Newcastle Blue Star 1 - Lancaster City 2:

DEADLY DODGSON

A solid defence and midfield working for each other upset one of the best sides in the league giving the opportuninty for Lee Dodgson to weave his magic and score a brace within 22 minutes.

The first was an inch perfect lob over Newcastle keeper Lowson and just under the crossbar on 9 minutes from 12 yards out. The second,13 minutes later was due to the City defence stopping another of the dangerous moves by the home side and providing Dodgson to break away and double Lancaster's lead.

Like the previous away game at Halifax the home side had most of the possesion and only 29 goal Brayson capatilised on this to reduce the lead on 38 minutes. They also had two other efforts in the first period that had hit the woodwork after another goalmouth scramble Newcastle hit the crossbar and bounced back into safety. The other was from a fierce drive wide on the right that hit the side of the post.

Newcastle used all their three substitutes in an attempt to keep their promotion hopes alive but the whole City team worked as one unit to give them the points.

On a day when Shearer returned to Newcastle that is United he will want a better end product. At least the crowd will be more than the 73 at Kingston Park.

 

 

Barry Newsham
Wednesday 1st April 2009

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