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MATCH OF THE DAY HIGHLIGHTS: CPD Y Rhyl 1879 3 Holyhead Hotspur 4

Rhyl 1879 (white) head for goal against Hotspur. All pictures by RICHARD BATES – huge thanks Richard

MATCH HIGHLIGHTS

CPD Y Rhyl 1879 3 (D Proctor 33 & 64, Reynolds 84)
Holyhead Hotspur 4 (T Owen pen 71, C Williams 74 & 88, S Murphy 78)

20 min: Hotspur’s Kyle Murphy is fortunate to escape with a yellow card for a high challenge on Calum Proctor

26 min: Rhyl’s Dylan Proctor runs into the box, lets fly with left-foot screamer but Guto Hughes brilliantly tips over

31 min: Proctor latches onto poor back-pass but is denied by Hughes, who is quick to close him down

33 min – GOAL: At last the Lilywhites edge ahead. Good cross from Lewis Hodson is converted into a goal by DYLAN PROCTOR’S diving header. RHYL 1 HOTSPUR 0

39 min: Hughes makes a double save. Firstly, he gets his body behind a Paul Fleming free kick, the ball balloons into the air and Tom Kemp meets full force on the volley but the keeper saves magnificently.

HALF-TIME: Rhyl 1 Hotspur 0

51 min: Reece Fairhurst blasts a free kick just wide for hosts.

58 min: Dylan Proctor’s volley on the turn misses by inches

Billy Holmes on a run for Rhyl 1879

62 min: Jamie McDaid makes Rhyl debut, replacing Hodson

64 min – GOAL: Sloppy defending from Hotspur. DYLAN PROCTOR nips in ahead of Tomos Owen and runs clear before sliding the ball past Hughes for his 28th goal of the season. RHYL 2 HOTSPUR 0

69 min – Three substitutions by Hotspur change the game: Cory Williams, Jacob Godsman-Pilling and Shay Murphy replace Kane Roberts, Ifan Emlyn Jones and Kenleigh Owen.

71 min – PENALTY: Cory Williams is tripped in the area and Hotspur score from their very first effort on target. TOMOS OWEN converts from the spot.

74 min – GOAL: Holyhead are now a team transformed. CORY WILLIAMS applies a close range finish to make it 2-2.

78 min – GOAL: James Phillips sends over an amazing cross from the right and sub SHAY MURPHY slots home at the back post. RHYL 2 HOTSPUR 3 – unbelievable!

84 min – GOAL: Rhyl pour forward. Calum Proctor crosses high from the right and SAM REYNOLDS heads home. RHYL 3 HOTSPUR 3

88 min – GOAL: Hotspur grab the winner. Corner is swung over from the left, the ball is headed back across goal at the rear stick by Tomos Owen and CORY WILLIAMS finds the net. Four shots, four goals in a 17-minute period from the visitors. RHYL 3 HOTSPUR 4

90 min+: Yellow card for Hotspur keeper Hughes after he pushes the ball away to waste time when a Rhyl player throws it to him.

FULL-TIME: Rhyl 1879 3 Holyhead Hotspur 4

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