Llanuwchllyn 2-0 Gresford Athletic
Llanuwchllyn saw off Gresford Athletic 2:0 at home in the Welsh Championship, North section, round 6 on Monday evening. The hosts moved off zero points for their visitors, though neither side made much noise in the table after the result.
To be fair, the table positions told you what to expect before kickoff. Llanuwchllyn sat 13th with four points from five games, while Gresford Athletic were bottom of the pile at 16th, having lost all four matches so far.
The visitors' recent run reads like a catalogue of heavy defeats. Three of their last four results were multi-goal losses, including a 0:3 home defeat to Newport and a 0:5 thrashing by Brackley Rangers. Llanuwchllyn have been inconsistent too — three losses in their last five — but they did manage to beat Buckley Town 2:1 earlier in August.
And here's the thing about a clean sheet for the hosts. They had just conceded four goals to Newtown in their previous match, so keeping this one tight mattered more than the three points on paper.
The scoreline itself says little about how the game played out, since no minute-by-minute details were recorded. What we do know is that Llanuwchllyn avoided a second consecutive defeat while Gresford Athletic's winless streak stretched to five games across all competitions.