AFC Waverton Wasps 6 v 2 Castrol Athletic

Chester & District League (25 April 2010)

Waverton Scorers (season's total in brackets)

Matt Simpson  3 (7)

Matt Sheen  2 (41)

Robbie Foster  1 (10)

Coach's MoM  -  Matt Simpson

Supporters' MoM  -  Matt Bannaghan

Report

After last week's Semi-Final victory (making it much harder than it needed to be!) it was back to league action for the Wasps, with the small matter of a first League Title to win! In order to take an unassailable lead at the top, Waverton needed to win two of their final three league games, and despite another small scare at the start they chalked up the first of these victories fairly easily against a Castrol side who will be going down to League Two next season.

The Wasps started brightly, but once again squandered a whole host of early chances, as a result of which the Castrol team started to play with a bit more confidence. It was still against the run of play however when Castrol took the lead, with an excellent strike from the edge of the box, after Waverton had only half cleared a corner. Despite this setback though the Wasps continued to play good approach football, but somehow managed to keep failing to finish off their numerous good moves. At one point, after about 15 minutes, the Sky statistics would probably have read "Castrol 1 shot, Waverton 12 shots" but amazingly the away side still held a one goal lead.

It still seemed inevitable however that the floodgates would open, and after Matt Simpson eventually slotted home the equaliser after 20 minutes it was one way traffic for the remainder of the half and unsurprising that Matt Sheen and Robbie Foster added two further goals to take Waverton into the half time break with a 3-1 lead, an advantage their overall dominance had more than deserved.

With a comfortable lead the second half was much less eventful, and far less stressful for the long suffering Waverton management & supporters. The two striking Matts had both added a second to their tallies mid way through the second half, making it 5-1, before Castrol pulled back a second consolation goal after the only real lapse all game from the Waverton defence (who'd all performed much better and more calmly than in last week's SF). The final few minutes saw the Wasps largely sitting on their comfortable lead, and the only real event of note was Matt Simpson scoring his hat-trick goal to make it 6-2 at the final whistle.

So, just two league games to go (Princes Villa & Newton) and Waverton need just one more victory from these to ensure they beat Boughton into second place and secure the league title. The Princes Villa game next weekend could see them over the finishing line.