A.F.C. LLWYDCOED

Llywdcoed travelled to the Causeway for their first ever visit to Welsh League newcomers UNDY and returned home without the result they deserved.

AFC Llwydcoed Manager Mr Mark Tawton recalled Captain Lewis Holder and Leon Bansal. The opening exchanges were competitive. Llwydcoed settled early Richard Morgan and Christopher Banfield combining UNDY were unsettled and gave way some free kicks for some tackles because Llwydcoed were in charge. Lewis Holder and John Marczak found each other to make UNDY’s defenders feel the pressure. UNDY’s defence was the busier at this stage Llwydcoed were on top thanks to Leon Bansal and Matthew Doherty who was winning possession from the majority of his challenges. UNDY were finding possession difficult, the work of Llwydcoed’s team play was superb they looked the team on top of the league. Gradually UNDY began to create some attacking play through David Sinden and Gareth Callimore. After a short period of pressure UNDY won a penalty against the run of play, Llwydcoed defender James Doherty was adjudged to have clipped the UNDY player, up stepped UNDY’s James Barnes and Llwydcoed goalkeeper Martyn Phillips rose to the occasion to pull off a superb save. UNDY were beginning to look dangerous when they did attack Llwydcoed responded and created a fantastic move out of defence. Matthew Doherty brought the ball forward, Christopher Banfield played a fantastic ball across the UNDY defence and John Marczak missed the cross by a bootlace to score. What a chance could have been “Goal Of The Season”

HT 0-0

The second half saw Llwydcoed control the early stages their defence was solid. Llwydcoed made two early second half substitutes Adam Walters replacing John Marczak and Andrew Cayford replaced Luke Davies. UNDY were being controlled by Llwydcoed’s midfield of Matthew Doherty, Leon Bansal, Christopher Banfield and Jonathan Mason the team who looked mostly likely to score were Llywdcoed, UNDY were being kept at bay by the visitors team ethic. Llwydcoed almost opened the scoring after a mix up in the UNDY defence, the ball was just cleared in time as Adam Walters moved in. Llwydcoed made their final substitution Chad Rombach replacing Leon Bansal. UNDY had not given Llwydcoed any problems in the second half but they were awarded a free kick for a similar offence as in the fist half. Llwydcoed set up their defensive wall UNDY’s Gyles Thompson hit his free kick at the wall and the ball crept under the Llwydcoed players as they jumped, a devastating goal for Llwydcoed to concede. Llwydcoed responded and almost scored through Chad Rombach. UNDY just survived to clear and that was the story of the match. Llwydcoed had done enough to gain a result, their commitment to the cause was superb, every player working for each other.

FT
UNDY ATHLETIC 1
AFC LLWYDCOED 0