Stenhousemuir FC v East Stirlingshire

Match Report

Stenhousemuir v Livingston at Ochilview Park, Stenhousemuir on 4.7.15

Pre-season friendly            Att 287

Stenhousemuir 0 Livingston 3 [Trialist no22 in 20 min, Buchanan 30, Mullen 38]

Stenhousemuir – Shaw, McCormack, Summers, Malcolm, Trialist,  Stirling, Trialist, Millar, McMenamin, Smith and Marenghi. Subs used at half time– Meechan, Trialist, Craigie, Cook, Trialist, Barclay and Trialist. Subs used at 60 minutes – Allen, Nash and Chitemere.

Livingston first half team – Jamieson, Millen, Trialist 14, Cole, J.Longridge, Gibbons, Trialist 17, Hippolyte, Trialist 22, Sheerin and Buchanan.

Livingston second half team – Trialist, Currie, Gordon, Sives, Pittman, Trialist, Glen, Mullen, White and Knox and Cole [Trialist no 17 60].

Referee – Don Robertson.

Stenny started well, zipping the ball around crisply, but Mark Burchill’s side settled in and went ahead in the 20^th minute when the Bulgarian trialist drove the ball past Dean Shaw after being set up by a lovely reverse pass by Liam Buchanan. The provider became scorer ten minutes later rifling home a second in 30 minutes after a superb Ross Millen crossfield pass set him up and then Millen himself fired in a third eight minutes later.

The second half saw both teams make a number of changes with Livingston making ten changes at half time whilst the Warriors also made ten throughout the half. This gave the Under 20s in the squad a run out and they equipped themselves well until it came to finishing with the Livingston trialist keeper rarely troubled though he was tested by efforts from Alan Smith and Alan Cook.