Croesyceiliog 2 Cwmbran Town 1

Daniel Clouth's close range effort on the half hour mark gave Croesy all three points on a cold evening at Woodland Road on Wednesday.
Although this game was a local derby personally it didn't feel that way due to the number of non local players in the Cwmbran squad.However Croesy could not really care who they were playing as they picked up three points following Saturday's disappointing defeat to Taffs Well and they started the game much the better of the two sides.Chris Watkins had a very good first half without being on the score sheet and he fired in the first shot on six minutes,however after latching onto Jamie Jenkins cross field ball he fired high over the Cwmbran crossbar.
Croesyceiliog took the lead after seventeen minutes and it came as no surprise when it came following a Jenkins corner,as Croesy looked dangerous every time Jenkins swung in a corner.Jenkins swung in a corner to the far post and Mike Dewar rose highest to head home giving Richard Jeffries no chance in the Cwmbran goal.Croesy's lead lasted just a minute though as Cwmbran equalised straight from the restart,Sikami Kambiri's long ball over the top saw Raney Duncan react first to the ball and slot past John Bailey giving the Croesy keeper no chance.Croesy didn't let this affect them though as they went close to regaining the lead soon afterwards,firstly Jenkins tested Jeffries with a thirty yard effort that the Cwmbran keeper tipped over when a yard either side of him would surely have resulted in a goal.Zac Osbourne then had a shot tipped over by Jeffries on twenty five minutes following Watkins knock on to Osbourne just inside the penalty area.Croesy scored the winner after thirty minutes,a good run by Ricky Coffe resulted in Watkins feeding the ball across the goal for Clouth to tap home from inside the six yard box.
Croesy started the second half well and Watkins nearly added a third just two minutes after the break,good work by Coffe and Callum Miles ended with Watkins shot beating Jeffries but the ball going over via the crossbar.Cwmbran were rightly reduced to ten men ten minutes into the second half when Uma Ogbodo kicked out at Dewar off the ball right in full view of the assistant referee.Fidelis Chime should of been sent off for the visitors eleven minutes later when he threw a punch at Jenkins in full view of the referee who seemed fit to only produce a yellow card.
Cwmbran had a lot and of the play towards the end of the game without really testing Bailey,their best chance came with seven minutes remaining but Bailey denied Duncan with a fine save after Duncan had outpaced Paul Brown.
Croesy saw out the remaining minutes to hang on for three vital points and the news that Maesteg Park had drew was good news as well before Saturday's crucial game against Maesteg,as Croesy are now six points and eight goals better off than Maesteg though they have played two games more.