Flowing football sees Park Villa to victory (From Barry And District News)

Flowing football sees Park Villa to victory

7:40am Thursday 4th February 2010

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PARK VILLA 6 CADOXTON 1

IN ARCTIC conditions Park entertained Cadoxton at the Athletic ground on a pitch that allowed Villa to play some flowing football.

It was Villa who started off the brighter and took advantage of Caddy's high line. Lee and Sean Parish were seeing plenty of the ball and created several chances which Park failed to deliver.

With the return of the influential Mike Hodge in the middle of the park alongside Craig Thomas, Villa's wide men Paul Giles and Sean Parish would see plenty of ball.

Thomas and Hodge were constantly looking to feed them and they linked up well with Jeff White and Lee Parish.

Villa's back four of Tony Barnett, Ben Jones, Richard White and Charlie Davies were coping well with Cadoxton's attacks.

The first goal came from a quick throw in between Paul Giles and Jeff White, enabling Giles to put his usual inch perfect cross for Thomas to head home a well worked move.

With Thomas picking his passes well, the second soon followed after Thomas put Giles through on goal and his clever shot was parried by the keeper into the feet of the on-rushing Lee Parish to bury home.

Hodge winning the midfield tackles found Richard White who put in Sean Parish to once again outpace the Cadoxton full back, to unselfishly pick out Jeff White who smashed the ball into the back of the net.

Giles was then brought down in the penalty area with the referee having no hesitation in pointing to the spot.

Villa had a queue of volunteers to take the penalty but there was only one winner and Jeff White found the bottom corner to make it 4-0.

Number five came from another marauding run from Lee Parish who went one-on-one and coolly slotted the ball past the keeper.

Villa totally dominated the first half with White, Giles, the Parishes,Thomas and Hodge all having plenty of possession and missing chances. Villa could easily have been ten up at half time.

However Villa were in the same position last time they played Cadoxton and know they have a never-say-die attitude.

The second half saw them make some substitutions and positional changes and you could see a difference.

Villa thought the game was over and stopped playing, allowing Cadoxton into the game.

Villa's back four were now brought into the game and challenged for every ball, Barnet and Jones winning headers and White and Davies looking strong. Keeper Dave Niblett still had to be on his toes when called upon.

Villa's midfield legs were looking tired leaving too much room in the middle. Cadoxton pulled a goal back with a wonder strike and probably the goal of the game.

Villa lost Thomas and Ben Jones to injury and then later Hodge to tiredness, being replaced by Oliver Rhys Jones, Rob Meldrew Newman and Amos Geary.

Villa got back into the game and scored their sixth with a great move involving Jeff White, Amos Geary and Sean Parish to be finished off by Ollie.

All credit to Cadoxton who battled throughout and looked very impressive at times in the second half.

A good defensive performance from Villa in the second half prevented Cadoxton scoring more with solid displays from Ben Jones and Richard White in particular.

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