London Lions 100 per cent home record came to an end on Saturday after drawing 2-2 with Letchworth Garden City Eagles.
Once again this was a game that should have been over in the first half with the home side creating numerous opportunities, but a mixture of fine goal keeping and poor finishing always gave the away side a chance.
Within the first five minutes of the game Lions could have been 2-0 up after chances fell to Benji Weinberger and Furman. Lions were playing free-flowing football and their dominance finally turned into a goal when the lively Weinberger scored his 3rd goal in 6 games.
Lions continued to dominate, Keterman, Kasler and Kennet were all guilty of missing chances to kill the game off. With 10 minutes remaining of the half LGC were level after a sloppy ball by Lions centre-half Jon Ellis gifted the forward an opportunity to level from 15 yards out.
The second half started as the first ended with Lions creating more chances but unable to regainthe lead, LGC grew in confidence and forced a fine save from Tray, the game was starting to turn for LGC then Lions were dealt a blow when Furman was forced off with a pulled hamstring and was replaced by the returning David Soutar.
Lions restored 20 minutes remaining Lions went ahead after Louie Greenham’s left-foot shot flew past the keeper.
The lead did not last long and LGC were back on level terms after the centre forward ran off his marker and rounded the on coming Tray to slip the ball into the bottom corner of the net 2-2.
With 15 minutes remaining a little bit of history was made when Lions introduced U16 star Jack Mattey who at 16 years and 14 days became the youngest player to make his senior debut. The young winger found his feet straight away and looked tidy and accomplished whilst being able to run the LGC full back.
Lions searched for a winner and Charlie Kasler had a great chances with minutes remaining but it was not to be.
Lions boss Andy Landesberg said: "The last few weeks I feel like I’m repeating myself, I cant fault the performances , its just the finishing which is killing us.
"We must create 15-20 chances a game but if you don’t punish teams then results like this will happen more often than not. I think we know what will be worked on in training this week."
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