BRIGG TOWN FC BOW OUT OF THE FA TROPHY AT REDDITCH

Redditch United  5    Brigg Town  0 - MATCH REPORT BY BOB TAYLOR

Brigg travelled to face Southern Premier league opponents, Redditch United, in the F.A.Trophy competition but were without Liam Dickens and Ryan Paczkowski.  Anthony Bowsley and George Zuerner were also surprisingly omitted from the starting line-up.

Kicking up a significant slope in the first half, Brigg matched the home team for the first forty minutes of the game but then conceded a crucial goal five minutes from the break when Chas Fisher failed to clear a through ball played to JERMAINE HYLTON, who then seized upon the opportunity to strike it into the corner of the net with a deflection. It was a bad time to concede but worse was to follow three minutes later when ASHLEY SIMMONS beat Rob Zand with a neat chipped shot from the edge of the penalty area to put the home team in a commanding position at the break.

Brigg were still in with a chance of getting back into the game for the first twenty minutes of the second half. Appeals for a penalty after Elliot Broughton was brought down from behind inside the penalty area were discarded and then the home team increased their lead in the sixty-fifth minute with an attack down the right wing ending with a cross into the penalty area for JERMAINE HYLTON to beat Rob Zand again with a shot which wrong footed the Brigg goalkeeper and literally trickled into the back of the net. The fourth goal came from the penalty spot thirteen minutes from time after Alan Lamb was penalised for a trip just inside the area, allowing   substitute KYLE PATTERSON the chance to follow up after Rob Zand saved the spot kick. Brigg were demoralised and the home team celebrated with the fifth goal two minutes later when the second substitute, DAVID BRIDGEWATER, slammed the ball into the back of the net after a through ball completely split open the defence.

BRIGG TOWN:     Zand, Fisher, Matthews, Lamb, Hellewell, Jacklin, Broughton, Ashton,    Grimes, Thewliss, Buttle. Subs: Collishaw,(70) for Thewliss,  Zuerner, Wright, Bowsley, Iggleden.

Attendance:   193.