Harborough Town 3 v 0 Coleshill Town

[Alan Beckett]

Tuesday 10th October 2023
Northern Premier League Midland Division
Harborough Town 3 v 0 Coleshill Town
Scorers: Paul Malone, Kai Tonge, Silvano Obeng.
Attendance: 221.
Supporters Club Man Of The Match:


Teams:
Harborough: James Dadge, Dan Forbes, Josh Walsh, Luca Miller, Ben Williams, Alex Morris, Kai Tonge (Dodzi Agbenu), Jake Duffy, Paul Malone (Silvano Obeng), Connor Kennedy, Amar Sandhu (Rhys Hoenes).
Subs not used: Dan Cooper, Gary Mulligan.


Coleshill: Paul Hathaway, Adrian Gyamera, Oscar Tonge, Robert Evans, Harry Higginson, Josh Willis, Ashton Demulder, Sam Fitzgerald, Gio Dainty (Taylor Jones), Alex Tomkinson (Leo Wood), Theo Rowe.
Subs not used: Ishan Rehman, George Washbourne.


MATCH REPORT
Coleshill’s leading goalscorer from last season, Kai Tonge, 36, scored his first goal for his new club against Coleshill. Josh Willis was shown a Red card and against 10 men the home side scored two more.

MATCH REPORT
Taken from Harborough web site
Harborough Town notched their fifth consecutive win in all competitions, scoring three goals without reply against 10-man Coleshill Town.
The Bees opened the scoring within five minutes as Paul Malone reacted quickest in the box to poke the ball past Paul Hathaway and into the back of the net.
Connor Kennedy’s header towards goal in the next attack nearly made it two goals in as many minutes for the hosts, but Hathaway got down well to parry the ball away, a trick he repeated when palming out Malone’s similar effort from a corner.
Proceeding this, Coleshill’s best chance came following a period of possession around the Harborough box, but Oscar Tonge could not find the finish as his effort whistled over the bar.
His cousin however, Harborough’s Kai Tonge, made no mistake with his finish as he slotted the ball into the bottom corner after being played through by Malone to double the lead.
Things would go from bad to worse for Colehill as Josh Willis was given his marching orders for a stamp on Luca Miller, reducing the visitors to 10-men for the entirety of the second half.
Efforts from Kennedy, Jake Duffy and Luca Miller came thick and fast during sustained pressure from the hosts as they looked to truly put the game to bed, with Coleshill staying compact in defence to keep the scoreline down.
It wasn’t until the last kick of the game that the Harborough faithful could celebrate another goal, with Silvano Obeng bulging the back of the net with his header from a corner to cap off a successful evening for the Bees.