Top dogs Bracknell next up for Green Lions
LUCAS HANLEY knows he could be in for a busy night but he has backed the Green Lions to rise to the challenge of visiting the runaway Isthmian South Central leaders today.
The 17-year-old Guernsey FC goalkeeper kept a clean sheet on his home debut in his latest outing on Saturday against Marlow, but while GFC are in good form having lost just one of their last seven games, tonight’s opponents Bracknell Town have won 20 of their last 21 league fixtures and dropped just eight points in 28 games all season to sit 18 points clear at the top of the table.
‘Of all the teams we have played so far, we’ve played a couple of teams near the top, but I think that will be a completely different test ... it will be enjoyable for me because I get to see a lot more of the ball, but hopefully we can try and get a result,’ said Hanley on the latest edition of the Guernsey Press Football Show podcast.
‘I wouldn’t put it past us with the run of form we have at the moment. I think we have got the ability to try and compete with teams like that, so we’ll see.’
Tony Vance will be without Keanu Marsh and Will Fazakerley tonight as they are away while Ben Acey is not in the squad as ‘he needs a break’, according to the GFC manager, who described Bracknell as ‘clearly miles ahead of everyone else’ in the division.
‘When you looked at the fixtures it was quite daunting that we had Marlow and Bracknell in the space of a few days – both teams who we were a million miles off the first time we played them,’ Vance said.
‘Now we are going into this game off the back of a very good and well-deserved 2-0 win over Marlow, so the optimist in me feels anything can happen, while the realism is we will do our best to spoil it for them.
‘Sometimes that can bring the best out of a group when you are having to roll your sleeves up and you are scrapping for pieces.’
Guernsey FC squad: Hanley, McKane, Fallaize, Dodd, Strawbridge, Le Tocq, Rihoy, K Mahon, Jackson, Smith, Gauvain, Allen, Le Tissier, Domaille.
