DYNAMO WIN
Victory over league leaders
EVOSTIK DIVISION ONE EAST. LOUGHBOROUGH DYNAMO 2
MORPETH TOWN 1 A BATTLING performance saw Loughborough Dynamo beat league leaders Morpeth Town 2-1 at the ADT stadium on Saturday.
First half goals from Josh Riley and Luke Thorogood saw Loughborough lead 2-0 at the break.
Dynamo came into the game off the back of an entertaining 3-3 draw at Cleethorpes Town and started the brighter of the two sides.
On 13 minutes, Loughborough had a big chance to open the scoring. Josh Riley dazzled down the left side and fired a left footed cross-come shot towards goal. Daniel Lowson in the Morpeth net parried it straight to Thorogood but his point blank range effort was blocked on the line and cleared away from danger.
Loughborough took the lead on 24 minutes. The dangerous Ryan Robbins dribbled powerfully through the Morpeth defence and whipped a shot towards goal, which was parried again by Lowson. Josh Riley was there to tap into the net from close range, to the delight of the Dynamo faithful.
Morpeth were being pinned back by the home side and Loughborough doubled their lead just four minutes before the break. Riley’s free kick was cleared away straight to Thorogood who volleyed a superb right footed shot into the bottom left corner.
Morpeth came into the second half, with a spring in their steps. They were awarded a penalty on 59 minutes. Sean Taylor was bought down in the box. That left David Carson to step up from the spot and he side footed the penalty off target, wide of the right post.
Just four minutes later, the visitors did halve the deficit. Former Sunderland AFC Academy man Sean Taylor was the man that scored the goal. He used his pace and ran down the left side and clipped the ball with his left boot into the roof of the net over the on-coming goal-
keeper Charlie Taylor.
The game started to open up and became a end to end encounter. Loughborough could’ve then opened a two goal advantage up just two minutes after Morpeth pulled one back. It was some neat football by the hosts, which ended up on the right to Ruben Asamoah. He fizzed in a cross straight to the feet of Robbins but the ex Shepshed man could only see his shot fall straight at Lowson from around 10 yards out.
Morpeth piled on a mount of pressure in the final minutes of the game and created a few chances to make the scores level. But, they failed to do so as Loughborough held on to secure a fifth league win of
the campaign and sit comfortably in mid-table.
Loughborough Dynamo boss Lee Attenborough said: “I’m really delighted, we knew they’d be a good side, we knew they’d be organised. After last week’s disappointment of conceding two goals in stoppage time to only take a point at Cleethorpes, we knew we had to bounce back and we’ve done that.
“We wanted to start fast, we wanted to get on the front foot, stopped them from playing out from the back and pressing in their half and we did that really really well.”
Dynamo next up face an away trip to Belper Town on Saturday.