We completly dominated this game straight from the kick-off. After the game some of our die hard supporters exlaimed; “this performance was the best we have seen all season“.
Started the game playing up the hill against a strong wind. Played some nice football and took a 2-nil lead into half time.
Second half continued in the same vain with some pretty effective football. We scored another two in this half to leave Treaton Park 4-0 winners.
Cheers…
Our roving reporter is taking a well earned break this weekend so you will just have to do with this rather sparse report.
Vale started the game in good spirits and quickly created sun very good chances that were spurrned. The first goal came early in the half when some great individual work by Westwood played in Connolly down the right wing who then crossed the ball to Coull who on his second attempt fired the ball low under the goalie. Vale played well for the remainder of the half untill some indesisive goalkeeping by Gardner caused confusion which lead to the striker having the ball laid on a plate with an open goal. Just before the half time whistle Eastvale were awarded a penalty as the ref deemed the goalkeeper to have fouled Connolly inside the box. Andy Kirk dispatched the penalty with some conviction.
Half Time 2-1
Second half continued in the same vain with Eastvale creating great chance after great chance being unable to convert. My apologies for the third goal as i have forgot how it was scored but we scored the third and it was brilliant. The game was wrapped up midway through the half when Beau found some space outside the box, he decided to hit a shot which took a fortunate bounce over the keeper (who had it covered) into the top corner.
Eastvale continued to play the game out in the same manner creating lots of chances but the game ended 4-1.
Full Time 4-1
Eastvale: Gardner, Scone, Haley, Kennedy, Westwood, Connolly, Armitt, Douglas (McLeish), Beaumont, Millar (Coull), Kirk (Kerr).
Hopefully our reporter will be back for Tuesday’s game against Star Hearts.
Winter hasn’t left us yet and with the wind blowing it was not a night for the faint hearted on and off the field. Eastvale made one change from Saturdays visit to Inverkeithing, for this encounter with Star Hearts, Westie replaced Willie Kerr at right Back with Beau starting in midfield. An evenly matched game with neither keeper having much to do in the first half, both teams had their chances but the finishing boots were left in the hoose.
Half Time: Star Hearts 0 Eastvale 0
Shooting down the hill in the second half, Vale started to create and find the spaces lacking in the first, Kenny and Eck were starting to bother the defence. A free kick from Ryan was met sweetly by callum, but a fantastic save from the Star keeper kept the scores level. Handbags were the order of the day shortly afterwards when the Star No9 was shown a straight red for a tackle on Jamie Armit. Vale picked themselves and went for it, a lovely ball split the defence and found callum who controlled the ball well on a bumpy surface and sidefooted it past the Star keeper. Cas was called into action late on, after a quiet game, with a fine save pushing it past the post. Star pushed and pressurised the vale defence, who stood firm and another valuable 3 points secured.
Final Score Star Hearts 0 Eastvale 1
Eastvale: Kinnear, Westwood(Kerr), Halley, Kennedy, Murrie, Connelly, Forrester, Beaumont, Armit, Miller(Kirk) Douglas(Coull).
Subs not used: Marsh
NB. Over the course of the last few weeks John Westwood has been wrongly called Westwater. Apologises to John with the matter now corrected. Cmon the Vale.
On a blustery day on the banks o the forth, Eastvale made a few changes from Thursdays excellent cup win over the Shipyard. Cas taking over between the sticks ,No Barry Winn or Tucker which saw Brett and Ryan in the middle of defence with John Westwater starting in midfield.
In a very scrappy affair Eastvale took the game to the Swifts and took the lead 20 minutes in, when after another corner from Ryan was fired into the back post, the Swifts failed to clear their lines and the ball fell to Bud to tap home fae 4 yards.
Eastvale increased the lead before the end of the half after a lovely ball from midfield found Kenny charging thro the swifts defence and a lovely finish past the on rushing keeper put Vale two up.
Half Time Inverkeithing 0 Eastvale 2
As has been common place this season, Eastvale lost a goal just after the break, the vale defence where unable to clear a nothing corner and “Crouchie” the big No.9 tapped home to pull one back for the Swifts. Vale made changes with Beau replacing Bud and Danny on for Kenny upfront, Beau made the difference holding the ball in midfield and creating chances.
Beau put Eck thro who on his 3rd attempt put Vale 3-1 up, 2 fine stops from the Swifts keeper. Vale had a few more chances but were unable to find the back of the net.
Another win in the bag was the main concern with 3 valuable points.
Final Score:- Inverkeithing 1 Eastvale 3
Eastvale: Kinnear, Kerr, Halley, Kennedy, Murrie, Connelly, Westwater, Forrester(Beaumont), Armit, Miller, Douglas(Coull).
Subs not used: Kirk, McLeish, Gardner, Mitchell
Eastvale hosted Burntisland Shipyard on a glorious Thursday evening for the first round of the Fence and Deck Cup. The management had the unusual, but welcomed problem of too many players being available and had the difficulty of leaving out Young Mitchell and Stuart McLiesh from the squad with the likes of Jamie allan and Andy Kirk only making the bench.
