Saturday 29 September 2018
Penicuik Park, Penicuik
East of Scotland Conference A Fixture #4
Penicuik Athletic
Starting XI | Cordery, Forbes, Baptie, Young, Hamilton, Connolly (c) (MacDonald 51), McCrory-Irving, Jones (Sproule 51), Kateleza, McIntosh, Ponton (Sampson 66)
Unused subs | Hume, Somerville, Caddow
Sent off | None
Leith Athletic
Starting XI | McGinley, Pennel, Robertson, Mein, Garvey, Paton, Barclay, Larner, Anderson, Ross, Swanson
Subs | MacKenzie, McLellan, Hay, Brisbane, Aitchison
Goalscorer | None
Sent off | None
East of Scotland 2015-16 Champions LeithAthletic were visitors to Penicuik Park in a 2nd v 3rd top of the table clash in Conference A. On a chilly autumn day, the home side settled down after the early opening exchanges and provided the healthy crowd with an entertaining afternoon’s football taking their goals scored to 30 in their last four outings!The hosts had a penalty claim after ten minutes when Ponton went down in a tackle as he was about to shoot but referee Mclean waved the claims away. On the 15-minute mark Forbes found the back of the net but the assistants’ flag was raised against Kateleza, and the opener was only delayed by a couple of minutes as the unmarked McINTOSH headed home from Baptie’s corner from the left. Three minutes later. Ponton found Kateleza wide on the right and his first time cross was volleyed home by MCINTOSH, past the helpless McGinley to score his second. The third arrived on the half hour as a McCrory-Irving pass found JONES on the penalty spot and he spun and stretched away from the defender to slot past McGinley. The home side were dominating with the visitors struggling to make any headway into opposition territory as Penicuik pressed at every chance. With three minutes to go until half time Jones disposessed Mein in the centre circle, fed Kateleza who found McIntosh wide right and his cross was met by the onrushing JONES who slotted home from six yards to get his second. On the brink of half time McIntosh was fouled in the box and KATELEZA stepped up to send McGinley the wrong way to make it five to the home side.
HALFTIME | Penicuik Athletic 5-0 Leith Athletic
Leith came out for the second half determined to stop the onslaught from the home side and had an early chance as Cordery was forced to parry a free kick from 22 yards out. An early double substitution saw the central midfield pair of Jones and Connolly replaced by Sproule and MacDonald and the home side extended their lead after 56 minutes from a Baptie corner which saw Hamilton’s header cleared off the line but only as far as McINTOSH who headed over a congested goal line to claim his second hat trick of the season. Ten minutes later Sampson replaced Ponton and despite dominating possession and territory they were kept at bay until the 84th minute when McINTOSH was set up by Sproule who won possession 25 yards out, surged into the box and fed the striker who tapped home from inside the six yard box. Just into injury time and the scoring was completed as McCRORY-IRVING when he was set up by Kateleza and McIntosh and fired home an exquisite curling finish from 18 yards out.
FULLTIME | Penicuik Athletic 8-0 Leith Athletic