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Penrith Over 35s v Grasslot FC

Penrith Over 35s travelled to Maryport to take on Grasslot FC to play their last away fixture of the season and now have the final four games of the season to play home writes Kevin Clark.

On a slippery surface both sides started slowly with not much happening in the way of chances on goal, Grasslot launched long balls into the area but found Penrith keeper Nigel McCombie in fine form as he came and collected almost everything in and around the box.

Penrith had the first good chance but the home keeper done well and pulled off a smart save to deny Ian Mallinson, the visitors settled down and played some superb one touch football with Chris Walker being at the hub of most of the activity, after a fine move down the right from Penrith the ball was eventually cleared for a corner, Peter Lightburn’s corner was whipped into the box and in the confusion the ball ended in the back of the net from a Grasslot defender to give Penrith the lead.

Grasslot regrouped and from the restart McCombie was forced into a fine save gathering well on a difficult surface.

Five minutes after going in front Penrith doubled their lead when Alan Parkin played a ball into Walkers feet, he took one touch and slipped the ball in between two defenders and set Ross Kaminski clean through who in turn touched the ball past the onrushing keeper and left himself clear to simply walk the ball into the net.

Walker was again instrumental in Penrith’s next chance as he played a wonderful ball into Mallinson who guided the ball past the keeper but was dismayed to see the linesman flag him offside.

Grasslot soon got back into the game when Lawson lost the ball and a couple of swift passes allowed the striker a free run in on goal and he finished well past an exposed Penrith keeper.

After half an hour an innocuous challenge by Kaminski led to a Grasslot player totally overreacting and being sent from the field of the player by the referee.

Penrith then seemed to relax and they rode their luck on several occasions against the home side’s ten men.

Penrith reached half time with a 2-1 lead and made a couple of changes to freshen things up, Penrith were then instructed by the referee that Grasslot would now be up to eleven men as he had not sent the Grasslot player off but merely "sin-binned" the offending player!

An even half saw both sides creating good chances and the home keeper done well to block two ferocious drives by Lightburn while at the other end McCombie pulled off a superb one handed save to keep Penrith in front.

With twenty minutes remaining a corner was cleared to the edge of the box and Wayne Reebanks put in a great cross that Chris Walker volleyed home a blistering shot into the top corner from eight yards to make it 3-1 to Penrith.

Penrith wrapped the game up with ten minutes to go when Matthew Hawkins played the ball into Walker, Walker turned and invited the left back onto him and then cleverly played in Danny Irving who fired home from an acute angle to give the visitors a tremendous 4-1 victory and keep them in second place.

　

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