C.P.D GWALCHMAI
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Sat 12 Jan 2013  ·  Division 1
CLWB PEL DROED - GWALCHMAI
C.P.D GWALCHMAI
3
0
Llangefni Town
THREEasy does it

THREEasy does it

gareth allman14 Jan 2013 - 22:07
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Gwalchmai 3- 0 Llangefni Town

A bitter northerly wind chilled Maes Meurig for todays encounter with Llangefni Town, our first league fixture in a while.

With Paul Bryant being ruled out for the rest of the season with a reoccuring knee injury the line up was shuffled slightly.
Kenny and the back four remains unchanged, whilst Saxon replaced Bryant to join Allman, Craig and Paul in the middle. James and Scruff ran the front line.

Gwalchmai set the tone from the off, dictating the play and dominating. It was this early posession that saw the ball work its way from Jon at right back across the park to the left wing where a ball was whipped in to the back post where Craig Evans intelligently pulled the ball for James Burgess to slot home, 1-0 after 4 minutes.

Gwalchmai continued to dominate with both full-backs finding plenty of space, the midfield was bossed by Allman, Paul and Craig allowing Saxon to spread the play on numerous occasions. On 10 minutes Gwalchmai doubled their lead as Kenny Hughes launched the ball forward into Allman's path as he pulled the ball across the six yard box for Craig to dummy and let Paul Rowlands slot home from close range, 2-0.

There was no rest-bite for the visitors as Gwalchmai went for the jugular and attacked coninuously. Some excellent work by the back four switched the ball to the left once again where Scruff put the full-back in knots, eventually crossing to Allman at the back post to slot home.

The game was out of sight for the visitors and this saw they revert to a 4-5-1 formation almost admitting defeat but looking for damage limitation. Gwalchmai continued to press and dominate but the game became more condenced in the centre of the park and passes were forced to nil effect. Half chances by Steve Sinclair, Allman, Saxon and Scruff went begging and it remained 3-0 at the break.

HT 3-0

The second half picked up where the first left off. Gwalchmai continued to dominate and create half chances. The visitors demonstrating some resolute defending. Chances went begging by James Burgess on more than one occasion, Steve Jones (came on at 60 mins) also squandered a couple of chances, Steve Sinclair missed a header from 12 yards from a corner and numerous shots were sent high, wide and hansome. Liam Ewing in the visitors goal was fast off his line to rescue his back line on more than one occasion and had a solid game between the sticks.

In the final third of the game the visitors shuffled again and caused some threat. The #10 was excellent today and his endless workrate deserved more. Kenny Hughes did well to clear danger, however only half chances were created as Gwalchmai seemed to lose their shape. Craig Evans was forced to play at centre half as Steve suffered a back injury.

The coaching staff could see the visitors creating space and Gwalchmai losing shape and therefore changed the formation to 4-4-2 with Paul and Steve.J playing out wide. This settled the storm.

There was no change in scoreline, FT 3-0.

Today for the first 25 minutes we were excellent and dominated the play with a high tempo. Possibly the 3 early goal was our nemesis as we took our foot off the pedal and became complacent at times. We missed numerous chances, but at least we could afford to miss them having notched the early 3! The back 4/5 were solid yet again despite having little threat, but thoroughly deserved the cleansheet.

It was good to play a long overdue league fixture and especially win. We look to take our new year form into our next fixture as we welcome Llanrug United to Maes Meurig, who will be a much tougher ask.

It must be noted that despite scoring 9 past Cefni in two meetings that they have come on leaps and bounds since the beginning of the season and credit must go to Dyfed & Gareth Bins for that. They have some good young players who they must keep for the future.

It mus also be mentioned that todays officials were excellent. The referee in particular was outstanding - it was good to have a referee that you could talk to on the pitch, who explained his decisions when questioned and who looked to let the game flow at every opportunity. He wasn't interested in being the centre of attention - excellent.

Gwalchmai Man of the Match: Paul Rowlands - currently in very good form!

Match details

Match date

Sat 12 Jan 2013

Kickoff

14:00

Attendance

75

Competition

Division 1
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