Glencairn 2-1 Cambuslang Rangers
Sectional League Cup
Wednesday 10th August
at Southcroft
Glencairn and Cambuslang went head to head in the first meeting of
the 2 sides since this competition last season. Cambuslang suffered 2 defeats
at the hands of their local rivals and were hoping to avenge this.
Glencairn, the lower league side, were a bit sluggish at the start
and it was Cambuslang looking the more threatening of the two. Indeed
Cambuslang opened the scoring after only 7 minutes when Tyzcinski chested into
the path of McLuskey who rifled home a shot from the edge of the box.
The first yellow of the game went to Glens centre half Scott Smith
for persistent fouling. Glencairn had settled into a bit of a rhythm and were
beginning to find gaps in the Lang defence. Gallagher played the ball inside
Kerr who was easily out ran by Donaldson who then hit a shot into the top
corner that McGovern in the Lang goal could only stand and watch. Cambuslang
picked up their first booking of the game and Wade the sinner for speaking out
of turn. Cambuslang almost regained the lead on 36 minutes but Menelews saw his
effort well saved. Jarvis for the Glens talked himself into the refs book just
before the break. And he was quickly followed by Lang captain Andy Noble, again
dissent the reason.
H-T 1-1
Cambuslang made a change at the break and they brought on Porter
for Wade. Cambuslang had another excellent chance to regain the lead but Porter
fired wide after a mix up in the Glens defence. On 54 minutes Glencairn should
have been down to 10 men when Macaninch took a wild kick at Lang Tyzcinski but
the ref thought this only merited a yellow card. On the hour mark Cambuslang
introduced Chris Faulds to the action in place of Gilroy.
The final 15 minutes were all action. Glencairn freshened things
up front, withdrawing the Gallagher and Donaldson and putting on the fresh
legs of McDowell and Kondol. McDowell showed terrific skill to beat two
men on the bye-line, and his cut back fell nicely for Dickson, who took a touch
and picked his spot in the corner of the net to put Glens 2-1 ahead, despite a
brave attempt at a save by the Lang keeper McGovern
Cambuslang threw everything forward in the closing stages and left
themselves wide open at the back to the counter-attack. Two incredible
goal-mouth scrambles saw Glens survive thanks to some terrible misses and the
crossbar, and when the Lang keeper decided to come up for a corner in injury
time, he was almost embarrassed as Glens cleared and McDowell had an open goal
to shoot into from the halfway line. Fortunately for the Lang the shot wasn't
strong enough, although it was on target, and Gray got back to clear for a
corner.
Coupled with Saturday's results (Glens 1 Blantyre 2 and East
Kilbride 2 Vale of Clyde 0) it now means the winner of the match (played
as Reformer went to print) between Cambuslang and East Kilbride will
progress to the quarter final stages. Cambuslang have home advantage and will
be hoping to come out on top.
Lang
McGovern, O'Neil, Burns, Noble, Gray, Coulter, Wade (Porter 46),
McLuskey, Menelews, Gilroy (Faulds 60), Tyczinski (Simpson 88)
(Subs not used) - Love & Trialist