Match Report

Grampound 4-2 Lifton Res.

18 January 2025
St Piran League

For once, Grampound started well and were 2 goals ahead after 15 minutes through goals from Gavin Boon and Brendan Hitchens.  It looked as if the 10-0 scoreline from earlier in the season might be repeated but the visitors restricted Grampound well in the rest of the half although they offered little in an attacking sense.

Grampound'd performace after the break was not even up to the standard of the last half-hour of the first half.  Slow passing, mishit balls and frequently playing a difficult pass rather then the simple one seemed to be the order of the day.  To be fair, the surface was far from easy to play on and it wasn't until late on in the half that Hitchens played an nice lob to beat the advancing keeper and make the score 3-0 but a mistake in Grampound's penalty area presented the visitors with an unmissable chance to reduce the arrears. The visiting goalkeeper made a string of good saves in the second half but Hitchens completed his hat-trick with a sharp header from a Penfold cross to make the score 4-1.  However, another poor, inexplicable mistake gifted the visitors a second goal late on.