Banstead Athletic 2-2 Molesey (Banstead win 4-1 on penalties)
Molesey's pre-season preparation continued this weekend when The Moles traveled to Banstead Athletic for the final of the Dave Wilson Trophy.
It was to be a challenging game with a trophy up for grabs and the temperature soaring. Molesey kicked off the encounter a little later than was scheduled, but Banstead were the first team out of the blocks as they looked to unsettle Molesey early on.
Banstead almost made their dominant start count by scoring as early as the 6th minute, however the cross from Roberts only skimmed off Aaron Hays foot and went out for a Molesey throw-in.
However this miss seemed to wake The Moles up and they stepped up a gear in search of a breakthrough, and they got it in the 17th minute.
The lively Sam Lampard slipped a ball back from the Banstead area allowing the young Doug Ford to deliver a telling cross which the impressive Luke Edgehill span on and hit into the far corner.
Excellent reward for a well built up attack. The rest of the first half was a 50-50 affair with both sides looking like adding to the scoring, Windergaard was forced to make one or two good saves to keep the lead as the game headed into half time.
The second half started similarly to the first, with Banstead trying to unsettle the young Moles back line. Molesey, however, quickly shrugged off this pressure and once again went on the attack with Mepham just missing a telling Myers cross.
This was followed in the 55th minute when Chris Wales cleverly made space for himself and chipped just over the bar. The game became more fractured at this point however as the substitutions started, goal scorer Luke Edghill and Freddie Myers making way for Jason Haniff and Mark Longley.
Just a minute later James Mepham forced the Banstead keeper to pull off an outstanding reaction save as Molesey continued to pressure without getting the vital second goal. Two more substitutions for the Moles when Sam Lampard and Stefan O'Brien made way for Ben Beswick and Paul Cross.
However these subs appeared to break the Moles rhythm allowing an equalizer scored in the 79th minute by Craig Duffel. Neither team looked like settling for this though and there were, extraordinarily, two more goals scored in the 90th minute.
Mark Longley must have thought he had won the match for Molesey when he found himself one-on-one with the keeper, and slotted it coolly past him. However not even a minute later Banstead's Russell Townsend hit an unstoppable 30 yard screamer straight past the helpless Windergaard.
This meant penalties for the young Moles, but with Molesey's Mark Longley and Matt Ottley missing their kicks, meant that the trophy was heading to the jubilant Banstead Athletic team.
TEAM: Windegaard, Ford(Jacob, 70), Jarvis, Malone, Ottley, Wales, Lampard (Cross, 75), O'Brien(Beswick, 75), Mepham, Edghill (Haniff, 62), Myers(Longley, 62).
