Three nil suggests a comfortable win but two of the goals were scored in the closing minutes and the first was a penalty so it wasn't all plain sailing. 

As Ian Jones has been away he played to improve his fitness and it was he had the first effort on goal shooting wide on 8 minutes. Adam Beynon also shot wide on 10 minutes before the Porthcawl keeper made a fine save turning an Ian Jones shot onto the crossbar on 17 minutes. Porthcawl's best chances came after 21 minutes when they headed a free kick wide and on 37 minutes when they hit post from a right wing cross. 

We took the lead on 40 minutes when despite moving the ball away from goal Ian Jones was fouled, he got up to score the resultant penalty. Gareth Couch made an easy save from a long range shot in the early stages of the second half and we could have doubled our lead when Ian Jones headed a free kick across goal but his header went behind all the runners. 

With it being only 1-0 Porthcawl were still in the game but with a quarter of an hour to go it looked as though we had doubled our lead when Ian Jones went around the keeper to score but he was adjudged offside. 

With 6 minutes to go Luke Evans came on for Josh Cockings and Scott Bamsey for Shaun Best and with his first touch Scott shot from the edge of the area catching the keeper (and us) by surprise to score with a shot into the corner. Deep into added on time Ian Jones headed home a right wing cross to seal the win.

Lido side:
Gareth Couch  Aaron Keefe  Josh Cokely  Damon Thomas  Karl Roberts  Tom Wellington  Shaun Best  Adam Beynon  Lee Parfitt  Ian Jones Ali Walkley

 Subs
12 Scott Bamsey for Shaun Best 84
14 Corey Thomas for Damon Thomas 69
17 Luke Evans for Josh Cokely 84

One booking Karl Roberts 56

Match Report by Peter Reynolds

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