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Report: Bootle 6 - South Liverpool 2

Report: Bootle 6 - South Liverpool 2

Bootle Football Club30 Jul 2017 - 00:22
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Hamilton's double helps Bucks continue unbeaten pre-season. Words: Connor O'Neill Picture: Paul Moran

Bootle continued their unbeaten pre-season run with a comprehensive victory over South Liverpool at the TDP Solicitors Stadium.

If the Bucks last outing against Maghull was all about their first half performance then this game was all about their second half performance as Phil Stafford and Joe Doran’s side ran in five of their six goals in the second period.

In truth however, it was the visitors who started the brighter, with Ally Woodcock somehow finding the side netting after latching onto a long ball and rounding the onrushing Jordan Gidley - Woodcock then saw a goal-bound effort blocked by Ste Hoy.

Bootle, who had found the first thirty-minutes tough going, finally began to settle and play the type of the football that had served them so well last season, and their frustration soon turned to relief when Ste Jones put the Bucks ahead on thirty-eight minutes.

Michael Ordish pulled the ball back to Jones on the edge of the South box, before the forward, who netted 25 times last season, let fly with a left-footed effort that flew into the top corner of the net.

One became two in the second minute of the second half, when Ryan Cox turned home Johnathan Swatton’s cross before a trialist put the Bucks 3-0 up on fifty minutes, when he raced clear before firing past the helpless South goalkeeper.

South, to their credit however, rallied well, with former Buck Cameron Dalton heading over from a cross. But minutes later, Dalton would make no mistake, this time heading home from a corner.

But the Bucks responded with Josh Hamilton collecting his first of the evening. James Howell released Swattton down the left before the full-back pulled the back to Hamilton who fired into the roof of the net.

And the free scoring Bucks added a fifth when the trialist who finished for the Bucks third finished from close range for his second of the game.

Hamilton himself then collected his second when he clear coolly rounded the keeper before finishing from an acute angle after being played in by Jones.

South did manage to add a second in the closing stages but it was to be no more than mere consolation.

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