Sheffield FC 4-2 Steels
Stocksbridge Park Steels surrendered a 2-0 lead to Sheffield FC as they fell to a 4-2 defeat in the derby match.
The Steels looked good from the off in this game with their direct balls over the top causing problems for the Oldest Club. We saw the first glimpse of this when Jack Watson got onto one of them and tried to lob former Steel Edd Hall. He beat Hall, but the ball cracked off the top of the bar before going out.
Watson would get his goal though. He was able to get onto another ball which come aerially and this time, he’d go low. He managed to slip his finish through the legs of Hall and while it didn’t have the most power, it did find the corner and give the Steels the lead.
And soon, Stocksbridge would have a two goal lead. It was some great play by Luke Rawson and Tomas Poole that allowed the former some space on the right wing. Stocksbridge’s leading scorer looped a cross in and Alex O’Connor was able to convert at the far post to give the Steels a good lead.
Sheffield were able to grab one before the end of the first half though. Former Steel Rory Coleman whipped in a corner and Alfie Smith was able to get his head onto it and get the Oldest club back into the game before the end of the first half.
In the second half, Sheffield started off as the better side and soon had the equaliser. They took a quick corner while Stocksbridge were still disputing the decision and whipped the ball in for another former Steel, this time Luke Mangham, to head in.
And soon enough, the comeback by Sheffield was complete. Mangham was allowed to get back into the box after initially being forced out of the box and he put the ball to the far post where Connor Cutts got by his man to finish it off, giving the Oldest Club a lead they wouldn’t have expected when 2-0 down.
The game would get heated after this as Stocksbridge would chase an equaliser, with one tackle from Ross Goodwin sparking a coming together of the players, but Sheffield were able to finish the game off. They whipped a ball in and Benni Ndlovu, one of the instigators of the coming together who managed to get away with just a yellow card, heading in to finish the match off.
