South West Peninsula League Division One East

CREDITON UNITED 0 - EXETER UNIVERSITY 2

CREDITON hosted high-flying Exeter University on Tuesday, April 5 in front of a healthy Lords Meadow crowd.

Creddy switched to a three centre-half 3-5-2 formation with Steve Ebdy making his debut and partnering Richard Blake up front.

From the outset University were impressive with their high press, energy and work rate coupled with their on the ball technical skill.

Just five minutes had lapsed when a Luke Barner cross from the right-wing was guided just past the far post by the top goalscorer in the league, Ben Mogg.

However, Creddy were playing some excellent passing football of their own, with Craig Skinner bringing the ball from the back and starting controlled attacks and trying to play through Durrant and McCann in the middle to work up the pitch.

An excellent passing move resulted in Ebdy having a chance on the stretch but just guided over the top.

At the other end Uni should have taken the lead on two occasions, firstly a powerful downward header was well-saved by Waring, followed almost immediately by an identical chance which was headed wide.

However, the visitors took the lead on 30 minutes when a misplaced pass by Ben Pike inadvertently put Mogg clean through and the prolific frontman cooly delayed before stroking home into the corner.

Creddy almost drew level on 41 minutes from a corner kick, a bicycle kick from McCann just went over the top to see the half-time score 0-1.

The second half started the same with an attractive to the eye game of passing football. The visitors stretched their lead on 63 minutes, following a misjudgement from Skinner, the ball fell to Toby Yeates who fired home from 18 yards.

From here Creddy created the odd chance with Simon Durrant curling a free kick just over and Tom Jordan shooting marginally wide.

There was still time to see a Michael Broom special tackle in the closing stages but there was no change to the scoreline.

All the boys put in a great shift but special praise for Ben Pike, Simon Durrant and Lawrence Khoo, who was playing his first game in five months.

Well done also to the University who play football how it should be played in a good spirit and always trying to play out from the back.

Nathan Keast