We were unlucky to lose by the only goal scored 5 minutes from time. Our back four saw 3 players make their debuts, Lewis Clement, Steve Morris and Rowan Gammond and they all played well alongside Lewis Holmes. They restricted the Celtic attack to only a few chances. Up front Morgan Freeman also made his full debut.

This was a game of few chances and it looked odds on to be a draw and go to penalties but Celtic put Tom Neville on and his running with the ball caused us some problems and it was following one of his runs that Steve Cann made a save but couldn’t prevent Zac Osbourne from forcing the ball over the line. We pushed forward and Alex Gammond just failed to get a touch on a cross that should have led to an equaliser while Sean Hanbury shot over the bar with minutes remaining. During the second half we gave as good as we got and it was probably our lack of experience in the box that denied us a win. This in general was an encouraging performance against one of the bigger sides in the league.

Steve Cann  2 Lewis Clement  3 Rowan Gammond  4 Steve Morris  5 Lewis Holmes  6 Alex Gammond  7 Liam McCreesh

8 Jack Hurley  9 Noah Daley 10 Sean Hanbury 11 Morgan Freeman

Subs  12 Craig Lewis  – 14 Adam Llewellyn -15 Neil Thomas – 16 Jay Thomas -17 Morgan Gardner