This weekend saw Llanfyllin return to winning ways against a tough Llanfair Reserves side, becoming the first team to beat Llanfair at
home this season.

The first half was impeccable from the visitors delivering arguably their best 45 minutes of the season. From the first whistle Llanfyllin were on top, dominating possession and looking dangerous with balls in behind the home sides back four. Llanfair rarely troubled the magpies with the back three of Moley, Mostin and Ryan winning everything.

The first real chance came within the first 15 minutes, with Lee Morris floating a good ball into the box for Zakh Ward to attack. Unfortunately his resulting shot was hit straight at the keeper, either side of him and it would have given the visitors the lead.
Luckily it wasn’t long after that the magpies dominance did pay off. A ball too the back post by Ward saw Martin Phillips get a decent shot away only for it to be saved. However, Lee Morris to react quickest and poke the ball under the keeper to make it 1-0.

The goal only buoyed Llanfyllin who continued pressing looking more likely to grab another, with the midfield trio of Lewis Alderson, Sam Jones and Martin Philips bossing the midfield. It was just over the half hour mark when Llanfyllin did double their lead. Ryan Jones knocked a long ball forward towards Ward who won the flick on, and Lee Morris was the quickest to react and latch onto the header. He the proceeded to drive into the box before calmly slotting the ball home to make it 2-0.

The visitors almost had another great chance just before the break only to be denied by the referee stopping the game when he could of realistically played advantage. Some great passing down he right by Sam Jones and Jack Morris saw them outplay 2 or 3 defenders, before playing the ball inside the 18 yard box to Ward who seemed to be clear through only for the referee to halt play for a foul on Sam Jones. The decision was the last action of the half meaning Llanfyllin went into the break deservedly 2-0 up, after and excellent first half.

After the break Llanfyllin continued where they left off, having the majority of the ball and creating the better chances. Lewis Alderson produced a great save from the Llanfair keeper, a ball in to the box so Alderson bring it down on his chest in the 6 yard box before attempting an acrobatic effort only for the keeper to tip it over the bar. Morris almost completed his hat trick from the resulting corner, only to see his thumping header strike the crossbar.

The best chance dropped to Zakh Ward, a terrific ball by Alderson so Ward go through one on one with the goal keeper. Only to completely mis-judge his and the goal keepers position, as he attempted to loft the ball over the on rushing keeper to see it harmlessly caught by the Llanfair keeper.

After the miss the game became a bit more evenly matched with Llanfair growing into the game producing some good goal keeping from Gareth Jones, and some equally good defending from the back 5 of Mozzy, Ryan, Mostin, Moley and Jack. Unfortunately Mostin had to go off injured and whilst the defence were adjusting to the change Llanfair seized the chance and grabbed a goal back. A throw in down the line wasn’t dealt with and allowed a Llanfair attack to play a ball behind the visitors defence for an attacker get on the end of an roll under Gareth Jones making it 2-1.

The goal led to a 10 minute spell of pressure from Llanfair as they began getting hold of the ball and creating some decent chances only to be continually denied by the Llanfylin back line. Llanfyllin managed to weather the storm before growing back into the game and start creating some more chances at the other end. Unlike Llanfair they managed to convert one of these chances, after a mistake by the right back knocking the ball into the air on the edge of his own box Lewis Alderson beat him to the ball in the air knocking the ball to Ward on the edge of the area. Ward took and early strike catching the keeper off-guard leading to the ball nestling in the back of the net restoring Llanfyllin’s two goal lead.

The last 15 minutes were very much a battle with both teams struggling to keep hold of the ball and both having some half chances. It was Llanfair who finally created a real chance and managed to reduce the deficit back to one with 5 minutes left. After a good bit of play down the right the ball found its way to the edge of the area, for one of the centre midfielder's to get a shot away and see the ball loop over Jones in goal to lead to a very nervy last 5 minutes for the visitors.

However, Llanfyllin stayed firm and saw the game out leading them to be the first team to take all three points away from Llanfair on their own ground. It also saw Llanfyllin do the double over their league rivals. Man of the match award went to Lewis Alderson for an all round hugely impressive game, which saw him involved in most of the positive play going forward.

LLANFYLLIN TOWN F C

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