Brocton’s injury hit side started brightly and scored through Andy Harrison following up a Steve Bennett shot which was parried by keeper Pete McGuire for him to fire home from 2 yards. Castle Vale were jolted into responding to Brocton’s initial challenge and started to apply their own pressure with good moves across the pitch which saw Michael Shelper charging out of his goal only for the rebound of his attempt to clear falling to Malcolm Power who lobbed his first goal into the open net.

Castle Vale were now moving into another gear with attacking play but were always wary of Brocton’s attacks down the flanks with Miller making some good movement on the left and crossing for the front runners, but all of the attempts were eventually foiled by the Castle Vale defence. Both teams were playing end to end football but it was Castle Vale who increased their lead through Shane Benjamin who again found Shelper out of his goal attempting to clear a dangerous ball at the edge of Brocton’s penalty area.

Bennett appeared the most affective forward for Brocton has he continued to raid down the right side and on a few occasions tested the Castle Vale keeper but his efforts came to nothing.

Brocton were living dangerously at the back and again Benjamin exposed the frailty of the Brocton defence scoring his second goal just before half time with an excellent shot from 20 yards.

The second half started as the first, with Brocton showing some lively moves particularly through Steve Bennett who had keeper McGuire scrambling across his goal and saving a further shot within the first 2 minutes of the re-start. Castle Vale were alerted to Brocton’s early flurry and Benjamin reminded Brocton with a shot against the bar on 65 minutes which was followed by Castle Vale 4^th goal through good work again by Malcolm Power. Brocton’s injury hit defence, as Reeves was now also off the field was clearly exposed in the latter stages of the match and Benjamin added his 3^rd and Castle Vale’s 5^th. Brocton would not lie down however and mounted a rally in the last 10 minutes enabling Neil Rolston to fire in Brocton’s 2^nd goal from inside the penalty area.

Castle Vale 5 v 2 Brocton