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06.08.05 LATICS 2 V YEOVIL TOWN 0 FULL TIME

Posted on: Fri 19 Aug 2005

Oldham Athletic V Yeovil Town

2 Mins: Early Latics pressure, Butcher's shot cruised well over the crossbar

3 Mins: Cross by Liddell into the danger zone, Porters header glancing just wide.

10 Mins: Latics caught defensively wide open. Jevons wasted a good chance 12yards out his shot carelessly fired over.

17Mins: Slick passing movements by Latics force a corner. Liddell played a high fast ball that found the head of Porter, his effort going straight into the arms of Collins.

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23 Mins GOAL: A long throw by Rob Scott caused all sorts of problems for the Yeovil defence. Wellens turned the ball back, Porter headed home to find his first of the season.

1-0

26 Mins GOAL: Wellens was again the provider, beating a defender with a by- line run, before cutting the ball to Warne who made no mistake with a first time shot from 8 yards that left the keeper with no chance.

2-0

35-37Mins: 2 great tackles by Tierney on the left, cut out any danger of a Yeovil cross by Amankwaah

Half Time Summary

Ronnie Moore's men were the Better side from the whistle working on fast pace attacking moves, that paid of with two goals by Porter and Warne . Defensively the Latics were caught on the back foot a couple of times, but any threat of danger was eventually turned away by the back three. Chris Day did make a couple of confident stops but was never really tested in the half.

Second Half

50 Mins: Early pressure by Yeovil , nearly paid off a mix up in the Latics goal area saw the ball bouncing dangerously close to the goal line, the ball eventually being turned away by Warne.

56 Mins: A long throw by Rob Scott was headed on by Porter, the Yeovil keeper narrowly beat Liddell to make the stop.

61 Mins: Porter turned Amankwaah at pace and made his run, the ball was cut out By Skiverton while Warne was free to Porter's left.

68 Mins:Rob Scott heads the ball over his own net after a dangerous ball in by Amankwaah , The corner was wasted by Yeovil.

70 Mins: Corner from Johnson picked out Sodje in the box , but his header went over the bar.

75 Mins: Terry was next to try his luck for Yeovil but his shot from 30 yards was also off target.

87 Mins: A clearance ball by Liddell picked out Warne who beat the defender to the ball , a first time strike could have took the Latics to three, but his hesitated shot drifted over the top right of the net

The Latics claim their first victory of the new season the Latics were well deserved winners in their first outing of the season. Boss Ronnie Moore included eight of his 12 summer signings, but they were always too good for newly promoted Yeovil.

The visitors never recovered after being hit by a two goal blast midway through the first half.

It is obviously early days but Oldham gave an early warning that they could be a force to be reckoned with this season

Latics 2 Yeovil 0

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Today's Teams

Latics

13. Chris Day

2. Terrell Forbes

7. Richie Wellens

14 Paul Warne

16. Rob Scott

17. Richard Butcher

21.Chris Porter

22.Andy Liddell

20.Guy Branston

19.Mark Tierney

Subs

Pogliacomi, Stam, Facey, Bonner, Edwards

Yeovile Town

Collis, Skiverton,Way,Terry,Johnson, Jevons, Jones, Amankwaah, Sodje,Poole, Davies.