Havering started strong but failed to capitalise early on a few chances. However Carolan was found completely unmarked in the opponents half (they cannot have thought much of his earlier efforts) and began to drive at the D. Harry Mitchley has seen the opportunity early and sprinted to pull up alongside Carolan just in time for the forward to selflessly square the ball leaving Mitchley with an empty goal to walk into. Though Havering were ahead the game began to take a turn. Loughts, whose gameplan was clearly to use their experience on the bouncy watered pitch to their advantage, threw aerial and crash ball through the Havering team again and again. Havering held out well with some terrific interceptions and some very solid goal keeping from Paul Afteni. Havering having found a goal in a similar way, threw out the usual playbook and began to force passes and became wasteful across the pitch. The half time whistle couldn't come soon enough, especially after the boisterous and tenacious Leo Yang had found himself on the receiving end of a green card.

Havering decided that it was time for a reset and some more controlled substitutions. The backline was reset with Harris and Harding giving Luke Clarke a well earned rest. Lucas Afteni and Tom Eastwood took on forward capabilities in the midday heat. They were rewarded not long after the whistle when Birbeck intercepted one of Loughts crash balls. He drove forward and found Lucas Afteni in the D. Lucas played a beautiful first time pass across the face of goal to Ollie West, who gave a delightful finish, just the right height to beat the keeper.
Moments later Havering were awarded a short corner, which was then rescinded and a bully was declared. Will Tang did well to win and claim a foot before Birbeck drove into the D and won a short. Feeling confident Birbeck struck from the top of the D and with an incredible amount of luck and some diversion tactics from a wildly swinging Will Tang, the ball bounced and trickled into the left hand corner.

Tom Archer nearly wound up in the hospital, though neither umpire saw much wrong with the murder attempt. A player later dubbed Headband gave a poor excuse before losing his head (in the metaphorical sense). Richard Cast felt that the home side should have an opportunity on goal and served the forward a lovely ball into the D, the defense and keeper doing well to keep it out. Finally, Havering extended their lead after some play left Carolan in front of goal, this time without a teammate, but as we've seen before he went around the keeper to confidently reversed the ball into the net.

Havering did well to hold fast for the last minutes of the game and secured another solid victory away from home.

Will Leo's kung fu magic help the team next week?