Football: Llandudno FC ready for Penrhyncoch test

Feb 11 2010

LLANDUDNO visit Penrhyncoch this Saturday looking to repeat last September’s 5-0 demolition of the mid-Walians.

Tudno are certainly in fine goalscoring form, having hammered Ruthin Town 6-2 at the weekend, but they will be wary of the capabilities of fifth-placed Penrhyn.

"It’s a long trip and they (Penrhyncoch) have had a lot of good results this season," said Seasiders joint manager Grant Montgomery.

Tudno hope to have calf injury victim Neil Coverley back in the fold for the clash at Cae Baker.

Meanwhile, the Maesdu Park side recovered from 2-0 down at Ruthin to breathe new life into their Huws Gray Cymru Alliance League title challenge last Saturday.

Tudno’s outstanding start to the campaign had gone slightly off the rails after a 1-0 home league defeat at the hands of Mold Alex on January 27, followed by a 4- 0 loss in a friendly at Colwyn Bay in midweek, but they showed their bouncebackability at the Memorial Fields.

"After going 2-0 down, I felt we were experiencing recoil from the defeats against Mold and Colwyn Bay; we just weren’t at the races in that first 20 minutes," added Montgomery.

"But I felt when their second goal went in, it was the jolt we needed. We scored almost immediately afterwards and never looked back."

Ruthin started impressively, scoring two well-orchestrated goals through Wil Roberts on 15 minutes and Kevin Garland after 21.

But midfielder Gareth Evans led the fightback when after good inter-play with Joe Morgan he raced into the box and fired into the bottom corner.

And on 34 minutes it was all square, ex- Wrexham prospect Luke Carding’s tame daisy-cutter finding its way into the net to the embarrassment of the home keeper.

If the equaliser was less than glamorous, then the goal which put Tudno 3-2 up at half time was totally the opposite.

Craig Hogg found Alan Roberts on the right and he passed to Lee Thomas whose cross on the run was headed back across the keeper into the far corner by Danny Hughes.

After the break a Thomas penalty made it 4-2 before Ben Dews added a cracker and Gwyn Peters cannily notched the sixth away goal.