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| Jimmy Mac looks on at his charges |
The game started fairly quietly with the both teams struggling to maintain a rhythm, the first real incident of note occurred just past the 10 minute mark when Llandyrnog's Danny Porter managed to find his way in to the book via a little dissent. Porter, in fairness rightly, felt aggrieved when he appeared to be fouled on the edge of the Hafal box. After cutting inside his man his standing leg was taken caught but with the ball within reach he stayed on his feet long enough to be bundled over by another defender. When play was waved on, Porter managed to charm the referee into taking his details for what is his second booking of the season.
The game came alive from that point on and soon after Llandyrnog seemed to have a legitimate penalty shout turned down. Brandon Keating beat the offside trap well and broke into Hafal's box before cutting it back to Craig Jones who poked the ball goal-wards only to see the ball kept out by an opposition arm before the goalkeeper was able to smother the ball.
At the back Llandyrnog where again restricting the opposition to very few chances, with the centre back pairing of Phil Hinchliffe and Russ Moorcroft dominating in the aerial battles and distributing the ball well to the midfield.
On 25 minutes Llandyrnog took the lead through Craig Jones, who after a period of sustained Llandyrnog pressure, managed to slam a half volley in off the post from ten yards out. The pressure grew from there and moments later Danny Roberts struck the bar with a cross into the box that the Hafal goalkeeper appeared to lose the flight of.
In the last few minutes of the first half, the referee's cards were out once again as Tudur Morris and Liam Lloyd were both booked for an off the ball scuffle (very tame by Summer League standards) following a Morris foul. The last action of the half took place when Danny Jones saved smartly from a Garmon Hafal header that looked destined to hit the back of the net.
The second half got underway and soon enough Llandyrnog went close again when Tom Evans struck the bar with an in-swinging corner that caught the keeper out before Llangynhafal cleared their lines. The pressure built and built for Llandyrnog and Brandon Keating was the next to go close when his effort was headed off the line by the Llangynhafal number 3. My man of the match Patrick Hinchcliffe (only 15 or 16 years old and playing like a Summer League veteran) was denied shortly after when the Llangynhafal keeper dove well to his right to paw out Patrick's powerful header.
The pressure finally told as Danny Porter scored his third of the season and Llandyrnog's second of the night. Danny Roberts won the ball back out wide from Jack Crompton (that's the name give to me anyway) before feeding Porter who finished calmly from 8 yards after turning his marker in the box.
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| An out of focus Porter slots past the advancing Hafal keeper. |
There were a few more chances for Llandyrnog but unfortunately no more goals in what turned out to be a fairly routine victory.
The squad was as follows:-
Daniel Jones, Tudur Morris, Russ Moorcroft, Phil Hinchcliffe, Mally Hughes, Craig Jones, Patrick Hinchcliffe, Tom Evans, Danny Roberts, Brandon Keating, Dan Porter
Subs - Luke Humphreys, Chris Evans, Jamie Dowell
To anyone who is interested in my blurry photography, here are some more pics:-
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| Brandon drives his invisible car into Hafal keeper |
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| Russ Moorcroft gets rid |
Paul
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