{"id":6296,"date":"2022-01-22T17:41:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T17:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/2022\/01\/22\/stockport-warriors-score-late-winner-incredible-comeback-against-village-fc\/"},"modified":"2022-01-22T17:41:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T17:41:09","slug":"stockport-warriors-score-late-winner-incredible-comeback-against-village-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/stockport-warriors-score-late-winner-incredible-comeback-against-village-fc\/","title":{"rendered":"Stockport Warriors score late winner in incredible comeback against Village FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

An 85th minute winner from Azeez Ibisomi broke Village FC<\/a> hearts as Stockport seconds went on to win 2-1 in a tightly contested league game.<\/p>\n

Village FC seconds, who went into the match as favourites, looked set to hold out for a point and retain their three place gap between them and their opponents.<\/p>\n

However, late drama saw the Stockport striker score a day before his 42nd birthday.<\/p>\n

The two sides both compete in the fourth tier of the Lancashire and Cheshire amateur football league<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Image: Gordon S Marino<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1st Half<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

A quick start from both saw Stockport control most of the play while Village FC successfully pressed, winning the ball in good positions.<\/p>\n

Stockport Warriors<\/a> didn’t take long to show their aggressive play style, physically challenging Village FC up and down the pitch.<\/p>\n

However, the boys in yellow held their own and produced the first goal of the game in the 25th minute.<\/p>\n

A mistake by the Stockport keeper allowed Village to loop the ball over to striker, Ryan Haywood, who showed brilliant composer to place the ball into an empty net.<\/p>\n

From this point, AFC Stockport began to build momentum, creating a flurry of chances before half time.<\/p>\n

However, a mixture of brave defending and confident goal keeping kept Village FC 1-0 up as the game reached the break.<\/p>\n

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Image: Gordon S Marino<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

2nd Half<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Hostility between the sides continued into the second half with both teams having their say.<\/p>\n

But if anyone looked like scoring it was Village FC. Some great link up plays just outside the box between Haywood and Hewitt gave glimpses of a second goal in the 55th minute.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, just a few moments later Stockport Warriors showed their teeth and found an equaliser.<\/p>\n

Village keeper, David Sedrick, pulled off one or two great saves but to his disappointment he couldn\u2019t keep them out.<\/p>\n

A third attempt at goal saw Stockport\u2019s number 10 place the ball into the bottom left with ease to make it 1-1.<\/p>\n

As the game reached its final stages Village FC nearly found a winner from close range as the keeper made a point blank save at his near post in the 75th minute.<\/p>\n

Though it wasn\u2019t to be as striker Azeez Ibisomi scored the winner for Stockport with just five minutes to go.<\/p>\n

A skill full turn inside the box allowed him to trickle the ball past the keeper, even with his back to goal, making it 2-1 to AFC Stockport Warriors.<\/p>\n

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Image: Gordon S Marino<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A look ahead<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

The loss for Village FC grants eighth place Staly Lions<\/a> a chance to close the gap and makes an exciting spectacle for their game against each other on Saturday (29 Jan).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, three points for Stockport Warriors could see them temporarily climb out of tenth place.<\/p>\n

They take on Urmston Town<\/a> next week in the league.<\/p>\n