Arundel 0-1 Epsom & Ewell - Pre-Season Friendly - Saturday 20th July 2013 A Richard Lediju strike after 72 minutes settled a game with few chances The Salts finally broke their duck for the season with a narrow, if comfortable single goal win at Arundel's picturesque ground. Many players were still missing and Kyle Hough only arrived in deepest Sussex twenty minutes after the game had started. Still, this gave Lyndon an opportunity to look at other attacking options and Rhys Jackson, formerly of Dorking had an opportunity to show what he could do. Two more new faces appeared in defence with Jordain Henry and James Taylor (son of eighties player Dave) alongside Anthony Panayi and Sam Currie. With a familiar looking midfield containing Carl Downs, Nathan Ayling and Ben Hayward with an advanced Jamie Hatfield down the left, the side was beginning to look more settled. Up front Mark Jarman made his first appearance of the season on the right of what looked like a 4-2-3-1 system with Rhys Jackson thriough the middle. In all honesty whilst Epsom did much of the pressing, we created little, while Arundel produced even less and by half time both sides were beginning to look more for the longer ball than the shorter one, which could easily have been as a result of current the mini-heatwave as anything else. Three substitutions were made at half time with Richard Lediju, Tony Cuff and Russell Hart coming on for Jarman, Downs and Jackson, while Taylor was replaced after 61 by the same unknown player as we have seen recently. And after 72 minutes we scored the only goal of the game. A deep ball from the left back area cleared the home defence and Lediju knocked it forward with his head. He chased the loose ball and beat the keeper to it, nipping around him and slotting the ball into the empty net. In a game of few chances, little changed from that point although Kieran Campbell had to be alert to tip a long range dipping effort over the bar with three minutes remaining. We saw the game out comfortably and although we were a little defensive at times, it was nice to see us register our first clean sheet of the season after letting in eleven in the previous three matches. Line Up: Kieran Campbell, Sam Currie, Jordain Henry, Anthony Panayi, James Taylor, Carl Downs, Ben Hayward, Nathan Ayling, Rhys Jackson, Jamie Hatfield, Mark Jarman Subs: Richard Lediju for Jarman (45), Tony Cuff for Downs (45), Russell Hart for Jackson (45), Montell Shaw for Taylor (61), Jarman back on for Ayling (75)