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The first break-through of the game came when Luke Humphreys scored the 100th goal to find the Trefnant net this season, Luke marking that milestone in a very fitting way as he opened the scoring with a superb outside of the foot finish from just inside the box that flew over the keeper and into the far corner of the net.
Chris Williams was disappointed not to have scored on the fifteen minute mark, heading just wide of the goal from 6 yards after a brilliant Dan Porter cross that followed a quick corner routine between Porter and Danny Roberts. Porter had the next chance as he dragged a shot wide after being teed up by Pat Hinchcliffe who had juggled his way into the box.
Llandyrnog's second goal came on the back of some unusual circumstances as Chris Williams, atoning for his earlier miss, headed the ball uncontested from 12 yards only for Trefnant's Russ Vaughan to reach up and push the ball off the line, the ball then dropped to Luke Humphreys who tapped in from two yards but the whistle had already gone. It seemed likely that the Trefnant defender would be receiving his marching orders, especially when he put his head in his hands and all but confessed to the infringement in the immediate aftermath, only for the referee to tell the guilty party that the ball had crossed the line from the initial header. Credit to the referee as the decision was as sensible as it was lenient, there was no need to send the little man off.
Wellies scored his second and Llandyrnog's third goal shortly thereafter as Trefnant's failure to clear the ball following a tame cross resulted in the ball falling to the Dyrnog midfielder to stroke home from 12 yards. Number four was hot on it's heels as Danny Roberts and Dan Porter combined to great effect again, Roberts knocking the ball out wide to Porter and then storming into the box to convert Porter's whipped cross with a downwards header.
The home pressure continued as Pat Hinchcliffe nicked the ball in front of the away Keeper and turning his shot goalwards from a tight angle only to see his effort bounce back off the outside of the upright. The Trefnant goalkeeper was busy again, stopping smartly with his feet from Dan Roberts drilled shot. The ball smacked off the woodwork again like Ike's fist off Tina's skull from a Luke Humphreys' looped shot that came about on the back of a good burst into the box from Pat Hinchcliffe.
There was a moment of joy for the away team though as Trefnant pulled one back to make it 4-1, my notes aren't very helpful here as they only say "No idea who, no idea how!". During the after game pint at the The Golden Lion Russ Vaughan was kind enough to tell me that Alex Webster held the ball up well before rolling the ball in to the path of Fran (I want to say Fran Healy but that's the lead singer of Travis and I don't think that's right), who hit it well and left Tom Foulkes in the Dyrny goal with little chance.
That was the half.
Now the second half will not be as detailed because the rain started coming down so I put away the notepad and Matty Lewis and Sean Roberts regaled us with tales of their adventures travelling the world, which I won't share here for fear of the site being closed down, leaving me a tad distracted and without the reminders I usually jot down.
I can definitely tell you that Pat Hinchliffe scored the only other goal of the game when he emphatically volleyed into the Trefnant goal from 15 yards out to add to his growing collection of impressive goals this season.
Danny Roberts was disappointed not to have scored a further two goals, miscuing a shot across goal and then having the ball taken off his toe by Lawrie Bell with the goal begging. Dan Porter went close a few times but his search for a goal was as in vain as my search for a goal last week was (the simile I originally wrote for this had to be changed as sometimes I can clearly tell I may have crossed a line, for the people that like the questionable material I'm sure you can figure out the path the original quip took).
The game was far more competitive in the second half as Trefnant created a few more chances of their own and came especially close when an effort from one of their attackers hit the bar and then fell into the path of their 14 year old winger who was unable to get his head over the ball and had to watch on in horror as his header sailed over the bar of the empty net.
The rain defeated me five minutes before the final whistle and I sought refuge in The Golden and I'm told missed a worldy of a save he had no right to make from the Trefnant gloveman to deny Dan Porter's top corner bound effort. There were also strong penalty shouts for The Blues as Craig Jones was felled in the box by Russ Vaughan but the referee decided there was no infringement.
My Man of the Match award goes to Chris Williams who was a controlling influence on the game and barely gave the ball away as he continued to play in the understated style of Michael Carrick. Dan Porter and Pat Hinchcliffe deserve a mention too as the Trefnant team struggled to contain the pair.
The Llandyrnog side was as follows:-
Tom Foulkes
John Jones, Russ Moorcroft, Emyr Jones, Tudur Morris
Pat Hinchcliffe, Phil Hinchcliffe, Chris Williams, Danny Roberts
Luke Humphreys, Dan Porter
Subs - Mally Hughes, Adam Lloyd, Craig Jones, Chris Evans
I only took two photos, the one above and one that is blurrier Japanese porn.
Thanks for reading.
Paul
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