The game kicked off a little later than scheduled due to some stragglers from both ranks which is to be expected during this midweek stage of the campaign. From the kick-off it was Burntisland that had a few early chances with one just going over the bar. After this flurry of attack Eastvale settled down and started to apply their own pressure which caused some major cracks in the shipyards defence. Eastvale were awarded corner after corner and it was only time until someone would finish one of the great balls into the box. Connolly dispatched a great cross from Kennedy with an even better header into the bottom corner to put the vale one up. Another move soon after saw Eck Douglas beat the offside trap and sprinted through on goal with only the goalkeeper to beat. Eck struck the ball low and the keeper seemed to make a good save but douglas sprinted on to tap in the rebound. Burntisland were dealt another blow when their influential ‘Cook’ had to be subbed with an injury. However, this bad news seemed to spur the Shipyard back into life and managed to get back into the game after some very dodgy goalkeeping from Gardner allowed big Myles Allan to header from no more than five yards out pulling the deficit back to one. On the stroke of half-time Eastvale extended their lead with a poachers goal from Forrester. Ryan Kennedy hit a solid free-kick from about twenty-five yards out – down to the keepers right but he was unable to hold onto it, Forrester latched onto the rebound to make it 3-1 at half time.
Eastvale started the second half brightly with Miller going agonisingly close after a long ball beat the defence finding Miller one on one with the goalie sliding it past both goalkeeper and post. Not long after though Vale extended their lead again with some good play down the left wing, Eck douglas squaring a ball to Calum Connolly for his second of the night. With about 15 minutes to go the home side wrapped things up with more fine play down the left, a good front post cross was met by Millers head to score his first for the club.
Final Score: Eastvale 5-1 Burntisland Shipyard.
Eastvale: Gardner; Kerr; Murrie (Westwood); Kennedy; Winn; Thomson (Allan); Connolly; Forrester; Miller (Kirk); Armit; Douglas.
Subs not used: Laing; Coull
What a difference a few days make, Vale came out the traps with a more determined attitude and fought for every blade of grass on this excellent evening for a game of fitbaw. The only change to the starting 11 from Saturday was Westie brought in for the injured Douglas. Danny Coull started up-front with Kenny Millar. Vale continued the habit of starting the game well with some great movement and slick passing on a difficult surface. Jamie Armitt who was unmarked at the back post to dispatch the cross-field pass converted an early chance for Vale. Vale pummelled the Scotia defence with corner after corner it was only a matter of time before Vale increased their lead. With 7 mins to the end of the first half another cross ball from Ryan Kennedy was met, after some ricochets by the Scotia defence again by Jamie Armitt whose parabola header over the keeper put vale in a comfortable position before the end of the half.
The second half continued in the same vain with Vale pushing Scotia into their own half. An early chance was created after some brilliant interplay between Callum and Danny brought a fine save from the Scotia keeper. Scotia had some chances but Gardner between the Vale sticks and the Defence had a very comfortable evening.
With 15mins to go Kerion and the long awaited return of Baz Winn were introduced to shore up the defence. The pair helped take a welcomed 3pts from a well-organized and determined Balgonie Scotia.
Final Score Balgonie Scotia 0-2 Eastvale
Vale: Gardner, Kerr, Kennedy, Scone (Winn), Westwater (Marsh), Forrester, Armitt, Connelly, Coull(Allan), Miller .
On a beautiful calm day, Eastvale were hopeful of making up for the result against Kettle last Thursday. Wholesale changes due to players with other commitments, young Danny got his first start and rewarded the decision with the opener 10 mins into the game, some great play from Callum whose cut back found danny and from 4 yards he placed it past the keeper. Vale looked great and full of confidence until a foul on the Vale keeper which was deemed ok by the ref, brought the scores level. This seemed to knock the stuffing out of vale. The half finished even with the home team coming more into game.
The second half carried on the same and when the home team were awarded a very soft free kick, it was rocketed past the vale wall into the top corner. The home side pulled further ahead with a cross ball which wasn’t cleared by the Vale defence and was duely put away, 3-1. Vale pulled one back from Callum, but another goal from the home team finished the game off at 4-2.
Both teams where reduced to 10 men for two bookable offences.
Final Score: Lumphinnans4 Eastvale 2
Eastvale: Gardner, Douglas (Marsh), Scone, Kennedy, Halley, Armitt, Connelly, Kerr, Forrester, Miller, Coull . Subs not used: Mitchell, Wardlaw, Cas.
We started this game well with good fast movement down the right wing, where a great cross from Andy Kirk was met by Kenny Miller who flicked it onto Bud Forrester at the back post. The Vale’s lead was short lived however when they found themselves behind after two sloppy defended goals.
Second half and it was kettle again who took the initiative with some great positive moves and some well finished goals. The first was a cut back that was finished well. The second of the half and fourth of the game was a long ball over the defence where the striker hit it early into the top corner to seal the game 4-1. Kettle missed a penalty late on but it wasn’t to prove vital.
Eastvale: Gardner, Scone, Tucker, Kerr, McLiesh (Kennedy), Connolly, Forrester, Douglas (Beaumont), Westwater, Millar, Kirk (Coull)
