Heath leave the Common with all three points
The Heath continued their hot form with a win on the road against Little Common FC. Naim Rouane’s chosen eleven featured Cameron Dobell who returned from injury, he wore the number 9 in the absence of Ben Connolly.
The blues showed their quality in the opening stages, with Skerry and Cadman both forcing important stops from Matt Cruttwell in the Commoner’s goal. The chances kept coming, and it was all Heath in the first half, Lewis Finney found the end of a Darius Goldsmith cross to the back post, and the midfielder lunged to guide the ball towards goal but his effort could only find the outside of the post.
Cameron Dobell found himself 1 on 1 with Cruttwell, latching onto a fantastic lofted pass from Hayden Skerry, working with an awkward angle he took on the shot, failing to wrap his foot around the ball enough it was another big chance gone begging. The half ended goalless, with Mitch Bromage untested, and the Blues unable to convert one of their numerous opportunities
The Heath’s fortunes changed in the second half, Hayden Skerry’s marauding run allowed the winger to pull a dangerous ball along the floor and past the face of goal, helped on by the flick of Dobell’s heel and onto the left foot of Emmanuel Abudiore who hit it on his first touch, bending the shot past the goalkeeper and into the bottom corner.
Little Common remained penned in, with Heath’s intensity and pressing proving too much for the hosts, as Geard and Benson replaced Dobell and Abudiore. The Blues wanted a second goal, but Common held their ground and kept the Heath to just one goal. Little Common had a brief spell attack in the dying moments of the game, as Dan Cadman accepted a yellow card for a foul on the halfway line to prevent a late counterattack, the delivery lacked threat and proved an easy claim for Bromage who kept his 5th consecutive clean sheet.
