A strong wind spoiled the game and made it difficult for the two goalkeepers, one in each half, who had difficulties in kicking the ball either out of their hands or on the deck. The Clarets as a team made more of the advantage when with the wind behind them.
The game was only a few minutes old when we took the lead. After a good build up the ball was passed through into Marc Pugh’s path and as the
Wigan were offering very little except for a couple of corners that came to nothing and there was no real threat to the
A 1-0 lead at half time to take into the second half when we would have the wind behind us. The only problem was initially that we kept over hitting the final pass and there were some that greyhounds wouldn’t have caught.
The goals had to come and they did starting with one from Alex Taylor. The
The young Clarets were coasting now and
They all slotted in well and we went four up with another peach. Good work down the right by Kyle Lafferty and Hanley saw the ball released to Nicky Platt who rolled it on to Jones on the edge of the box.
Jones sent an absolute screamer into the bottom left of the corner bringing with it more celebrations for the popular Jones.
A 4-0 win, wins against
The team today was: Mark Crossley,
We are next in action next Saturday morning, kick off 11:30 a.m. when we take on Doncaster Rovers in the Alliance Cup – that is if Gawthorpe is fit.
League Table (before today’s games)