MATCH DETAILS
Goole AFC 0-2 Silsden AFC
NCEL Premier Division
Tuesday 25th February 2025
Victoria Pleasure Ground
TEAM DETAILS
Hall, Cromack, Clark, Daly, Coates, Cassidy, Brooksbank (Hunt, 90′), Maltby, Fox (Greaves, 89′), Thewlis (Conteh, 84′), Stewart
Subs: Kilner, Price
MATCH REPORT
Silsden returned to winning ways with a 2-0 truimph over NCEL Prem strugglers Goole at the Victoria Pleasure Ground yesterday evening.
Two first half goals settled the tie with Robbie Fox opening his Sils account from the spot on six minutes before a header from Casey Stewart extended his goal tally to 23 for the season.
The game saw the return of Harry Coates and Jake Cassidy at centre half, with the formidable pairing helping us to our 13th clean sheet this campaign.
In stark contrast to Saturday, we got off to an almost perfect start as Luke Brooksbank’s driving run saw a clumsy challenge bring him down in the box.
Fox, deployed as the striker in the absence of Kayle Price stepped up and lashed his spot-kick high into the corner of the net.
On 13 minutes things got even better, the skipper Ross Daly carrying the ball forward before delivering a pinpoint cross for Stewart to nod home. A headed goal being a rare occurrence according to the man himself!
We kept the pressure on as the half continued, Stewart smashing a 25-yard freekick into the wall before Jake Maltby drilled the follow up wide of the target.
Our hosts were struggling to break us down, a freekick from some distance that was easily held by Edd Hall would be the closest they came in what turned out to be a comfortable opening half for Sils.
Into the second 45 and set-pieces were looking the most likely way for us to find a third, Brooky shooting over and seeing an effort well blocked respectively after both a freekick and throw-in fell to his feet inside the area.
With the game reaching its end, the hosts gave one last push in an effort to salvage something but Daly and Cam Clark both made strong blocks inside the area to deny them that opportunity.
In the end it was a good win for Sils who put an end to a recent dip in form, regaining some confidence heading into a huge game on Saturday.
It’s 1st vs 3rd as we head to Hallam for what could prove to be the biggest game of our season!
All travelling support would be a huge boost to the players, UP THE SILS!
