FC United of Manchester

Match Report

2nd October 2007

The UniBond League - 1st Division North

West Lancashire College Stadium, Selby Place, Skelmersdale, Lancs, WN8 8EF

Skelmersdale United	3 - 1	FC United of Manchester
A Evans 5, 58, 90		Patterson 17
Attendance: 617

Skelmersdale United 3

A Evans 5, 58, 90

FC United of Manchester 1

Patterson 17

Attendance: 617

Skelmersdale United

1 R McMahon
2 M Duffy
3 S Foster
4 S Akrigg
5 M White (Capt.)
6 P Holland
7 A Birchall
8 A Turner
9 A Evans
10 G Donnelly
11 D Eaton

Subs.
12 C Noone (for 7, 46 mins)
14 S McConville
15 T Hardwick (for 7, 71 mins)

FC United of Manchester

1 Sam Ashton
2 Mathew Taylor
3 Shaun Roscoe
4 Nick Platt
5 David Chadwick (capt)
6 Dave Brown
7 Adam Carden
8 Chris Baguley
9 Stuart Rudd
10 Jerome Wright
11 Rory Patterson

Subs.
12 Simon Carden (for 4, 65 mins)
14 Liam George (for 6, 77 mins)
15 Liam Foster (for 2, 60 mins)

United suffer Skelmersdale defeat

A long range strike from Rory Patterson proved not to be enough for FC United as the Reds slumped to a 3-1 defeat at Skelmersdale on Tuesday night. The hosts’ striker Tony Evans stole the show with a hat-trick, inflicting FC United’s third defeat of the UniBond Division One North campaign.

The former Marines and Prescott Cables forward broke the deadlock within the first five minutes and Patterson, the league’s top scorer, struck back with his 10th goal of the season 13 minutes later.

But a poor second half performance allowed the West Lancashire club to take the lead again three minutes before the hour mark and with United reverting to three at the back in a bid to chase the game, Evans caught the visitors on the break to complete his hat-trick in injury time.