NL: Torquay United v Aldershot 5:20pm 24 August 2019

link - Liam was back a week earlier than scheduled last Saturday and probably worked out well for him in that he has no mid week game before Saturday’s match.

Videos Rob?

link - Devon Live reporting that Johnson is confident that we can cope without Hall in midfield.

If anybody is able to copy the programme to DVD, I would be very grateful!

It was a good day today where we were comfortably the better side and fully deserved the two goal win and Andrews was very unlucky not to get a third when his shot was blocked by a great header from their defender off the line with the keeper beat and their team completely at sixes and sevens during this sequence of play that should have seen us score.

Having said that I don’t think Aldershot were a bad side as it took a wonder strike from Reidy and a deflection to feed the ball directly to Opi to get the goals. What the visitors did lack though was enough goal threat up front.

The Asa hole was filled by Andrews today who put in a solid performance in his more favoured position. Connor, actually played as a second striker putting in a strong performance and showing his quality and could have had a goal early on with his shot going just wide. Our defence was a lot better with Davis now completing the set and Cameron being his usual majestic self with both my son and a friend that I briefly spoke to afterwards having him down as their MOTM.

Edwards was man of the match particular for his second-half performance and gave Aldershot an absolute torrid time using his pace to good effect not just in attack but also to track back. He was however, nobbled from a late challenge just 24 seconds into the game earning their player a very early yellow card.

Despite being the better side in the first half it took us until injury time to go in front with a pass to Reidy very well controlled enabling him to go turn the defender and fire the ball just inside the far post and worth watching on the link above if for some reason you haven’t yet! After the Maidenhead game it was a bit of a relief for our dominance to have paid off as we all know what can happen when it doesn’t!

Once we had that second goal Aldershot never looked like getting back into the match and so it proved. I think our substitutions were brought on just to give some of our players a bit of respite before the Barnet game in a couple of days. Vincent looked very energetic and Duku for the short time he was on the pitch certainly offered something. A very happy Plainmoor today with all eyes now looking up the table.

What a cracking turn and shot by Reid! 

If Lineker had done that, some people would think he was some sort of a God!

Best bit being, as the goal is scored, the two turned defenders look at each other with a gesture of...how the f**k did that happen?