Formartine United 4 Keith 0: Maroons lose sixth game on the bounce
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AFTER three successive league wins, Keith slipped to their sixth successive league defeat in a row at Formartine at the weekend, writes Charlie Simpson.
It is a cycle that the Maroons are finding hard to break, with trait of losing early goals continuing to be the order of the day.
Conceding twice inside the opening 11 minutes at Formartine left them on the back foot, and struggling to cope with the physicality of the game, this was always going to be a tall order.
After only four minutes, the visiting defence failed to clear their lines and ex-Maroons striker Jonny Smith reacted to scramble the ball home amidst a ruck of players from eight yards.
The rearguard was breached again seven minutes later when Daniel Park, another ex Keith forward whipped the ball over into the six- yard box from the right wing, and the unfortunate Kieran Yeats sliced it into the roof of his own net.
To be fair, Craig Ewen’s side clawed back into the game, but without causing the goalkeeper too much trouble. They were hit again with 32 minutes on the clock when Aaron Norris found the target with a fine looping header from 10 yards.
A better second half performance looked like bearing some fruit, but with 64 minutes gone an unfortunate fourth goal was conceded.
A drop ball was the outcome when the referee got in the way of play in the middle of the park, and a James Brownie slip allowed Scott Lisle to capitalise, racing through to clip the ball beyond the helpless Demus.
