Cornelly's disappointing return

By Nathan Jackson
March 9 2005

Chris Cornelly returned to action after 18 months out in a reserve fixture against his home town club, Huddersfield Town. However, the result went the way of the visitors thanks to a Junior Mendes strike. The game also saw the returns from injury of Ben Futcher and Nathan Peat.

The winning goal came in the 68th minute thanks to a Junior Mendes lob over Simon Raynor from just inside the box. Huddersfield probably would have been disappointed they didn't get more given that 8 of the 11 starters for them played against Lincoln in the play semi finals last season although the 8 of the Lincoln starting 11 have featured in the first team at some point during the season.

Cornelly himself had an average game creating a few chances whilst failing to get onto some provided for him but most importantly of all, he came through the game without a reaction to his injury and was taken off after 72 minutes. However, it will be sometime before he is match fit to be considered for the first team squad.

Lincoln Reserves Starting Line Up : Simon Raynor, Phil Watt, Michael Blackwood, Ben Futcher, Jack Hobbs, Chris Gordon, Lee Frecklington, Nathan Peat, Martin Carruthurs, Ollie Ryan, Chris Cornelly

Subs : Leon Mettam, Tom Kemp, Shane Clarke, Keiran O'Boyle, Tom Cooke

Huddersfield Reserves Starting Line Up : Phil Senior, Nat Brown, Anthony Lloyd, Lee Fowler, John McCombe, Efe Sodje, Danny Schofield, Tony Carss, Jon McIlliskey, Junior Mendes, Rob Edwards

Subs : Adam Hardy, Jacob Giles, David Walls, James Hand