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Rushall Olympic 1 Nantwich Town 4 - Report and pictures

Nantwich Town recovered from an early goal down to storm to a deserved 4-1 victory at Dales Lane.

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The home side had made a bright start to the game and took an early sixth minute lead when Joe Hull was on the end of an inch perfect free-kick from Kristian Scott to head past Krystian Burzynski.

The visitors though went close when a powerful shot from Tobias Mullarkey was headed clear by Hull and Harry Clayton`s twenty yard shot was pushed behind by Dan Crane.

At the other end a good flowing move from the home side ended with O`Neill-Martin`s shot saved by Burzynski.

The goal that the visitors had been threatening duly arrived in the twenty seventh minute when Matt Bell`s cross was headed home by Joel Stair and the comeback was complete just three minutes later when the impressive Sean Cooke walked through a static home defence to place his shot into the corner of the net.

Three minutes later a cross from Jordan Davies was volleyed wide by Casper Hughes but the Pics were very nearly back on level terms when Dominic Dell`s flick from a Scott corner was only just over the top and then debutant Wes Atkinson fired in a powerful shot which was well saved by Burzynski.

A minute into the second half and the visitors stretched their lead when Kaiman Anderson rounded Crane and slotted the ball into the empty net.

The visiting goalkeeper Burzynski received a yellow card for bringing down Stan Mugisha and Harry Clayton almost made it 4-1 but Charlie Duke cleared off the line.

The scoring was completed five minutes from time when substitute Steve Jones rounded off a fine move involving Hughes and fellow substitute Clayton McDonald to roll the ball past Crane and round off a fine afternoon for the visitors.

Teams

Rushall Olympic: Dan Crane, Charlie Duke, Wesley Atkinson, Kristian Scott, Joe Hull, Sam Whittall, Stan Mugisha, Kartel O`Neill-Martin, Andre Landell (AJ Adelkan 52), Dominic Dell (Will Hancox 52), Jayden McCalla.

Unused substitutes: Ciaran Best,, R`Mar Murray, Jono Brown

Nantwich Town: Krystian Burzynski, Troy Bourne (Arnold Baxendale 76), Jamie Morgan, Joel Stair, Tobias Mullarkey, Matthew Bell, Casper Hughes, Kaiman Anderson (Clayton McDonald 83), Harry Clayton, Sean Cooke (Stephen Jones 79), Jordan Davies

Unused substitutes: Sam Hall, David Forbes,

Attendance: 181

Man of the match: Sean Cooke (NANTWICH TOWN)