Kartiers FC Res. 2-1 Huntington Res.
 
Kartiers FC climbed out of the bottom two in Reserve Section A thanks to only their second league win of the season but quite extraordinary against a team who had defeated them 0-8 in a league game back in November. Since those dark days Kartiers second string have seen a dramatic upturn in fortunes since the appointment of Carl Marran as Reserve team manager.
 
However, this could easily have been another bad day at the office when chance after chance went begging. Kartiers started this game in the same vain they have started most games since Marran has been in the hotseat with fast attacking football straight from the kick off. 
During the early exchanges the visitors knew that they were in for a hard game and should have relied on more than the half a dozen first teamers they had drafted into their second team. Kartiers never appeared  troubled in defence with Dave Hawe, Jamie Adamson and Paul Taylor superbly dealing with anything Huntington had to offer until a corner kick was whipped in and flashed straight across the home teams line with everybody rooted to the spot.
 
Kartiers responded and then pressed again looking for that decisive goal which then came following some great work by the talented youngster Ben Olsson who fed Anthony Jennings down the right. Jennings drilled the ball into the area only to see it cleared into the path of Wayne Brook who was hovering just outside the box, with Huntingtons defenders closing in on him he, as cool as you like, skipped by two desperate lunges and rifled the ball into the roof of the net.
 
The second half brought much of the same with a few chances going astray for the home team and three penalty appeals were turned away much to the amazement of the energetic workhorse Ryan Watson who was clean through on goal and pulled the trigger only to see his trailing leg took from under him. One could sense it was only a matter of time before the second goal arrived and when it came it was a near replica of the first with Neil Taylor cutting in from the right and then unleashing a thunderous shot in to the far top corner of the Huntington goal. Kartiers cruised through the final moments until the very last kick of the match saw Huntington score a breakaway goal with the ball crossed in from the left for Premier League ace marksman Chris Dyson to tuck the chance away to leave the ever impressing Ian Leonard with no chance.
 
After the game manager Carl Marran spoke exclusively to www.kartiersfc.co.uk and said ' I am highly delighted with the amount of chances we are creating but i was disappointed for the lads to concede a goal right at the death which they didn't deserve for all the hard work they had put in. I'm going to give the lads a couple of days off to recharge their batteries before the crucial game against Thorpe United'.