Gloucestershire County League

Frampton United 0 Chipping Sodbury Town 2

CHIPPING Sodbury stretched their unbeaten start to the season to ten games with victory at Frampton United.

The first ten minutes were fairly even with a half chance to open the scoring falling to Chipping Sodbury's Danny Coombes, whose clear shot on goal from the edge of the box went well over the bar.

As the game progressed the visitors were using the pace of Coombes, Sam Jenkins and Kye Simpson to try to make the breakthrough, knocking long balls to the flanks and relying on good service into the box.

Frampton defended very well and cut out most of the crosses with keeper Scott Gearon playing his part on several occasions.

The best chance fell to the visitors after 35 minutes from a Coombes cross into the box from the right, which flew across the six-yard box with Justin Cattle only managing the faintest of touches.

Whatever was said in the home dressing room at half-time certainly worked as the Frampton side took the game to Sodbury right from the off.

Four minutes into the half a great shot from Matt Cook caught goalkeeper George Hale by surprise as the ball rebounded off of him to Chris Fower and, with the goal at his mercy, he hooked the ball at the target only to see a Sodbury defender fling himself across the goal and deflect the ball away.

At this stage Frampton were in charge and the visitors were struggling to keep them out.

In the 56th minute and against the run of play a long ball was pumped upfield by the visitors to Simpson on the left side of the box. He took a couple of touches before unleashing a superb curling shot that bent around Gearon and into the Frampton net.

Frampton still pushed forward and only a very good save by Hale prevented Cook from levelling the score.

The hosts felt they should have had a penalty when Steve Jackson went down in the box but it was turned away by the match officials.

A second goal from the visitors in the 81st minute, prodded home by Justin Cattle, took the stuffing out of the home side, but they were unlucky on the day.