Paulton Rovers U18 2 - 1 Odd Down U18

A young Paulton team, including 12 x U16 players, showed great character to take all 3 points against visitors Odd Down FC.

The visitors started the most lively of the two sides on the night, getting in behind the Paulton defence but without creating any clear cut chances.

However, Paulton grew into the game and started to attack well, particularly down the right side through George Stevens, it wasn’t long until a cross from George was deflected into the goal by one of the Odd Down Defenders to give the home side the lead, 1-0.

With a foot hold in the game, Paulton started to look more comfortable in possession, until 2 poor passes lead to the ball being given away at the back allowing Odd Down to find a well taken leveller, 1-1.

A few more opportunities came for both teams but some good defending prevented anyone from finding a way through and the game looked destined for a 1-1 draw.
That was until the 89th minute when the Paulton number 5 was shown a straight red for a late tackle.

With an extra player, Odd Down created a number of very good opportunities and came close on a number of occasions to finding the winning goal, however Paulton dug deep and with 1 minute to go Noah Abbott did very well to find Luke Mavridis who finished superbly into the far corner to give the home side all 3 points, 2-1.