This weekend saw Llanfyllin extend their unbeaten run to 6 games, after beating a title chasing Waterloo. Another win has Llanfyllin taking an impressive 16 points out of a possible 18.

The game was a very well contested match with both teams playing some nice football. The possession of the first 20 minutes was a pretty even split, with Llanfyllin defending extremely well and looking very dangerous going forward. However, Waterloo looked equally dangerous going forward creating some nice crossing positions only for the Llanfyllin back line standing firm.

The magpies began playing some nice football and creating some good opportunities, with Lee Morris going close with a strike using the outside of his foot from the edge of the area. The home sides best chances were coming from the wide areas, with both Jack and Paul Morris getting into some great crossing positions and putting some equally great crosses only for the Waterloo defenders to deal with them, or the resulting headers drifting just wide.

The next chance proved to be the vital one with The Magpies taking the lead. A long clearance from Mostin dropped over the visiting teams back four with Lee Morris reacting quickest getting to the loose ball. He then proceeded to nutmeg the two defender who tried to tackle him before driving into the box and rolling the ball past the last defender to striker partner Zakh Ward to stroke home past the goal keeper from 8 yards out, taking the pairs impressive season stats past the 60 goal mark with a high percentage being assisted for each other.

It was nearly 2-0 a few minutes later after some good work by Lewis and Martin found Jack Morris out wide, who put in a great cross what was headed just over by Ward.

After the goal Llanfyllin began dominating possession with the midfield trio of Lewis, Martin and Sam breaking up most of the Waterloo attacks and providing the balls forward for the front four of Lee, Jack, Paul and Zakh.

With the chances being created it wasn’t long before Llanfyllin doubled the lead. After some great work by Lewis Alderson to win a free kick about 30 yards from goal, Martin Phillips showed great initiative in clipping an early ball into the channel towards Ward and Alderson. A tiny touch from Alderson saw the ball evade the defender and drop into Wards path, who managed to get a faint strike on the ball to see it trickle beyond the stretching goal keeper into the far corner.

The goal came at the perfect time with only a couple of moments until half time, giving the hosts a 2-0 lead going into the break.
For a 10 minute spell after the break Waterloo dominated possession with them creating a few good chances only to be denied by goal keeper Gareth Jones, who pulled of a string of good saves along with some good defending by Mark, Liam and Mostin. The best chance for Waterloo to get back into their game saw the striker turn Moley before unleashing a great strike only to be denied by the woodwork.
The Magpies weathered the storm and grew back into the game and started creating chances.

The introduction of young Aaron Davies saw a change of shape with the home side reverting back to 4-4-2. Llanfyllin could have put the game to bed with both Morris and Ward having good chances, Morris was extremely unlucky not to grab a goal and was only denied by some great saves from the Waterloo goal keeper. Wards best chance however had nothing to do with the goal keeper as he tried an audacious lob only to be cleared off the line.

It looked as if these missed chances could come back to haunt the Magpies when Waterloo managed to pull one back from a corner. Llanfyllin failed to clear the cross what allowed the striker to nip in and head into the corner.

The last 10 minute could have been nervy for the home side but some resolute defending kept the visitors at bay, with their best chance coming from a Llanfyllin player. Jack Morris went for an attempted clearance only to see his header fly towards the top corner of his own goal, luckily Gareth Jones was alert and managed to tip the ball around the post.

Man of the match was Lewis Alderson for his determined performance.

Llanfyllin managed to hold on a record a deserved victory moving them up to 3rd in the league table with some big fixtures in the coming weeks, The Magpies look to build on their impressive recent form.

LLANFYLLIN TOWN F C

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