WILLIAM HILL ELIAS CUP

By McCann Dave

BRO BAG FINAL PLACE & LLANGOED BOOK SEMI DATE WITH lLANFAIPWLL

There were two significant ties played in the William HILL sponsored Elias Cup last Saturday. In the quarter-final stage, Llanfairfechan welcomed Llangoed and District fot a place in the semi, whilst Valley entertained Bro Goronwy with a place in the Final at stake.

Llangoed, a much improved team, as last week’s defeat of leaders Bro Goronwy showed, have added consistency to their play and take renewed confidence in to games. They stunned their hosts by taking a fifth minute lead, Craig Jones scoring for the second successive Saturday. Leading scorer Wayne Thomas matched his feat when he doubled lead [20].
The hosts battled hard to get back into the game but were unable to find the net as half-time arrived, and within a minute of the restart the contest was over as. Llangoed increased the lead with Wayne Thomas notching his second. Llanfairfechan, to their credit, kept plugging away and were rewarded ten minutes from the end with an Arron Davies strike.
Llangoed will now play Llanfairpwll in the semi for the right to meet Bro Goronwy in the final.

Bro having enjoyed a two nil verdict at Valley where their task was made easier when with just over a minute gone the hosts were reduced to ten men, the match official; brandishing a straight red.

FULL REPORT courtesy of Paul Schp;es

Sat 30th January 2016
Elias Cup Semi-Final

Valley Athletic 0
Bro Goronwy 2 Barry Roberts 33, Cole Whittle 71.

SWEET REVENGE AS BRO BOOK CUP FINAL SPOT

An added spur of remembering the loss to the same opponents in last seasons Elias Cup Final drove Bro to another Cup Final appearance.
Bro came away from Valley pleased with booking a Cup Final berth, defeating Athletic by 2 goals in what turned out to be a comfortable passage into the Elias Cup Final.
The match was only a couple of minutes old when the hosts, and holders of the Elias Cup, were immediately a man down as forward Tommy Jenkins was showed a straight red card for explicit language towards match official Heinz Broering.
Luke Roberts tried to make up for the deficit, on numerous times showing some good attacking play only to give Bro's birthday boy in goal, Jonny Sweetser-Hawkes, catching practice at best.
The visitors controlled play and soon were creating chances in front of James Waltons goal.
Andy Williams dragging his low shot wide ahead of Andy Swindells going on one of many mazy runs but unable to keep the ball from clearing the cross bar.
Callum Thomas should have found the back of the net but his flicked effort past the stranded keeper was cleared off the goal line before Bro Goronwy finally took a deserved lead after 33 minutes, and it was through Valley old boy Barry Roberts.
Quick on his feet from a cleared corner, the full back whipped in a curling 25 yarder that flew into the bottom corner of the net to put the visitors fully in control of the Semi-Final tie.
Bro continued to dictate play but Athletic kept in the game by keeping Goronwy at bay.
Williams firing a shot across the goal line, Cole Whittle cutting in from wide before missing the target and Thomas watching his shot saved when clean in on goal should have made the half time score line a bigger margin.
Justin Williams could have levelled on the stroke of the interval but couldn't direct his chip from out wide into the back of the net.
Half-Time 0-1.
Walton had to throw himself at full length to push Williams volley around the post as Bro Goronwy looked to finish the tie off early after the break.
Chances were kept to a minimum as Bro kept sensible possession to thwart the hosts.
Justin Williams seemed to be Athletic's only hope up front but had to watch his strike saved low down by Hawkes feet at the near post.
It didn't look to be striker Andy Williams day in front of goal as his snap shot thundered back off the upright before youngster Cole Whittle sealed the cup tie on 71 minutes.
Increasing in confidence as the game went on the pacey winger stepped up to show some excellent wide play against the tiring defence.
Andy Swindells used his experience to read a pass into the defender and intercept before twisting and turning and laying the ball wide to Whittle, who skipped past a couple of defenders before sending a low shot firing into the corner of the net.
Williams still had time to sky high and wide on the run from only a couple and yards out and then agonisingly watch his goal bound header cleared off the line in the final stages as Bro ran down the clock with no major scares.
Manager Lee Potter was extremely happy to be in the Cup Final but will want to continue the promising season and use it as a starting point in booking a few more final spots in the upcoming months.
Full-Time 0-2.

Pic : Bro's Andy Williams (blue/black) escapes from Valleys Jack Peters.

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