Pre-season match report: Emley 0 - 6 Huddersfield Town
AFC EMLEY will have been gratified by a good attendance for their annual pre-season derby against Town – but were probably not so enamoured of the 6-0 defeat they suffered.
On a dismal night the Football League outfit handed out a lesson in neat and tidy play to their non-League rivals, but the wet conditions hardly gave either side much to work with.
On a surface that saw even the slightest over playing of a pass lead to the ball skipping merrily away from its intended target it was hard to fathom just what this friendly encounter would have done to help either side’s preparation for the coming campaign – short of being a good workout for any unexpected games on the Indian sub-continent in the monsoon season.
However, both sides endeavoured to get the ball down and play and Town’s mixture of youth and experience, which gave way to entirely youth for the final quarter of the match, showed that an ethos of looking to play sharp simple attacking football is beginning to pervade every strata of the club.
Emley to their credit fought all the way, but on this first friendly outing will be aware that fitness levels will be a priority as they build towards the season’s start.
Town striker Phil Jevons proved the dangerman and he came away with a deserved hat-trick.
He got the ball rolling on the 16th minute with a neatly placed header opening the scoring and then it was his tidy pass across the top of the penalty area that allowed Michael Flynn to rasp home a low drive to double Town’s lead.
Aiden Chippendale, who was ever a threat on the left flank, was the architect of Town’s third goal as his cross allowed Keigan Parker to get in a shot, Emley keeper Jamie Green was equal to the effort but his parry rolled invitingly for Jevons to tuck away his second.
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