EBFL Division One Team Report (09/04/2025): Prospect FC vs. Hype Train FC

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Match Report: Hype Train FC

Date: Wednesday 9th April 2025

Competition: EBFL Division One (Game 17)

Opposition: Prospect FC

Location: Calcot Recreation Ground, Off Highview, Calcot, Reading, RG31 4XD

Final Score: Prospect FC 3-2 Hype Train FC

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Match Report:

The Train's encounter against Prospect was our 27th fixture of the 2024/25 season in the East Berkshire Football League, with the team competing in EBFL's Division One. This was the reversal of the league encounter last December, with the hosts winning 1-0 on the road.

In a quick start to the game, The Train took the lead with 4 minutes on the clock. After winning a free-kick, Chris Marshall stepped up to deliver a deep free-kick from his own half that was guided right onto the head of Ashley Rockall, who looped a header over the Prospect goalkeeper for the lead.

Within 3 minutes of the opening goal, the game was level due to a mistake at the back. A floated in corner was lost in the air due to the setting sun, with Robert Austin dropping the set-piece across the line for the equaliser.

The team's lead was restored in the 23rd minute of the game, with great work down the right flank by Anwar Mmanga saw the full back run the right channel, before cutting in with the ball, and teeing up Phil Newport, who on the spin, hit home the ball on his left in what was a clever finish by our Number 9.

Just how the game drew level the first time, during the 28th minute of the game another Prospect corner kick flew directly in at the back-post, with a host of bodies charging into the back of the net, though the ball had already crossed the line before there was a touch via the back of a Prospect defender.

In the second-half, Prospect were reduced to 10-men on the 59th minute after their goalkeeper was shown a straight red card after handling the ball outside the area, which prevented Conall Gorman going through on goal. A host of several chances via crosses and set-pieces came to little as a compact Prospect team scored the winning effort in the 90th minute against the run of play when their Number 5 completed a hat-trick with a tap in after a deflected low cross.

Next up, The Train are in EBFL Division One action against Old Windsor FC Reserves at Waingels College in Reading on Saturday 12th April 2025.

Hype Train FC: Matchday Squad

Manager: Robert Austin

Starting 11:

GK: Robert Austin

DEF: Anwar Mmanga (Robertson 71')

DEF: Jon Watkins (Coe 88')

DEF: Ashley Rockall (C)

DEF: Mark Bush (Mmanga 82')

MID: Connor Anderson

MID: Lucas Coe (Burles-Nash 85')

MID: Nadim Gharabli

MID: Chris Marshall (Saunders 62')

MID: Conall Gorman (Follington 65')

FOR: Phil Newport

Substitutes:

SUB: Mitchell Saunders

SUB: Josh Robertson

SUB: Brad Burles-Nash

SUB: Luke Follington

Goals & Assists:

Goal 1: Rockall (goal), Marshall (assist)

Goal 2: Newport (goal), Mmanga (assist)

to know more about The Hype Train?

The Hype Train is an entertainment website founded in 2015, specialising in general football and Fantasy sports reporting, starting with Fantasy Premier League (FPL), before expanding to MLS Fantasy coverage in 2018.

We pride ourselves in providing beautiful graphics, statistics, in-depth analytical reporting and free weekly insight for hopeful players attempting to climb rankings tables. We are also occasional media reviewers, with a keen interest to review games, live sport, and professional wrestling.

In 2019, Hype Train Football Club was formed, becoming the first Fantasy Football website to take to the field. HTFC is a socially active team across social and web channels, providing regular match highlights, match reports, comprehensive player statistics and unique player profiles. We won both Goal of the Season Awards in the Berkshire and County FA regions, with Callum Parr-Jones winning the Berks & Bucks FA award, whilst Martin King won the PlaySport UK award.

In 2021, we formed the Reading Sunday Social League (RSSL), a competitive Sunday League involving 8 teams in its debut season. During the 2021/22 season, we won our first-ever trophy, lifting the East Berkshire Football League's Presidents Cup!

The Hype Train were nominated and shortlisted for the 'Best Football Blog' in 2016 by the Football Bloggers Association at their annual Football Blogging Awards (The FBA's), and were again shortlisted as a finalist in 2019 in the 'Best Fantasy Football Blog' category.

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