4-0 away at Llangollen

6th February 2010

First time we have played Llangollen and first time at their ground for most of us. A good setup and a warm welcome in a very nice location.Weather was fine and the pitch looked well considering the recent rain.

Starting lineup Pearson, Williams C, Kehoe, Gibbs, Austin, Williams R, Gwynedd, Gowans, Thomas, Evans, Roberts DG subs Craven, Roberts K, Lloyd, Mitchell, Jones G.

From the off we pushed forward at pace and on 3 minutes a deep cross fell to Yws Gwynedd who rifled home to put us one up. This really set the hosts back on their heels and we started to spread the ball wide through the middle and put them under a lot of pressure. We created many chances through Loggs and Gowans interchanging and the returning Darren Thomas  all continually shooting on goal. A flurry of corners came  and as our pressure mounted and they palyed a high dangerous line Robbie released Loggs who sidestepped his man to lay a superb ball out wide right to Darren, he beat his man to the bye line and produced a delicate far post cross that the inrushing Danny Glyn gleefully headed home. The game got scrappy with many niggling fouls and strange decisions against both sides, Robbie had already been booked for an inocuous tackle and then adjudged a second; a relatiation from their No.8 went unnoticed but Robbie's reaction drew a 2nd yellow and a red dismissal to put us down to 10 men just on half time. Suffice to say Shaun and our defence had been rarely troubled but dealt well when needed.

2nd half we adjusted the formation but still in the ascendancy we continued to threaten and with their very high line we often beat the offside trap. Good work down the wide right by Kehoe saw a fine cross from Danny which Loggs met with a guided header over the keeper, 3-0.

Lee Craven and Kev Roberts came on for the excellent two Darrens - Gowans and  Thomas. An odd altercation saw Dixon sent to the stands, as I said some strange decisions throughout. Lee was quickly involved as he charged down a loose back pass the keeper's low clearance went straight to Loggs near the half way line, he took a touch looked up and hit a Beckhamesque goal beyond the keeper from fully 45 yards, goal of the match to put us 4-0 up.

Kev Lloyd came on for Danny Glyn and whilst they did create one or two late chances they came to nothing and the game ran down at 4-0.

A very competent if one sided performance but you can only play the team in front of you; Llangollen have done well to reach this league and started well, hopefully they will start to pick up points again and climb up the table.

Good results elsewhere for us as Flint only salvaged an injury time draw at Denbigh; Buckley also drew as did Penrhyncoch, but Llandudno beat Ruthin 6-2