Match reports
Meridian 1–0 Halbrook: Whitfield sends the club into round three
A second-half header settled a tight cup tie under the Kingsway Park lights.
Sam Whitfield’s second-half header settled a tight League Cup tie under the Kingsway Park lights and sent Meridian into the third round for the first time in four seasons.
Halbrook, two divisions below, defended in numbers and had the better of the first half. Iversen saved from Deane on 23 minutes and Marchetti hit the bar from a corner on the stroke of half-time.
It came on 63 minutes. Reid’s corner was headed back across goal by Bekele and Whitfield, unmarked at the far post, nodded in from a yard. It was his first goal in the competition.
