Toolstation NCEL Division One
Worsbrough Bridge 0-5 AFC Emley
Tom Brennan celebrates after scoring for AFC Emley in the 5-0 win at Worsbrough Bridge. Picture: Mark Parsons
Rampant AFC Emley stormed to the top of the Division One table with a five-star win at Worsbrough Bridge.
Tom Brennan’s double helped Emley go a point clear of Pontefract Collieries having played a game extra.
It took just 11 minutes for Ash Flynn to find the net. Robbie Graham’s controlled ball over the top found Flynn, who beat the offside trap before lobbing Aidan Tyas with aplomb.
Brennan bagged a brace to seal a 2-0 win against Knaresborough last week and grabbed Emley’s second midway through the first half. He rose highest to meet Jordan Townend’s corner at the back post.
There were chances a plenty for the visitors to add a third; Sam Jerome put two headers wide and Flynn scooped over from close range.
Tom Robinson got the crucial third goal shortly before the break, and how. His first goal in an Emley shirt may just be the best he’ll ever score in an Emley shirt, after controlling with his chest and hooking the ball over his head into the bottom corner, skilfully.
It didn’t take long for Emley to make it four after half-time. Jerome, who missed two clear cut chances in the first half, profited from an unusual Brennan assist to head into an empty net for his sixth goal of the season.
The second half went flat for a while but was revived when the energetic Matthew Jackson and Ashley Scully replaced Flynn and Jordan Coduri.
Jackson had the ball in the back of the net after Robinson’s through ball, but the linesman’s flag was raised.
The forward was then denied in style. Jackson’s goal-bound long range ripper was parried by the fingertips of the diving Tyas.
Tyas couldn’t keep out Callum Charlton’s close range flick with five minutes to go after Liam Schofield’s perfectly executed low cross.
And Jason Carney rescued McLachlan’s clean sheet late on as Thomas Guest looked to have squeezed the ball in.
The Teams
Worsbrough Bridge: Tyas, Long, Black, Stuart, Singleton, Thompson, Mellor, Calan Rollinson, Guest, Manson, Pleasants. Subs: Severn, Popplewell, Wiltshire, Egan, Connor Rollinson.
AFC Emley: McLachlan, Carney, Schofield, Graham, Jerome, T Brennan, Coduri, Townend, Flynn, Robinson, Charlton. Subs: Scully, Jackson, Noteman, Kilner, Senior.