Game 26 Squires Gate

With both sides I watch being away today decided to take in the localish game between Squires Gate and Congleton Town in the North West Counties league.
A bright sunny day with a highly entertaining first half with four goals the post being hit twice and the bizarre case of the goal that never was.
Gate struggling this season and were next to bottom whilst their opponents were just outside teh top places in the league.
Gate kicking towards the car park end opened the scoring in the 11th minute when a lucky rebound found Harvie out side the penalty area, his Messi type of run took him past a couple of players before side footing the ball past Town’s keeper.
A frantic 20 minutes followed a you could see thne reason why Gate were struggling, they couldn’t defend.
The home side were lucky not to concede a goal, when a free kick from a Town player looked to have scored direct from a free kick, the ball appeared to be stuck in the net between the post and the bar, the home keeper pushed the ball onto the post where he was then fouled by a Town forward. The referee gave the foul most people on the ground thought it was a goal.
Down the other end Gate went and the lively Harvie hit the post, the ball rebounded to Coar who only had to slip the ball into the net to double the lead, he slipped and the chance went west.
It was a vital miss because Congleton then proceeded to score the times in six minutes, the first from the penalty spot and the other two came from crosses from either wing. Koral scored the penalty and Smith scored the other two. (1-3)
Gate were being run ragged and only the post stop the visitors scoring again. In the gathering gloom as half time approached Gate nearly got themselves back into the game when from a corner a Town defender narrowly sliced the ball over his own bar.
It started to get colder and started to rain as the second half kicked off thankfully with the floodlights on, the game lick the weather deteriorated, Congleton always looked the more likely of the two sides and hit the bar early on in the half.
Gate struggled manfully on bringing a couple of decent saves from Town’s keeper but were always looked likely to be caught on the