tom Trust]

Truro:

McHale, Palfrey (Thompson 65), Riley-Lowe, Palmer, Gerring (C), Richards, Keats, Allen, Neal (Yetton 71), Cooke (Harvey 71), Harding. Subs not used: Hartridge, Lamont.

Goal attempts: 11. 1 goal (Cooke 25), 2 saved (Keats 53, Palmer FK 56), 3 blocked (Keats 82, Harvey 90, 90+4), 5 off target (Neal 15, Palmer 22, Keats 56, Thompson 67, Yetton 79).
3 corners (left 7, 22, right 82), 1 offside, 18 FKs conceded inc 1 pen.
3 yellows (Neal 40, Gerring 48, Harding 75).

Bath:

Southwood, Rigg, Straker, Batten, Ball, Case, Lemonheigh-Evans, Artus (C), McCootie (Jarvis 39), Morgan, Watkins (Murphy 76) Subs not used: Lucas, Compton,Welch-Hayes.

Goal attempts 6 inc 1 pen. 2 goals (L-Evans pen 33, Strake rFK 49 - Bath tweets gave it to Artus who must be who the FK got deflected by), 1 saved (Watkins 46), 1 blocked (Artus 46), 2 off-target (L-Evans FKs 10, 12).
1 corner (right 65), 1 offside, 15 FKs conceded.
1 yellow (McCootie 36).

Ref: Scott Jackson (Somerset), Assts Sean Rothwell, Mark Senior (both Devon).

Gate 676. Winning 50/50 4419.

Disappointing if predictable. Stats show that we had almost twice the attempts on goal than Bath but this means nothing if you can't hit the target often enough or get the breaks.
Off target means everything from over the clubhouse to scraping a post. The latter sort of acceptable, the former not.
Losing to a penalty and a deflected shot is - just football. Get over it, move on. Cody's goal ended a bit of nice football. Bath's tactics weren't pretty but they made things happen. McCootie's substitution gave a glimmer of amusement!


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