Cheadle Town 2-0 Daisy Hill

Cheadle Town's first league 'double' of the season duly came at the hands of this (mostly) comfortable victory over Daisy Hill.

Cheadle started the first-half with the same dose of energy and brio that had brought them the victory in midweek. Good combination between Mike Myers and Carl Buchanan resulted in the latter narrowly firing over the bar after just 5 minutes. He was to prove more productive with the effort that brought the opener on the quarter-hour mark.

Another flowing move saw Scott Flanagan turn the ball to the left-wing where an unmarked Carl Buchanan hit a crisp, first-time shot into the corner of the net...past ex-Cheadle 'keeper Danny Smith, starting his third game with Daisy Hill.

He had to pick the ball out of the net again on the 26 minute as Cheadle stretched their lead. Arron Riley's cross was flicked on by Barry Cotterill towards an unmarked Scott Flanagan who poked home from a yard out.

When Carl Buchanan hit the bar just a minute later a rout looked on the cards but then Cheadle went mysteriously flat. Whilst they never really threatened, the final ten minutes of the first-half belonged to the visitors in terms of possession.

And so it carried on into the second-half as Cheadle 'keeper Moores had to be first to a through-ball after 50 minutes. Cheadle got their act together - albeit without the flowing play of the first period - and almost went three-up after 66 minutes; credit to Danny Smith for snuffing out the danger after a goalmouth scramble.

Cheadle had a few breakaways in the final ten minutes that were snuffed out by the Daisy defence but - with no offence meant to Daisy Hill - we sort-of knew by then that this game was won.

Back-to-back wins and, as Trevor pointed out to us at the end of the match, back-to-back clean sheets. The rollercoaster is on the up again...speaking of which, we're at Blackpool next weekend!

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TEAM: Moores, Clarke (Hussain), B Roberts, Cotterill, A Roberts, Brocklehurst, Riley, Fellows, Myers (Brokenbrow), Flanagan, Buchanan. Subs: Brokenbrow, Hussain, Lindon