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Herne Bay Utd 0 FC Porto 21

At the last of Herne Bay United’s home matches in the Euro League last Saturday we saw the host team on the constant defence. FC Porto one of Europe’s strongest teams powered on the pressure from the start, HBU held the Portuguese giants at arms length but after a period of testing the opposition the visitors started to notched up the goals. As the final score shows fitness was an issue for the non professional hosts, having said that, Brendan Barker along with Simon Hoskin and Neil Austin created many breaks but were unable to put ball between the goal posts.

During the second half HBU had a change to dinghy Porto’s goalkeeper a clean sheet with a penalty but Phil McVey failed to score after hitting the crossbar. The two HBU goalkeepers Dan Barton and Paul Nelson played to their best but this mountain was just too high to conquer.

HBU are away at CP Vic in Spain next month in there fifth European League match.

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