Match Details
Date: Saturday 21 January 2017
Result: 3-4 (won)
Starting XI – Nathan Aldridge, Sean Jones, Paul Griffiths (c), Jack Richards, Nathan Williams, Dion Gibbins, Andrew Jones, Jamie Foulkes, Craig Roberts, Nic Jones, Alex Williams
Substitutes – Darnell Prescott , Josh Valentine, Sam Roberts
Goalscorer(s):
Alex Williams (3)
Nic Jones
MOM: Alex Williams
For the second successive game our first team eventually won 4-3 but needed a dramatic late goal to do so.
The team started the game on the front foot and were finding room at the back racking up plenty of early possession, however despite all the early possession the we seemed to lack a cutting edge. It was the Albion who eventually broke the deadlock when the lively Alex Williams finished well from a good move that had the quality in the final third. It wasn’t long after this that Williams grabbed his and Cefn Albion second goal to put us comfortably two nil up, the albion were in control but still seemed rusty following the Christmas break. Just before the half time the home team drew back a goal back when an effort from outside the box took a deflection which steered it past the diving Aldridge in goal who could do much. On the stroke of half time we were awarded a penalty but Sean Jones, who rarely misses sent the ball crashing it onto the bar. 1-2 HT
For large parts of the second half the lads seemed to be going through the motions and appeared rather sluggish and when the hosts were awarded a dubious penalty decision things could have got worse. However, from the resulting spot kick Nathan Aldridge got down well to his left to palm the ball out. The two goal lead was soon restored when Alex Williams collected his third of the afternoon to cap a hatrick for the afternoon. As the second half progressed it was clear that this performance wasn’t our finest with and mistakes being made all over the park and when Brymbo pulled a goal to make it 2-3 it was set up an interesting last 10. To be fair to the home team came in search of the equaliser and they were rewarded in the 90th minute drawing level at 3-3. From the restart the referee signalled there was 10 seconds of play left..... step up Nic Jones who only took 8 of those seconds to smash in the winner.
Not a vintage performance but first one back after Christmas. Three points is all that counts.
