Step 3

Battling Boro beat Martyrs

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
25 August 2019

By Andrew McNeill
FARNBOROUGH 1
MERTHYR TOWN 0
THIS low quality game and spectacle ebbed and flowed for the first half hour.
The lack of guile, cunning and wiliness from both sides restricted attacking threats to the occasional corner or free kick.
A drinks break on 30 minutes, brought-on by the 30 degree heat, at least gave both sides time to reasess strategy.
It was Farnborough who seized the initiative and ratcheted up the pressure with a series of raking cross-field balls to Young on the right hugging the touchline.
The tactics finally paid off when one led to a corner that found an unm...

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