Brewers Droop

Hopperational details
Date & Venue	Monday 26 May 2014 at Wembley
Result	Burton Albion 0 Fleetwood 1
Competition	League Two Playoff Final
Hopping	22nd visit to the “new” Wembley and completing a playoff final quadruple for this year (Championship, One, Two, Conference)
Pre-match preparation
Both teams are playing for their first chance to go up to the third tier of English football.  Fleetwood were a step 5 club in the North West Counties League at the turn of the century and their rise up the pyramid has been steady and rapid.  They were managed by former West Brom midflelder Mickey Mellon when I visited their ground.  This is their second season in League Two and would take them within one step of local rivals Blackpool.  Burton have a current West Brom connection in that their assistant manager is Kevin Summerfield.  They have been in the league a few years longer and this is their second year running in the playoffs as they were semi-finalists last season.
This match in one sentence
Fleetwood hung on reasonably easily after scoring a somewhat fortuitous second half goal in the least dramatic of this weekend’s playoff finals.
So what?
Fleetwood head to League One next season.
The drama unfolds
Both teams played direct attacking football at a lively tempo, but in general the defences were on top.  Burton’s goalkeeper Dean Lyness made a splendid save in the opening moments but the game settled into a sparring pattern thereafter.  0-0 at halftime The decisive goal game from a freekick way out on the left flank from Antoni Sarcevic.  The presence of an attacker helped to distract Lyness who could then only deflect the ball into the net for a relatively soft goal.  Burton forced a few late corners and Fleetwood wasted a two-on-two break, but the Cod Army were celebrating well before the final whistle came.  Final score 0-1 Clips: Burton are in yellow 1 First half scene-setter 2 Fleetwood first-half pressure 3 Just before the break 4 Second half under way 5 In the last few minutes 6 Final Burton effort
Ground Pix
Spot the spelling mistake .. those scarves may be worth a fortune one day! No bits of Bobby Moore today - am running out of things to photograph at Wembley...
Match Pix
Huddle Stats
Burton huddled, Fleetwood didn’t.  The Brewers never had a chance. 2013-14 Summary so far: P W D L GF GA Pts Pts per Game Non-Huddlers 33 17 3 13 55 54 54 1.64 Huddlers 19 6 5 8 20 19 23 1.21 Twin Huddlers 2 0 2 0 3 3 2 1.00 Huddle bef ET 1 0 0 1 5 6 0 0.00 2nd Half Huddlers 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0.00
Goalkeeper Top Colour Stats
Grey (Burton) plays Green (Fleetwood) so the gap has been reduced.  Whatever happens now the Petr Cech “orange is best” theory has been debunked. 2013-14 Summary so far: 3pts for a win, 1pt for a draw, -1pt for a goal conceded and +5pts for a clean sheet P W D L GA (-1 each) CS (5 each) Pts Pts per Game Red 3 2 0 1 3 1 8 2.67 Grey 14 7 2 5 15 5 33 2.36 Green 13 7 1 5 16 4 26 2.00 Purple 2 1 0 1 6 1 2 1.00 Yellow 5 1 2 2 9 1 1 0.20 Blue 6 2 1 3 12 1 0 0.00 Radioactive Bile 4 2 0 2 7 0 -1 -0.25 Orange 3 1 1 1 6 0 -2 -0.67 Pink 7 1 3 3 16 0 -10 -1.43 Maroon 1 0 0 1 2 0 -2 -2.00
What Next?
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