Johnstone
Burgh 2-1 Cambuslang Rangers
Abercorn Builders Premier League
Saturday 13th October
at Keanie Park
Cambuslang Rangers suffered
another disappointing 2-1 defeat at the weekend when they travelled to
Johnstone Burgh. Manager Andy Cunningham made a number of changes to the side
that lost the previous game to Lanark. Coulter had to make do with a place on the
bench as did Stuart Maxwell. Graeme Doak was given a starting slot alongside
Watson who too was making his first start of the season. So it was an
un-familiar back 3. Skipper Billy Holmes was missing having failed to recover
from the knock picked up v Lanark. John Richardson started in midfield.
Cambuslang were under a little
bit of pressure early on when the home side forced a succession of corners but
the makeshift Lang defence held firm. Cambuslang replied with a surging run
from Daisley who knocked the ball to Paterson but he fired well over. Burgh
should have opened the scoring through Armour but he somehow failed to hit the
target from 6 yards out with only the keeper to beat. This was followed with a
drive by Hutchison that wasn't too far away. Burgh were having the better of
the play and indeed blew another chance to open their account, this time McPhee
turned Watson and crossed for Brolly but again they failed to trouble Wardlaw
in the Lang goal. The visitors had a couple of efforts through Gilhaney who saw
his drive well saved and then Daisley turned the Burgh defence and he got his
shot away but the keeper pulled off a fine finger tip save to put it over the
bar. Cambuslang thought they had opened the scoring when Gilhaney's corner was
missed by everyone and ended up in the net but the referee blew for an earlier
infringement when he adjudged Gauley had hampered the keeper. Lang's Kavanagh
was first into the referee's notebook. With only a couple of minutes to the
interval the Cambuslang defence was breached. McLay was given time to cross and
it was met by the head of Brolly who found the back of the net.
H-T 1-0
Cambuslang were almost level
within a minute of the restart. Heaton headed back to his own keeper but put
too much on it as the keeper scrambled back to just tip it over the bar. A
minute later and the Burgh keeper was called into action again, this time he
tipped Gilhaney's effort over the bar. The best chance for the visitors fell to
Stuart Gauley, but he wasted it by striking the ball straight at the keeper
from 5 yards out when he should have scored. Despite Cambuslang exerting all
the pressure they fell further behind on 50 minutes. Watson slipped allowing
Brolly to cross to the back post where Paterson was caught sleeping allowing Armour
in to knock home. Cambuslang brought on Maxwell for Gilhaney. The visitors
tried to get back into the game but were failing to test the Burgh keeper when
they found away through. Daisley and Devanney had half chances but neither
forced the keeper into a save. Johnstone replaced Watson and Dunn replaced
Paterson. Cambuslang pulled a goal back with a minute too go when Maxwell's
shot took a slight deflection on it's way past the despairing dive by the
keeper but it turned out to be nothing more than a consolation as the referee
blew for time up soon after.
Line up
Burgh
Donahoe, Jutla, Brogan,
Hutchison, Heaton, Armour, Frame, McGuiness, McPhee, Brolly & McLay
Subs from Hendren, Fraiter,
Donnelly, Lindsay, McKintyre
Lang
Wardlaw, Mitchell, Doak, Kavanagh,
Watson (Johnston 65), Richardson, Paterson (Dunn 73), Devanney, Daisley, Gauley
& Gilhaney ( Maxwell 60)
Subs not used McDougall &
Coulter.