The kindest thing you can say about our performance was that it was a bad day at the office. No one could put their hand up and say they played well.

We went behind in the fifth minute, ironically from our free kick on the edge of the Aberaman area. Michael Waters instead of knocking it to the far post tried to place it between two Aberaman defenders to Carl Payne on the right hand touchline. It was blocked and knocked to the half way line where their striker made ground and crossed into the area for Jon Phillips to score from just inside our area. Michael Waters had a shot blocked just after this but we were finding it difficult to string two passes together.

On 21 minutes Carl Payne was brought down in the box but the referee ignored a good shout for a penalty, the ball was cleared but Scott McCoubrey picked it up, made ground and chipped the keeper who did well to backtrack and tip the ball over for a corner. The corner was cleared and a long ball forward found Mattie Davies with a one on one and he buried the second goal. We were two down and both goals came when we were caught on the break and short at the back. Carl Payne was unlucky when with his back to goal he tried a bicycle kick, the ball hitting the crossbar bouncing down before Aberaman cleared the danger. We were awarded a penalty after 32 minutes, the only two people who thought this was a penalty were the ref and linesman. Up stepped Mark Jones and his shot to the keepers left lacked power and was easily saved. We won a couple of corners but failed to hit the target from them and just before half time Carl Payne made ground and found Sam Wade on the right, he hit the ball at pace across the goal but there was no one in support and the ball went out for a goal kick. Without playing well in the first half we'd hit the crossbar and missed a penalty.

The second half continued in the same vein, the third goal on the hour was again scored by Mattie Davies who chased a long ball forward more in hope than anything else as we had three defenders and the keeper back but none of the dealt with it and he shot into the empty net from the edge of the area. We used all three subs but no one was able to provide a spark in the worst performance I've seen this season.

Lido side:
Rory McCreesh  Ian Turner  Michael Waters  Justin Williams  Shaun Morgan  Karl Lewis  Tomos Wellington  Scott McCoubrey  Mark Jones  Carl Payne  Sam Wade

Subs:
12 Ian Jones for Shaun Morgan 62
14 Corey Thomas for Carl Payne 69
15 Luke Borrelli for Mark Jones 78

Booking: Carl Payne 24

Att: 70

Match Report by Peter Reynolds

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