Huddersfield Reserves 1 Leeds Reserves 3

Last updated : 17 August 2006 By Neale Sheldon - Stoke Whites
Gylfi Einarsson was due to start the match wearing No6, but for some reason did not appear, leaving substitute (No12) Sam Hird to start the match.

Pontin's Holidays League Central Division
Minute-by-minute action from the Galpharm;

5 Hird shot deflected into Paul Rachubka's arms
8 Jon Howson cross-come-shot goes wide
10 Ian Morris twists and turns to get in a shot from 25-yds, which Rachubka does well to tip over the crossbar
12 GOAL! Seb Carole took a short corner to Morris, who squared it to Howson on the edge of the area. He unleashed a thunderous right-foot drive that gave Rachubka no chance
14 Jermaine Beckford shoots tamely from 25-yds
23 Beckford header across goal
25 GOAL! A great ball over the top by Ian Moore leaves the Town defence flat-footed and sends Beckford through on goal, and the pacy striker toe-poked the ball home
27 Jon Lund, making his Leeds reserves debut, spreads himself well to parry the ball out for a corner
31 Water break after skipper Sean Gregan goes down injured
38 Frazer Richardson's cross headed a yard wide by Moore
39 Gregan caught in the face, goes off for stiches. Hird switches to centre-half for the last 6 minutes.

2nd half

Gregan resumes alongside Hayden Foxe, but this time is wearing the No19 shirt with a bandage across his forehead
48 GOAL! Carole delivers a superb cross which Moore misses only for the ball to fall to Morris, who lashes a left-foot shot into the top corner.
54 Howson shoots from 20-yds
55 Lund saves comfortabally
58 Water break after a Huddersfield player takes a heavy knock
60 Leeds force a couple of corners in quick succession
61 Hird header straight at Rachubka
65 Richardson picks ball up on halfway line, cuts inside and hits a shot from 30-yds, just inches over
70 GOAL! Town pull it back to 1-3 when the Leeds defence fails to cut out a cross from the goal line leaving sub Luke Malcher to tap home from close in
73 Leeds subs; No15 Gardner replaces No11 Morris and No14 Danny Rose replaces No19 Gregan.
Gardner moves to left wing in a straight swop with Morris and Rose goes to the centre of midfield with Hird partnering Foxe at the back
80 Lund spreads himself well to smother and save
82 Lund commands his area well and showed good timing to come and punch a deep free kick away to safety
83 Rose plays a superb ball to Beckford wide left, who then wastes another good chance by trying to bend the ball round the keeper

Man of the Match: Jon Howson, who did an excellent job in an unfamiliar central midfield role.

Geddis said after the game: "The most important thing was that we came through with no injuries. The senior lads topped up their match fitness and that was good."

Leeds Reserves: Lund, Richardson, Camfield, Foxe, Gregan, Hird, Carole, Howson, Beckford, Moore, Morris.

Subs; Wilberforce, Rose, Gardner, Stansfield.

Town: Rachubka, Hardy, Hand, T Clarke, McCombe, McIntosh, Collins, Young, McAliskey, Berrett (Malcher, 63mins), Skarz.
Subs Unused: Smithies, Killock, Hallam, Bailey.