Simon Morgan admitted he was fortunate to find the net as Fulham held promotion-chasing Colchester United to a 2-2 draw at Layer Road this afternoon.
The Fulham skipper opened the scoring in bizarre fashion when his speculative shot bobbled through the legs of visiting goalkeeper Carl Emberson on the half hour mark. Morgan told the media afterwards: “He must have been talking to our supporters behind the goal when I hit that one! He just took his eye off it and it went in. I couldn’t believe it. I have to admit I had a good laugh about it.”
Morgan’s stroke of luck gave Fulham the perfect position from which to control proceedings but the skipper and his manager Micky Adams were disappointed with the way the Whites conceded two poor goals from set pieces as the predatory Scott McGleish scored his first goals of his second spell in Essex. “We are really disappointed not to get all three points,” insisted Morgan. “We conceded two goals from set-pieces again and that’s really not good enough.” McGleish’s second rescued a point for Steve Wignall’s side after Mike Conroy had beaten both the offside trap and Emberson to restore Fulham’s lead just after half time.
Both sides had to play the final quarter of the contest with ten men after Terry Angus and Tony Adcock were sent off after a set-to inside the Fulham penalty area.
CAMBRIDGE UNITED: Emberson; Dunne, Gibbs, McCarthy, Caesar, Dennis, Kinsella, Fry, McLeish, Adcock, Reinelt. Subs (not used): Cheetham, Gregory, Boyce.
BOOKED: McCarthy.
SENT OFF: Adcock (68).
GOALS: McGleish (43, 76).
FULHAM: Lange; Marshall, Herrera, Morgan, Blake, Angus, Thomas, Brooker, Conroy, Scott (Hamill 85), Simpson. Sub (not used): Mison, Barkus.
BOOKED: Marshall.
SENT OFF: Angus (68).
GOALS: Morgan (30), Conroy (46).
REFEREE: Uriah Rennie (Sheffield)
ATTENDANCE: 3,795.
