SPURS WIN AGAIN: SPURS 4 ROTHES 1

SUN 11.03.07

ST MONANS SPURS CONTINUED THEIR WINNING RUN WITH ANOTHER CONFIDENT FOOTBALLING DISPLAY.

SPURS PRESSED THE GLENROTHES SIDE FROM THE FIRST WHISTLE, WITH SOME NEAT PASSING PLAY BUT COULD NOT QUITE FIND THE FINAL PASS INTO THE BOX. WITH THE FIRST TWENTY MINUTES GOALLESS, SPURS OPENED THE SCORING SHORTLY AFTER THE TURNAROUND, J LEITCH HOOKED A PASS TO RUTHERFORD, WHO THEN DID WELL TO MAKE SPACE FOR A SHOT WHICH THE ROTHES KEEPER PUSHED OUT, ONLY FOR THE ONRUSHING MCINTOSH TO SMASH THE REBOUND HIGH INTO THE NET.

SPURS CREATED SEVERAL MORE CHANCES WHICH THEY COULD NOT CONVERT, SPURS DID MAKE IT TWO AFTER A DICK-MARNER SHOT WAS WELL SAVED BY THE KEEPER, RUTHERFORD WAS WELL PLACED TO CONVERT THE REBOUND.

ROTHES NO 9 WAS CAUSING THE SPURS DEFENCE PROBLEMS, WITH GUTHRIE & MATTHEWS HAVING TO MAKE SEVERAL LAST DITCH TACKLES TO DENY THE POWERFUL STRIKER.

ROTHES DID HOWEVER GET BACK INTO THE GAME, WHEN THEY SQUEEZED THE BALL HOME AT THE BACK POST AFTER SOME SUSTAINED PRESSURE.

SPURS KEEPER BARCLAY KEPT UP HIS GOOD FORM WITH TWO MAGNIFICENT SAVES, THE FIRST TO DENY A ROTHES STRIKER FROM CLOSE IN, THEN A DIVING SAVE TO KEEP OUT A GOAL BOUND SHOT.

SUBSTITUTE WOOD RESTORED SPURS TWO GOAL ADVANTAGE AFTER A LONG THROUGH BALL BY GUTHRIE, WOOD DID WELL TO RUN THROUGH ON GOAL & SCORE DESPITE THE CLOSE ATTENTION OF A ROTHES DEFENDER.

WOOD THEN TIED UP THE GAME WITH HIS SECOND GOAL, AFTER MORE PRESSURE FROM SPURS, THE BALL BROKE TO WOOD & HIS POWERFUL STRIKE SQUIRMED UNDER THE ROTHES KEEPER.

MAN OF THE MATCH; WOOD RECEIVED THE REFEREES MAN OF THE MATCH FOR HIS TWO WELL TAKEN GOALS.