A few days after the iconic outing at Fratton Park Harrow Borough visited Hampton & Richmond Borough in the Middlesex Senior Cup. Resuming reality, the visitors went into this fixture having lost for the first time in eight games, with their defeat at the hands of Portsmouth a respectable one. Our host this evening have not played since their loss to Dulwich Hamlet at the end of October. Seven goal thriller at Champion Hill that day.
The first real chance of this game came in the tenth minute as Harrow had an attempt on Rhys Fosters goal. Playing well to get up the pitch, and make an opportunity against a full-strength Hampton side. Minutes later the host had their opening opportunity, free kick curled just wide from Kyron Farrell. Breaking away again Hampton had another chance in the fifteenth minute. Ryan Gondoh sets free Miller Rodney to put a cross into the box, but no one was there to finish it off. Score staying level in the initial exchanges. Dernell Wynter had a go at goal for Harrow, after the visitors have had a silent period of the game. Straight at the keeper unfortunately. On the counter the host managed to break the deadlock. Straight through on goal Gondoh made no mistake of slipping the ball into the net. Exactly ten minutes on from scoring in the thirty third minute, Hampton found the net once more. Imran Uche scoring against his current loan club, with a fantastic effort from twenty yards out. Respectfully the player chose not to celebrate against the club that gave me an unforgettable day at Fratton Park. On the stroke of half time a third flew into the net for Hampton. Leo Donnellan finding his own net, after Niko Muir put in a ball that can only be described as a crossed shot.
At the half time whistle Harrow Borough looked dead and buried. Having heavily rotated their side after Portsmouth, and facing a full-strength host team. That have not played in a while too. Men against boys. Anthony O Connor came on for the visitors at the break, giving him much needed minutes. But it was the home side that had the first piece of action in the second half, Niko Muir making the most out of the clearance from Kyron Farrell in the forty-nineth minute. It didn’t take long for the Beavers to get a fourth. Lovely team work from them let Miller Rodney find space in behind, dumping the ball in the net. Fifty-four minutes and this tie is over. Harrow did manage to pull one back in the fifty-nineth minute, however it was a later awarded as an own goal. One a piece this match.
In conclusion it was a disappointing evening. Many players looked tired, or were rested after the fantastic cup run. overall, a game that means nothing to our season was over and out the way. Back to focusing on competitions that matter, starting with Leiston on Saturday. FA trophy action it is.
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