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The Reserves supplemented by
Shaun O'Leary and Justin Williams who were returning from injury and Karl Lewis
who is unavailable for Wednesday's match at Croesyceiliog overcame a determined
Neath Athletic side.
We settled the quicker and
had the better of the early exchanges and our first chance came after 15 minutes
when a Karl Lewis cross was met by Simon Witheridge beyond the far post, he
played it back in to Neil Hendra but his first time effort went wide.
We took the lead on 20 minutes
when Shaun O'Leary took a free kick wide left and his cross was turned in at the
far post by Karl Lewis. Neath then had a series of attacks where good defending
by Matthew Beynon and Josh Cokley kept them out. Neil Hendra created space in
the box to shoot but the Neath keeper made a fine save tipping the shot over for
a corner. On 34 minutes a Neath free kick from 30 yards beat Josh Cokley but
smacked against the crossbar and flew to
safety.
We went two up after 41 minutes
when Ali Walkley picked the ball up in midfield and moved forward and his shot
from the edge of the area sailed over the keeper and dipped just under the
crossbar. Neath had a good spell in the early stages of the second half but
failed to trouble Josh Cokley.
Neil Hendra and Remi
Whitelock combined to send
Remi down the left but his cross into the box was just cleared ahead of the
incoming Hendra. Remi then took aim from 30 yards and the ball just went wide of
the post. Ceri Cook scored the third with 6 minutes to go, receiving the ball
from Dan Williams he got into the area wide right, cut in and drew the keeper
and calmly slotted the ball past him for his first senior goal.
Lido side Josh Cokley Ali
Walkley Justin Williams Matt Beynon Warren Davies Shaun O'Leary Remi
Whitelock
Karl Lewis Simon Witheridge
Shaun Best Neil Hendra.
Subs: Dan Williams for
Remi Whitelock 78
Ceri Cook for Shaun Best 75
Steve Hughes for Simon
Witheridge 60
Report By
Peter Reynolds |
