Late Kinsey goal gives Argyle deserved away point at Exmouth

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Carlsberg South West Peninsula division one East
Exmouth Town 2
Okehampton Argyle 2
ARGYLE ended a run of three successive defeats with a deserved point at Exmouth Town, one of the current in-form sides in the league —a team who included the division’s leading scorer and a player on loan from Exeter City.
Okehampton were able to call on the services of former regular keeper Dan Malcolm who now lives in Bristol, and he certainly gave confidence to the back line with a superlative display. James Williams returned to the Argyle midfield and added some real bite in this area as well as doing a good job as captain for the day.
Okehampton had the better of an even first half and the midfield competed for everything while the defence made the much-vaunted Exmouth forward line look very ordinary.
The deadlock was broken on 38 minutes when a long ball out of defence was beautifully flicked on by Steve Kinsey to set Steve Williams racing clear. The forward was tackled on the edge of the box by the Exmouth keeper and the central defender, but somehow he managed to toe-poke the ball over the line to give Argyle a deserved half-time lead.
Exmouth, in the second half, pushed the Argyle midfield into a defensive formation. After 68 minutes, Exmouth levelled the game when a right wing cross was fired home by Andrew Jones, and five minutes later the home side worked a good move across the Argyle box for James Berry to fire home.
To their credit Argyle kept pushing for an equaliser and manager Stuart Cann made some attacking substitutions.
Veteran George Pitts who had had an outstanding game in midfield was replaced by Matt Sanders, and Chris Hollands who also had played well was replaced by Jonjo Fellows who added pace and feistyness wide up front.
In the last five minutes, Cann took off midfielder Stuart Entwhistle and put himself on up front which certainly unsettled the Exmouth defence deep into injury time the home defence panicked in their own box and brought down Steve Kinsey.
Kinsey got up to crash home the resulting penalty to give Argyle a share of the spoils in a game they could easily have won.
• This Saturday’s games are rearranged from those already advertised due to postponements of Devon County Premier and Senior Cup matches.
Carlsberg South West Peninsula League: Oke Argyle firsts v Galmpton away 2.15pm; Devon and Exeter division four Argyle seconds v Tedburn St Mary, away 2.15pm; Devon and Exeter Div seven: Argyle thirds v Priory home 2.15pm.