Celtic recorded a rare win at the Marston’s Stadium when they scored late on to progress into round 2 of the Cup. Both sides had a couple of chances which both failed to take. However with 5 minutes to go Celtic grabbed one of their chances to seal the result.
On Saturday in a re-arranged friendly we played Swansea League side Ynystawe. We ran out 6-3 winners with both sides scoring some excellent goals. Patrick Finneral should have scored after 8 minutes, he beat a couple of players as he got into the box but could only shoot straight at the keeper. We took the lead on 14 minutes when a quality move down the right saw Patrick Finneral cross for Noah Daley to score at the second attempt, the keeper having saved his initial effort. Rory McCreesh saved a certain goal diving to his right to save a goalbound effort. Then on 40 minutes we went two up, a great ball from Kieran Parsons found Patrick Finneral on the right, he brought the ball under control and fired a shot from the edge of the area past the keeper. 5 minutes later Patrick was fouled just outside the area and Adam Llewellyn scored with a left footed free kick. A great strike from all of 30 yards by Llewellyn made it 4-0 on 47 minutes. Patrick Finneral then added his second before a defensive error allowed a response from Ynystawe. Youngster Morgan Gardner turned a hit a left footer from the edge of the area to make it 6-1 with 20 minutes to go. Ynystawe replied from the kick off to make it 6-2 before Cai Owens netted deep into stoppage time tom make it 6-3
The Reserves plus a number of first year youth played at Croeserw in their first warm up match. Jamie Jones and Richard Cooling scored the goals in a 2-0 win and it was encouraging that half a dozen first year youth boys got a run out and acquitted themselves well.
Welsh Premier league bound Penybont won 4-0 last night. It was 1-0 at the interval with Luke Borrelli scoring. Curtis Hutson made it 2 early in the second half with further goals coming amongst the glut of substitutions. A good run out against last season’s undefeated champions.
We were two down at half time after Goytre scored on 18 and 27 minutes. It looked as if we were heading for a big defeat when Goytre scored a third on 47 minutes. However the players responded and Noah Daley reduced the arrears on 65 minutes but we were unable to get the second until the 86th minute when Morgan Freeman scored. We secured a draw with a Sean Hanbury goal in the 90th minute.
Noah Daley scored twice in the first half but Bridgend Street came back to draw the game. Next Saturday we visit Goytre Gwent in the next friendly
Sean Hanbury on his return from Carmarthen netted a hat trick in our 5-1 win at Penrhyncoch. Pat Finneral and Noah Daley were also on target.
