Goytre - 4

Merthyr Saints - 0

GOYTRE recorded yet another clean sheet on Saturday as they effortlessly walked all over a bottom-of-the-table Merthyr Saints side and netted four goals in the process.

Goytre have now played three league game to date, and the Welsh Division Three side have still yet to concede any goals.

Prior to Saturday's game, Andy Walsh's brace ensured Goytre beat the Aberbargoed Buds 2-0 in mid-week, so the mood was buoyant going up against what must be said were a poor Merthyr side.

Club chairman Paul Greenhalgh explained, "The Saints are currently bottom of the league for a reason. It was not a true test of form for us, but you can only play what is put against you, and from the first whistle to the last it was all one-way traffic."

Eight minutes in and Goytre's Matthew Cameron played a pass to Graham Mason who beat his marker in the penalty area and struck to give the keeper no chance.

Following the early strike a couple of subsequent sitters were missed by Goytre's Andy Walsh and Lee Grimes.

However, it wasn't long before Kevin Wallace broke up a Saints' attack, chipped the ball to Grimes, who run from the halfway line, side-stepped the keeper and slotted home to make it 2-0, despite the offside appeals by the Merthyr players.

The only other chance of the half fell to Cameron whose absolute belter of a shot was just pushed aside by the Saints' keeper. Yet, such was the shot's power, it left the unfortunate goalie with a dislocated finger as the ref blew for half-time.

Greenhalgh said, "Although we dominated in the first-half, we didn't make the most of all the opportunities that came our way. Our lack of urgency was made worse in the second-half as for the first 15 minutes both teams kicked the ball back and forth in a lethargic middle of the

park display that does no-one any favours."

The apathetic deadlock was finally broken when a corner by Craig Joliffe found Walsh, whose shot rebounded off the crossbar into the path of sub Phil Melville, who with his first touch of the game headed home to make it 3-0.

A minute later the game was put out of sight by Goytre, when from the kick-off, Wallace won the ball, played it to Mason, who chipped it over the defence for Joliffe to run onto and lob it over the keeper to make it 4-0 and game over.

This Sunday Goytre play Newport YMCA at Plough Road in the Gwent Senior Cup. Kick-off is a 2.30pm.