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Final Score: Bognor 2 Albion 4

Posted on: Sat 19 Jul 2008

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By Paul Camillin


19:45: The game is under way with Micky Adams includes trialists Ash Robinson and Nicky Nicolau. Scott Chamberlain is absent due to a knock picked up in training today.

Former Albion stalwart Paul Watson lines up for Bognor, Dan Beck starts up front, while former Albion youth teamers Paul Hinshelwood and Ruben French are on the bench.

19:56: GOAL! Just as he did at Worthing, Kevin McLeod opens the scoring with a fierce left-footed shot into the top left corner of the net, after neat approach play from Nicky Forster. The former Everton man's drive gives home keeper Aaron Howe no chance!

20:06: GOAL! Former Fulham and Wimbledon defender Duncan Jupp heads home from a corner to level the scores at 1-1. It's the first goal Albion have conceded in pre-season. Moments later John Sullivan denies Alex Fisher with a smart save.

20:08: From the resulting corner referee Danny Austin awards a penalty for pushing in the box - but Sullivan makes a brilliant save low to his left to deny former Albion youth team player Beck.

20:17: McLeod - now on the right, having switched with Dean Cox - plays an impressive cross-field ball to pick out Forster, but the Albion striker under pressure from Bognor skipper Jupp fires over.

20:22: GOAL! Tommy Elphick heads home from close range. McLeod is the creator, his cross from the right wing is headed back across goal by Jonny Dixon and Elphick nods past Howe.

20:30: Half-time. Bognor Regis Town 1 Albion 2.

20:45: The second half is underway and trialists Nicolau and Robinson have been replaced by first-year pros Andy Pearson and Kane Wills.

20:50: GOAL! Guess who? Yes, McLeod again. This time a free-kick curled in left footed from the right wing. Perhaps more of a cross that a shot, it evades everyone including Bognor keeper Howe!

20:59: An audacious attempt from McLeod from inside his own half. Spotting Howe off his line, he sets the Bognor keeper back peddling with an attempt which goes narrowly over. A few minutes later Sam Gargan comes on for Jonny Dixon.

21:09: GOAL! Cox makes it 4-1, after a one-two with Gargan. The diminutive winger slides the ball past Howe from close range.

21:11: More good wing play from McLeod almost creates an opportunity for striker Gargan, but his headed attempt is blocked at the expense of a corner.

21:12: Watson departs, replaced by Sam Pearce, along with home skipper Jupp, who is replaced by former Albion scholar French.

21:29: GOAL! A super left-footed strike from Fisher - some 25 yards out - leaves Sullivan grasping air and makes the score 4-2.

21:32: Full time. Bognor Regis Town 2 Albion 4. Another good pre-season display from Albion and thanks to Jack Pearce and Bognor Regis Town, as always excellent hosts.

Albion: (4-4-2) Sullivan, Whing, Elphick, Lynch, Nicolau (Pearson 45); Cox, A Robinson (Wills 45), Livermore, McLeod; Forster, Dixon (Gargan 60). Subs: Royce, Louis, Walker (GK).

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