Post by Kev Panther on Nov 26, 2013 10:19:20 GMT
STRONG FINISH KEEPS SKELMERSDALE ON TOP
SKELMERSDALE UNITED 3 KING’S LYNN TOWN 0
By Neil Leatherbarrow
It is a well-known fact locally that Skelmersdale United manager Tommy Lawson has his team fit and on Saturday his side reaped the benefits. After fighting out a close game that nobody could have predicted the outcome of with an hour gone, Skelmersdale dominated the last half-hour, to the extent that they finished up comfortable winners.
King’s Lynn had arrived in Lancashire looking to win and they made Skelmersdale defend in the early stages, however, for the first twenty minutes despite conceding possession, they defended well. United goalkeeper Ryan McMahon helping out with a couple of good saves from Massiah McDonald and a 25 yard scorcher from King’s midfielder George Thomson.
Gradually Skelmersdale asserted. Ashley Dunn put a shot over the away crossbar, then after a clumsy challenge by King’s defender Ryan Fryatt on Shaun Tuck, Kenny Strickland put a free-kick just wide of the far post.
It was from a counterattack that the visitors got their best chance of the game in the 35th minute, McDonald heading wide from an Andy Hall cross.
Skelmersdale went back on the attack before the break and King’s goalkeeper Alex Street made a good save under his crossbar from an Alan Burton shot.
The opening minutes of the second-half saw a chance each, McDonald heading onto the roof of the Skelmersdale net, and at the clubhouse end Street saved low to left from a Dean Astbury shot.
Skelmersdale got a scare in the 57th minute. King’s left-back Jordan Yong got forward and crossed, striker Robert Duffy headed, but the ball hit the crossbar and the loose ball was soon grasped by McMahon.
Skelmersdale upped their game. Yong got a yellow for a late tackle and from the free-kick Strickland sent Street sprawling to his left, the ball was then fired against the King’s crossbar and Matty Hughes ran in to gobble up the rebound with a thumping shot into the net from about ten yards.
There was only one team in it from that point onwards.
In the 69th minute the ball went down the right and Hughes cross was only partially cleared, Dunn ran onto the loose ball around the 18 yard line and blasted the ball into the King’s net, at the same time deservedly earning himself the Rosbotham’s Timber & Building Supplies Man of the Match award.
When in the 82nd minute Tuck harassed Fryatt into giving him the ball it set off a move that made it 3-0, Tuck played it to Jack Laird and he slipped it cleverly into the inside-left channel from where Adam Morning cut across the backline and hammered the killer blow inside Street’s right-hand post.
King’s generated a brief skirmish at the end that saw Greg Mills fire across the face of Skelmersdale goal, but the game was decided by then.
After the match Tommy Lawson gave credit to King’s Lynn saying; “King’s Lynn are a good side that play football in the right way, but that makes our win all the more creditable.”
SKELMERSDALE UNITED: McMahon, Strickland, Holden (Morning, 55), Hardwick ©, Wylie, Dunn, Hughes, Burton (Jackson, 79), Astbury (Laird, 77), Tuck, Ince Subs (not used) Ahmadi, Nicholson
KING’S LYNN TOWN: Street, Clarke R. ©, Yong, Lee, Fryatt, Thomson, Hall, Quigley (Mills Greg. 69), Duffy, McDonald (Mulready, 63), Goodfellow (McGovern, 67) Subs (not used) Clarke E., Jones
Referee: Ian Gittens
Attendance: 226
SKELMERSDALE UNITED 3 KING’S LYNN TOWN 0
By Neil Leatherbarrow
It is a well-known fact locally that Skelmersdale United manager Tommy Lawson has his team fit and on Saturday his side reaped the benefits. After fighting out a close game that nobody could have predicted the outcome of with an hour gone, Skelmersdale dominated the last half-hour, to the extent that they finished up comfortable winners.
King’s Lynn had arrived in Lancashire looking to win and they made Skelmersdale defend in the early stages, however, for the first twenty minutes despite conceding possession, they defended well. United goalkeeper Ryan McMahon helping out with a couple of good saves from Massiah McDonald and a 25 yard scorcher from King’s midfielder George Thomson.
Gradually Skelmersdale asserted. Ashley Dunn put a shot over the away crossbar, then after a clumsy challenge by King’s defender Ryan Fryatt on Shaun Tuck, Kenny Strickland put a free-kick just wide of the far post.
It was from a counterattack that the visitors got their best chance of the game in the 35th minute, McDonald heading wide from an Andy Hall cross.
Skelmersdale went back on the attack before the break and King’s goalkeeper Alex Street made a good save under his crossbar from an Alan Burton shot.
The opening minutes of the second-half saw a chance each, McDonald heading onto the roof of the Skelmersdale net, and at the clubhouse end Street saved low to left from a Dean Astbury shot.
Skelmersdale got a scare in the 57th minute. King’s left-back Jordan Yong got forward and crossed, striker Robert Duffy headed, but the ball hit the crossbar and the loose ball was soon grasped by McMahon.
Skelmersdale upped their game. Yong got a yellow for a late tackle and from the free-kick Strickland sent Street sprawling to his left, the ball was then fired against the King’s crossbar and Matty Hughes ran in to gobble up the rebound with a thumping shot into the net from about ten yards.
There was only one team in it from that point onwards.
In the 69th minute the ball went down the right and Hughes cross was only partially cleared, Dunn ran onto the loose ball around the 18 yard line and blasted the ball into the King’s net, at the same time deservedly earning himself the Rosbotham’s Timber & Building Supplies Man of the Match award.
When in the 82nd minute Tuck harassed Fryatt into giving him the ball it set off a move that made it 3-0, Tuck played it to Jack Laird and he slipped it cleverly into the inside-left channel from where Adam Morning cut across the backline and hammered the killer blow inside Street’s right-hand post.
King’s generated a brief skirmish at the end that saw Greg Mills fire across the face of Skelmersdale goal, but the game was decided by then.
After the match Tommy Lawson gave credit to King’s Lynn saying; “King’s Lynn are a good side that play football in the right way, but that makes our win all the more creditable.”
SKELMERSDALE UNITED: McMahon, Strickland, Holden (Morning, 55), Hardwick ©, Wylie, Dunn, Hughes, Burton (Jackson, 79), Astbury (Laird, 77), Tuck, Ince Subs (not used) Ahmadi, Nicholson
KING’S LYNN TOWN: Street, Clarke R. ©, Yong, Lee, Fryatt, Thomson, Hall, Quigley (Mills Greg. 69), Duffy, McDonald (Mulready, 63), Goodfellow (McGovern, 67) Subs (not used) Clarke E., Jones
Referee: Ian Gittens
Attendance: 226