Hibs come from behind to beat Vale

Dave Ryce • Published 12 Aug 2010 09:30 0 Comments

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AN Hibernian side containing no less than eight members of the first team squad came from behind to beat Vale on a rainy Tuesday evening.

But the Innerleithen side were in no way disgraced, matching their illustrious opponents for long periods of the ninety minutes and making Hibs work hard for their victory.

The pace at which the Edinburgh side opened the match suggested that Vale were in for a difficult evening, but despite some early pressure from the visitors, it was the home side who went ahead in the eleventh minute, albeit in quite bizarre circumstances.

Steve Radzynski rose to meet a high ball forward with Hibs’ captain Ian Murray, and when it fell to defender Steven Thicot, the Frenchman’s attempt to usher the ball back to his keeper eluded Mark Brown and rolled into the net.

However, the capital side did equalise shortly before half time from the penalty spot as Walker was adjudged to have pulled down Lewis Stevenson in the area. Lee Currie stepped up to send Walker the wrong way from the spot.

The second-half, as is usually the case in pre-season friendlies, was a fragmented affair as both sides made a slew of substitutions, with Vale even replacing three of their back four.

In the 65th minute, Vale centre-half Rory Stewart, who had only been on the pitch for a few minutes, took an uncertain touch on the edge of the area and was dispossessed by a tackle from Galbraith.

The ball broke to Stevenson, who crossed for substitute Danny Handling to arrive at the back post and knock the ball in.

Vale had a wonderful chance to equalise shortly afterward as a great move saw Jamie Lauder switch play to Tainsh, whose first time ball across the face of goal fell invitingly for Radzynski, but he somehow knocked the ball wide of the post.

Vale weren’t about to get a better chance than that and were made to pay in the 77th minute as David Crawford found Handling in front of goal and his downward header beat Walker for his second and Hibs’ third.

A good finish saw Vale’s Lauder with a shot tipped over by substitute keeper Thomas Flynn and Tainsh’s corner was flicked on by Aaron Brunton, but came too quickly at Andy Penman for him to get the header on target.

Vale of Leithen: D. Walker; G. Tainsh, P. Lee, M. Stewart, J. Hall, P. Greenhill, C. Beaton, D. Gillon, S. Radzynski, S. Moffat, J. Lauder. Subs: A. Milligan, R. Stewart, A. Brunton, A. Chbira, A. Penman.

Hibernian XI: M. Brown; C. Burns, S. Smith, S. Thicot, I. Murray, L. Currie, L. Horner, L. Stevenson, Trialist, J. Rankin, D. Galbraith. Subs: T. Flynn, D. Horribine, H. Monaghan, R. Caldwell, D. Gold, D. Handling, P. Addison, D. Crawford.

This article appeared in Peeblesshire News 13 Aug 10

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