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📝 | Match Report: @leistonfc (A)

📖 | Read our match report from today’s draw against Leiston in our first game of the season

🔗 | https://ht-fc.co.uk/2025/08/09/match-report-leiston-a/

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August 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
⌚️ | FULL TIME

📰 | A hard fought point in Suffolk. An even first half saw us dominate at the start of the second 45 to find a lead. Leiston battled back, got the equaliser and nearly won it. A point not a bad result, as we now set our sights on Barwell.

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August 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
90+3' | HEART IN MOUTHS!

Leiston could and probably should have scored a late late winner. The third minute of added time, the ball falls to second half substitute Billy Walsh in the box who hits it wide of the post.

⚪️Leiston 2-2 Halesowen🔵

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August 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
88' | BRILLIANT MOVE!

A pass from Burns to Wragg allows the latter to sprint forward before pulling back and finding Kellermann. The substitute passes to Finn, whose shot is hit straight at Billy Johnson.

⚪️Leiston 2-2 Halesowen🔵

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August 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
86' | Yeltz Substitution

🟢Reece Mitchell
🔴Ben Cassidy

⚪️Leiston 2-2 Halesowen🔵

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August 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
86' | WHAT A BLOCK!

Substitute Ronnie Blois switches play over to Joao Rangel, who almost adds his second goal but instead smashes the post, before the resulting Adam Mills shot forces a superb block from Hickman. Goal Saving!

⚪️Leiston 2-2 Halesowen🔵

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August 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
83' | Leiston Substitution

🟢Billy Walsh
🔴Willie Clemons

⚪️Leiston 2-2 Halesowen🔵

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August 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
83' | Double Yeltz Substitution

🟢Jim Kellerman & Harry Burns
🔴Josh Smile & Jason Cowley

⚪️Leiston 2-2 Halesowen🔵

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August 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
78' | Goal for Leiston.

⚪️Leiston 2-2 Halesowen🔵

Seb Dunbar puts in a left footed delivery which falls to Cassidy, whose failed clearance drops to Joao Rangel who smashes in the equaliser. A big final 10 minutes to come.

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August 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
74' | Manning forces a flick off a Leiston man for a fourth or fifth Yeltz corner of the half. A Wragg cross after the set piece delivery is hit towards the back post towards Willets, but straight into Leiston's possession.

⚪️Leiston 1-2 Halesowen🔵

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August 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
71' | CRUCIAL STOP!

Adam Mills produces the first Leiston shot of the second 45, as Platt reacts quickly to tip the ball behind for a corner. The delivery is dealt with by Cowley but for another corner, which comes to nothing.

⚪️Leiston 1-2 Halesowen🔵

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August 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
70' | Leiston Substitution

🟢Jude Frostick
🔴Ryan Jarvis

⚪️Leiston 1-2 Halesowen🔵

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August 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
69' | ALMOST WRAGG AGAIN!

What an impact from the Walsall loanee. The teenager forces two superb stops from Billy Johnson within the space of two minutes. It should be three, but there is nothing else Wragg could have done.

⚪️Leiston 1-2 Halesowen🔵

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August 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
65' | Leiston Substitution

🟢Ronnie Blois
🔴Jack Manly

⚪️Leiston 1-2 Halesowen🔵

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August 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
56’ | GOALLLLLL!!!!

⚪️Leiston 1-2 Halesowen🔵

What a goal from Wragg. Hickman gets around the back of the defense and allows the loanee at an angle to slam the ball inside the area straight into the top right corner. What a finish.

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August 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
50' | EARLY PRESSURE!

A pass from Butterfield splits the defense to find Wragg. The sub finds Finn, whose shot is diverted out for a corner. The delivery from Finn finds Wragg, and back to the former, but it goes out of play.

⚪️Leiston 1-1 Halesowen🔵

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August 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
46' | Yeltz Substitution

🟢Charlie Wragg
🔴Todd Parker

⚪️Leiston 1-1 Halesowen🔵

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August 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
46' | We're underway in the second half!

⚪️Leiston 1-1 Halesowen🔵

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August 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
⌚️ | HALF TIME

📰 | A difficult opening 15 saw Leiston take the lead through a Hickman own goal, but the Yeltz responded brilliantly and found the equaliser through a superb Hickman cross and Manning finish at the near post.

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August 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
42’ | GOALLLLLL!!!!!

⚪️Leiston 1-1 Halesowen🔵

Hickman won the ball back and linked up Manning before the former’s cross towards Cowley saw him head across goal, and the ball tapped in by Manning!

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August 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
36' | Adam Mills' cross is cut out by Gudger, who gives the ball back to Leiston and Wyatt Hill. The defender attempts to rectify his mistake by winning the ball off Hill in the box, in a legal manner according to the referee.

⚪️Leiston 1-0 Halesowen🔵

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August 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
30' | HUGE SAVE!

It should be two for Leiston. Adam Mills hits a ball over to Jack Manly, whose second shot of the game forces a big save from Platt, before Cassidy clears the danger.

⚪️Leiston 1-0 Halesowen🔵

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August 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
25' | A quick breather due to an ongoing drinks break. It had been a difficult 15 before the goal, but since Hickman's OG, the Yeltz have started to build momentum and show their teeth.

⚪️Leiston 1-0 Halesowen🔵

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August 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
20' | A second corner in five minutes for the Yeltz. Finn's driving run and Hickman's cross earns us a corner after a Cowley shot which deflected off Kyle Callan-McFadden. However the corner unfortunately came to nothing.

⚪️Leiston 1-0 Halesowen🔵

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August 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
15' | A good response the opener, as straight from the restart we win a corner. A right footed Hickman delivery flies into Gudger who heads it into the middle but into the palms of Leiston keeper Billy Johnson.

⚪️Leiston 1-0 Halesowen🔵

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August 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM