by Tippy Tappy Football » Sat Apr 10, 2021 11:43 am
Oldham Athletic 5 Colchester United 2
Watched this game after the Stags. Dylan "Bamboozler" had a couple of early chances to score for Oldham before a poor back pass by Callum Whelan and kick by Oldham keeper, Laurie Walker, nearly allowed Wiredu to score. Oldham took the lead when Tom Eastman inexplicably chopped down Oldham MOM, Davis Keillor-Dunn, in the area. Conor McAleny scored the penalty to take him to 17 league goals for the season. Alfie McCalmont then curled a free kick off the post into the net after some typical Curle shithousery with five Oldham players jumping up and down in front of the keeper. HT: 2-0
Carl Piergianni, always dangerous at set pieces, scored from a corner to make it 3-0 and it looked game over. However Col U left back, Ryan Clampin, made a good interception that allowed Frank Nouble to grab a goal back and then Keith Curle went all negative and subbed forward, Conor McAleny, for the more defensive Ben Garrity. He then paid the price as Col U started to come forward more and Tom Eastman scored with a shot outside the area which Laurie Walker let slip underneath him on 81 minutes. It looked like Col U had a decent chance of matching the 3-3 draw earlier in the season and Ryan Clampin did get clean through on goal but Walker made a good save. Davis Keillor-Dunn then scored two goals on the counter attack for Oldham in injury time as Col U threw bodies forward. Keillor-Dunn has now scored 10 league goals. FT: 5-2
Another bad result for Col U but they at least scored two goals away from home. The Essex derby with Southend is going to be a massive game
Oldham MOM: Davis Keillor-Dunn
Col U MOM: Ryan Clampin