Mossley’s run of unbeaten league games came to an end with a dismal home defeat to Bamber Bridge
Very little happened in the early stages, a couple of minor half chances for Mossley, and in the 11th minute Mossley won a corner. A couple of home fans bellowed out encouragement, but they needn’t have bothered as the corner went straight at the first defender.
So why am I reporting that non event you ask? Well because said defender then passed it forward and Bridge counter attacked, with the ball fed through to Ryan Salmon on the left edge of the penalty area. With Pearson the goalkeeper running out to close him down, he slotted it into the bottom right corner to put Bamber Bridge
They followed this with a couple more chances, including a close range header from a corner going just wide of the right hand post.
The teams were matching each other in terms of possession but the difference was that every now and again Bridge would create a decent chance, whilst Mossley weren’t actually creating anything significant and looked lost without on loan Cameron Darkwah, out injured in recent games.
Then in the 24th minute Lee Rick threaded a through ball to Constantine, who controlled it and rolled it low into the left corner, and out of the blue Mossley were level.
Little happened after this, Bridge had a few shots flying miles over the bar, Danny Queeley headed wide from a corner for Mossley. Then right at the end of the half with both teams seemingly cancelling each other out, an attempted Bamber Bridge Bamber Bridge
Mossley fans were hoping for an early response in the second half, and as soon as the half began they attacked, with Kayde Coppin put through one on one with the keeper. He had to score, but instead dragged it wide of the left post, a dreadful miss.
If anyone hoped this quick attack would set the tone for the 2nd half, they were unfortunately very wrong. There were no more attacks or shots at all for Mossley in the next 40 minutes. None at all. With Bamber Bridge happy to just try to play keep ball when they had it, and then back off and mark up and wait for a mistake to happen when Mossley had it (and many, many mistakes happened), the half descended into a total none event.
Bamber Bridge created a couple of half chances including a close range shot saved by Pearson around the 75th minute, but in truth they were set up defensively as if expecting an onslaught. And really Mossley should have been taking advantage of this and piling forward, but they just seemed to have lost the ability to string together even simple passes, the ball sailing out for countless throw ins and goal kicks, and a large number of scrappy giveaways.
Bridge really could have taken advantage of this and probably got a couple more goals if they’d have wanted to, but after losing in their 2 previous league games they were obviously just intent on holding on to their lead and not risking anything.
Mossley had one more shot right near the end of the game, substitute Osebi Abadaki getting the ball on the edge of the penalty area – and smashing it high and wide, miles over the bar, miles over the stand behind the goal for that matter. That terrible effort literally was the only attempt Mossley had at all from the 46th minute onwards. Like I said at the start of this report, it leaves you wondering how exactly they’d managed to put together a 5 game unbeaten league run.
Next up they travel to Brigg Town on Saturday for the FA Trophy preliminary round, in the hope they can put together a cup run in this competition to make up for crashing out 4-0 to lower league Runcorn Linnets in the FA Cup preliminary round. After this performance, it’s looking very unlikely.
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