Football

Unlucky 13 for St Asaph as Llannefydd inflict first defeat of season on league leaders

Llannefydd celebrated a great win today against unbeaten leaders St Asaph

TIER 4 NORTH WALES COAST EAST PREMIER DIVISION

Llannefydd 3 (Mathew Jones 57, Llion Morris 77, Jared Roberts 84)
St Asaph City 0

Saturday, January 7, 2023

Unlucky 13 for St Asaph as they lost for the first time in the league this season after 12 games without defeat.

Second-place Llannefydd were the team to beat them, Gwyndaf Pritchard’s side closing the gap on Saints to four points with a game in hand.

The visitors’ James Williams missed a penalty in a first half which also saw Asaph hit the crossbar.

Llannefydd also had opportunities, but come the interval it remained 0-0.

Playing against the wind in the second half, the hosts became stronger and braver and scored on the counter-attack with Matty Jones finding the net not long before the hour.

St Asaph rallied well and hit the post, but on the break in the 77th minute Llion Morris took advantage from a poor goalkeeping clearance and tapped in the second for the home team.

Llannefydd had numerous other chances after that and scored late on with Jared Roberts pouncing on the counter to put the issue beyond doubt.

TEAMS

Llannefydd

Rhys Johnson
Guto Dafydd Owen
Nico Clwyd (Matthew Blake 77)
Jared Jones (Morgan Owen 90)
Elgan Roberts
Sam Lewis
Llion Morris (Simon Roberts 85)
Ed Jones
Andrew Thomas (Jared Roberts 57)
Ciran Jones
Matty Jones (Steffan Williams 84)

St Asaph City

Luke Jones
Callum Murphy (Simon Fawcett 66)
Daniel Williams (Harrison Roberts 84)
David Hayes (David Algieri 83)
Lee Jones
Ellis Blench
Liam Grayson
Tyler Joyce
James Williams (Nathan Jones 77)
Ray Knight (Josh Brown 71)
Ryan Potts

Referee: Tony Samuel

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