Gloucestershire County League

Thornbury Town 4 Kingswood 0

GLOUCESTERSHIRE County League leaders Thornbury Town entertained Kingswood in a game that was a credit to the league played in a great spirit from both sides and only nine fouls throughout the game.

It was a game where the home side had the lion’s share of possession that saw Kingswood defending their goal for much of it.

Thornbury are well organised side with all their players very comfortable on the ball and who like to drive forward at every opportunity.

In the early stages of the game it was Kingswood who pushed forward and a long ball from Adam Eldridge was headed just over by Matt Poole. Town’s reply was a couple of shots from Dave Jones and Marcus Wormwell that was hit well over the bar.

The first real scoring chance fell to the home side on eight minutes a cracking shot from the edge of the box by Nathan Sage that keeper Chris Fox did really well to keep out.

Town were pushing all the time and a great shot from Joe Guest was saved by Fox but it flew straight to Dave Jones but his control let him down.

A few minutes later Brandon Benjamin should have done better with a clear shot on goal that went past the upright.

Thornbury went ahead in the 29th minute from the penalty spot which stemmed from a great run into the box by Wormwell before being brought down; Craig Lancastle was given the opportunity from the spot and coolly slotted home.

The second goal for town had an element of luck about it as the ball was hit goal-wards took a deflection to Lancastle who fired home from close range.

The home side continued where they left off at half time and 2 minutes into the second half Lancastle hit a tremendous shot at goal from around 10 yards only to see keeper Fox pull off a fantastic save.

Kingswood rallied and from a break away were unlucky not to have pulled a goal back as Matt Poole’s shot beat Sheppard in the home goal but struck the upright and eventually cleared.

The visitors rallied and made several ventures into the Thornbury half giving the home defence some work to do.

Town should have scored again on 62 minutes when Tom Webb broke down the left squared the ball across the six yard box but Scott McLeod fumbled his kick.

Kingswood took 76 minutes before they had their first corner of the match and Town had to be at their best to get the ball away. Kingswood’s Jamie Packer hit the target with a good shot but Sheppard saved comfortably.

On 83 minutes, Town made it 3-0 a cracking goal from left back Tom Webb cutting back to edge of the box before unleashing a shot that flew into the bottom far corner Fox did get a hand to it but it made no difference.

Webb was involved in the last and final goal on86 minutes as he broke down the left pulled the ball back it was flicked on and reached Asher Budd who hooked a left footed shot past Fox from 12 yards.

With just a minute left in the ninety minutes, Fox pulled of another fantastic save to deny Brandon Benjamin.