Shotts
B.A. 5-2 Cambuslang Rangers
Rockware
Glass Super First division
Saturday
2nd November
at
Hannah Park
Cambuslang
suffered one of their worst defeats in recent season when they went down by 5
goals to two against bottom side Shotts at the weekend. Cambuslang, who were
sitting proudly joint top of the league were sent crashing after a remarkable
collapse despite opening the scoring after only two minutes form then on it was
all downhill.
Cambuslang
were forced into a couple of changes when Defender Kavanagh was out through
injury as was McFarlane. The loss of Kavanagh was obvious in the score line.
Billy Holmes, in his centenary season was given a starting spot and Foster took
over in defence for Jim Kavanagh. James Fay dropped to the bench; Stewart
Taylor took his spot.
The
visitors made the perfect start to the game when they opened the scoring after
only two minutes. He chested down a pass and then unleashed his shot past the
Shotts keeper. Cambuslang despite taking the early lead and going on to
dominate most of the first half Cambuslang were unable to add to the early
goal. Daisley was the first booking after two fouls in quick succession. He was
quickly followed by Shotts Church. The home side grabbed the equaliser on the
35 minute mark and some poor defending saw Sinclair flick the ball home from
close range. This was to be the beginning of the Shotts revival. Cambuslang had
a chance to retake the lead but Daisley saw his effort well saved by the Shotts
keeper.
H-T
1-1
Cambuslang
made a change at the break, bringing on James Fay for Stewart Taylor.
Cambuslang found themselves behind early in the second half and again it was
poor marking that cost the visitors dearly. The Lang defence seemed to back off
allowing the Shotts players to come at them. In the 54th minute Steve Rixon
latched onto a John Boyack pass and drove the ball past McGovern for the Bon
Accord's second. In the 67th minute Rixon did it all himself, taking a long
ball from defence way out on the left, bearing down on the keeper and slipping
it under his body for the third. In the 82nd minute sub John Brown gave away
his third penalty in as many games and Carmichael slotted home to set up
what should have been a grandstand finish but the stuffing was finally knocked
out of Cambuslang when Shotts scored only minutes later. Fraser Church stabbed
the ball high into the net after McGovern had dropped a corner at his
feet. Although to be fair to the Lang keeper it did look as if he was impeded
going for the ball, but the referee allowed the goal to stand much to the
annoyance of the Lang players. Doak complained long and hard about this
goal and was given a yellow for his trouble. Continuing with the dissent
and he promptly got another and was sent off to round off a miserable
afternoon for the Lang .In the last minute of normal time Shotts went down the
left, the ball was passed to Wilson who laid it off to Boyack who teed it
up for sub Dave Jackson and he drove home the fifth from about 15 yards. Shotts
deserved this very welcome win but Lang were perhaps unlucky in conceding five
after they had dominated the first half hour.
Line
up
McGovern,
Doak, McGregor, Foster (McCrae 70), Webster, Ferguson, Paterson, Holmes, Taylor
(Fay 45), Daisley,(Dignam 60) Carmichael
Subs
not used Stoddart and Galloway