Guisborough Town 3-1 Pickering Town
(North Riding Senior Cup Round 2)

Guisborough Town 3-1 Pickering Town
(North Riding Senior Cup Round 2)

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Details

Date Time Competition Season Attendance Captain
18/12/2024 19:45 WOODSmith Construction North Riding Senior Cup 2024/25 147 Robert Dean

Guisborough Town F.C. Logo KO KO 17 24 38 48 60 71 76 76 77 84 FT

Match Report

A fine brace of goals from Kurtis Howes and another excellent effort by Joe Pickett earned Guisborough Town a thoroughly-deserved 3-1 victory over Pickering Town to set up an interesting meeting with Middlesbrough’s Academy stars in the next round.

It will mean a return almost certainly to the Kevin Edward KGV Stadium by Guisborough’s popular former Assistant Manager Paul Crager, who co-manages the young Boro starlets.

The date for the tie is still to be confirmed and although it will technically be a home tie for Middlesbrough they are likely to concede that advantage and switch the match to the KGV.

The Priorymen, seeking to stretch their impressive unbeaten run to nine consecutive games, started off brilliantly against Pickering and spurted into a well-deserved two-goal lead by midway through the first half.

JOE’S FINE FORM CONTINUES

First Joe Pickett continued his fine form with a stunner of a goal in the 17th minute when from Guisborough’s third corner in a row the ball was cleared out to Pickett who curled a lovely first-time shot into the top corner.

Then seven minutes later Kurtis Howes pounced on a Pickering mistake on the edge of the penalty area and hit a beautiful left footed shot into the far corner for 2-0.

Picketing pulled a goal back in the 37th minute through Ben Silburn but an impressive Guisborough were full value for their half-time 2-1 lead.

In the second half Guisborough continued to make most of the running and were rewarded for their non-stop efforts in the 71st minute when Joey Smith and Howes combined brilliantly for Howes to compose himself before rifling the ball home for his second and his side’s third clinching goal of the game.

After the match Guisborough Manager Steve Connolly commented:

We’re really pleased with the performance tonight. Pickering posed real threats to us, particularly in wide areas – but I thought we handled them really well.

Our three goals demonstrated real variety within our attacks and we created plenty more opportunities. So for the boys to now have gone nine games unbeaten says an awful lot about their character.

Report: Bill Perfitt

Past Meetings

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Ground

Kevin Edward KGV Stadium
King George V Stadium Howlbeck Road, Guisborough TS14 6LE