F.C.Nomads v Caernarfon Boro.

Action from the NWCFA Junior Cup

F.C.Nomads of C.Q.
vs.
Caernarfon Boro

At Connah's Quay Sports Center
Saturday 13th November 2010

FC Nomads 7 Caernarfon Borough 2

FC Nomads win through to the Quarter Finals of the NWCFA Cup with an impressive 7-2 win against Caernarfon Borough. FC Nomads have now scored 26 goals in 3 games in this competition.

A match that started of as a tough affair between two very strong teams ended in a 7-2 win for FC Nomads. The early goal, so aften a trademark of FC Nomads was this time scored by Caernarfon as Steve Hughes beat the offside trap on 9 minutes to give Caernarfon an early lead. The equaliser came in the 37th minute when Lee Molynuex got on the end of a corner to beat the keeper with a header. That was the way it stayed until half time and both managers thought that the game was going to go to the wire.

Caernarfon took the lead again in the 62nd minute when Craig Williams bought down the Caernarfon striker and the referee pointed to the penalty spot. Stuart Tindale made no mistake with the spot kick and gave Caernarfon a 2-1 lead. Just 3 minutes later substitute and man of the match Kev Smart hit the bar with a superb free kick and Chris Taylor was on hand to head the rebound into the net to make it 2-2. Caernarfon then found themselves on the back foot when just 2 minutes later Kev Smart took another shot which the keeper could not hold allowing Lee Molyneux to get his 2nd of the game and give FC Nomads the lead for the first time. The game then closed up again as Caernarfon looked for an equaliser, this didn't come, instead in the final 7 minutes FC Nomads lay seige on the Caernarfon goal and 4 goals in the final few minutes. In the 83rd minute Kyle Reid knowcked the ball into the area for Lee Molyneux to control the ball with his chest, knock it over the defenders head and smash the ball into the net for what was the goal of the game and possibly one of the goals of the season. Shades of Gazza in '96 sprang to mind. In the 85th minute it was 5-2 in a comedy moment when the goalkeeper rolled the ball out to clear the ball not realising that Kev Smart was still behind him, Smart came from behind and took the ball before slotting it into an empty net. In 4 minutes we had two contrasting goals from the sublime to a 'you've been framed' moment. On 88 minutes a through ball by Mike Hopkinson (or perhaps a hopeful shunt up field according to Dave Smith) found Lee Molyneux on the half way line, he then ran the length of the half into the box before cooly slotting the ball home to make it 6-2. The final goal of the game came in the 90th minute when Dave Parsonage was being hounded by the keeper and a defender, he managed to beat them both, leaving them in a heap on the floor before scoring a close range effort. The final score was FC Nomads 7 Caernarfon Borough 2, a scoreline that perhaps didn't reflect the game as a whole but in football it those teams that can manage the entire 90 minutes who end up successful. FC Nomads now face tough trip to Trearddur Bay for a quarter final tie.