St Albans City vs Maidenhead 15th December

[Saint]

Starting XI: Welch, Nunn, Bender, Corcoran, Martin, Oshodi, Chappell, Green, Theophanous, Meade, Gibson

Subs: Krans, Thomas, Edwards, Locke, Sow.

No Comley or Crawford in the squad. (Suspensions)

[Saint]

Saints 1-0 up, Meade.

Goal came after 66 seconds.

[Saint]

1-1

[Saint]

Saints 2-1, Martin

[Saint]

2-2, saints also miss a good chance, it's all happen it seems.

[Hatboy]

All headers aren't they

[Saint]

Saints 3-2! Edwards!

[Saint]

90th minute.

[Saint]

FT: Saints 3-2!

[panionios]

Amazing result and out of the bottom three after such a long time!

[Saint]

Well done to all tonight! Didn't expect a point, let alone all three!

[stanj]

A good gate tonight over 600

[asaintreborn]

Was it not 287?

[asaintreborn]

Great win! Much better going forward some good patterns of play. All done without coms!

[Boomer]

A blinding result, which takes us up to 19th and a superb individual goal from Jonathan Edwards in 90th minute to get the win.

[casper]

www.hertsad.co.uk/sport/st-albans-city/jonathan_edwards_strikes_gold_for_st_albans_in_huge_win_over_maidenhead_1_4349755

[dunstablesaint]

What a great -and deserved- result. Thought we dominated them when we played the ball on the ground,even though it was a difficult wet pitch. Great to see our forwards looking a threat. Theo worked hard and deserved a goal. Meade's speed and footwork caused problems all evening, and Edwards' directness and energy terrorised the Maidenhead defence. What a handful he is on that sort of form - and what a goal at the death! Come on you Saints.

[davymac55]

90 mins plus and saints score a winner as we hung on in added time Yet could have made it 4.
made had a great game and no surprise there were a few scouts at game from Norwich and Cambridge to name a couple. And is he on contract? Course not!
Anyway. Great result against top half team. And we matched them all over the park. Mind you their defence was as dodgy as ours and at 2-2 I thought my predicted score had a chance. Fast paced and entertaining throughout but we deserved to get a result as for once we played to the final whistle and got the result which is what it's all about. Out of drop zone and massive game Saturday. 3 wins on the bounce and scoring goals.

[davymac55]

It's Meade. Predictive text.

[Boomer]

A couple of posts on the Basingstoke Town forum tonight -


Tonight's Vanarama South result does us no favours as St Albans 3 - 2 Maidenhead now puts us 7 points away from the relegation zone and puts even more pressure on us to win on Saturday !!


Martin - Saints` win tonight makes Saturday absolutely crucial. We cannot afford to slip any further adrift - three points a must. The players are good enough, without a doubt. They have to find a way to win and I think they will.


We will see about that!

[Canary Saint]

Would be really great if this run was to continue. (Stating the obvious I know)

[midweeksaint]

I ventured down to CP for only the second time this season (and despite the weather), to be pleasantly surprised. In the first half Saints more than matched a physical Maidenhead side, and rode their luck when the ref missed the most blatant handball I have ever seen in the box. Always looked threatening from set plays and just before Maidenhead equalised the second time Meade missed a sitter for 3-1 (or rather, forced a save from the keeper). In the second Saints passed the ball around well and created a number of chances. Meade again forced a great save from their keeper with a long range effort and Ben Martin headed straight at the keeper when he should really have scored from another corner. Maidenhead also missed a couple of decent efforts. The winner was well deserved, a great shot coming in off the left wing. Overall this was an entertaining match (far better than much of the rubbish I have endured in the Championship this season) played in difficult conditions. There certainly wasn't 14 league places between these teams and IF Saints can keep this form and team together then there should be no worries about relegation this season.

[St Michael]

Very encouraging, and I had a feeling we might win this game, but it won't amount to much if we lose at Basingstoke.

[oldtimer]

Very impressed with Edwards - he looked dangerous every time he had the ball and on this showing he should be in the starting line up on Saturday.

[stanj]

I saw the crowd in the National results it said 613.Sorry they are obviously wrong

[Boomer]

A lot of very good performances out there, last night, including a very competent debut from Eddie Oshodi.

[Saint]

www.hertsad.co.uk/sport/st-albans-city/praise_for_st_albans_goalscorers_after_important_win_over_maidenhead_1_4350126

St Albans City’s caretaker manager, Harry Wheeler, reserved praise for the three goalscorers who helped them to an “important” win.

The 3-2 success over Maidenhead United on Tuesday night helped moved City out of the relegation zone and Wheeler stressed how big a result it could be.

He said: “That one, the second league game, was the tester and we go into Saturday in really high spirits.

“We knew at half-time just to keep the lads calm, keep them focussed, don’t get into it with the other players, don’t get involved with any situation that doesn’t go your way.

“When these lads are on the game, as they were in the second-half, teams struggle to get the ball of them. And we were relentless at getting it back as well.”

Jernade Meade scored a rare headed goal as did Ben Martin

Wheeler said: “Jernade won’t get too many like that but I thought he and Ben were excellent. I thought Ben was solid and Jernade was bright and gave their centre halves a tough time.

“They didn’t know if he was going to go in-behind or drop-off. That was why we looked at him there because he will give us that variety.”

But he reserved special praise for on-loan Peterborough striker, Jonathan Edwards, whose 90th minute strike snatched all three points.

He said: “I feared the worse when he came off last week [against Margate] because I saw something in him at Oxhey that showed me he could add something to us.

“He can go in-behind, he can hold the ball up and as you can see, he can come in from either side.

“I looked around the bench and you could see he was desperate to come on. When I looked away again he always looked disappointed. So I wanted that attitude and he went and won us the game.

“Inevitably you will get judged as a striker in the final third. People will ask how many goals he scores. And if you’re not scoring enough goals, you’re not a good forward.

“So he’s doing his job. In three games he’s got three goals.

“Someone who’s got that desire to score goals, like we have with Theo, Harry and Jernade, we will score goals from now on.”

Obviously it's easy for Harry to be positive after a win, but it's so refreshing to hear our manager openly praise both individual players, and also the group, something which we haven't had much of this season...

[notsorecentconvert]

What a great result. I was unable to make the game but was following in real-time on Twitter and practically jumped out of my seat when news of the last-minute winner came through.

This is just the kind of result that can kick-start the recovery. A match heading for a draw turned into three precious points. All of sudden we're out of the bottom three and looking upwards for the first time in months.

Fascinating to see such a turn-around so quickly following the departure of Gray and Golds. Okay, so the Oxhey Jets victory is not perhaps the biggest indicator but six league points after three really poor defeats is a dramatic transformation.

It makes me wonder what went on. Had Gray and Golds – to use that old cliché – lost the dressing room? Were the players pulling their punches until they got their FA Cup money? Or is Harry Wheeler Jose Mourinho in disguise? (Okay, perhaps not the best analogy today...)

[PaperSaint]

Video highlights and post match interview with Harry now available:
www.stalbanscityfc.com/event/st-albans-city-v-maidenhead-utd-15122015/

[Hatboy]

Massive win certainly looks like Harry has got the respect of the players still