Pictures John Hopkins
A crowd of 727 witnessed the blue’s biggest home win of the season as they dismantled Radcliffe by 4 goals.
In an even first half, the blues took the lead in the 24th minute as Dylan Vassallo scored his first for the club, expertly finishing past the Radcliffe goalkeeper after racing onto a clipped ball over the defence from Scott Duxbury.
The second half was all Rylands as goals from N’Mai, Neild and Pratt took the game away from the visitors.
Radcliffe had started the second half brightly but 2 goals in 3 minutes on the hour killed the game as a contest.
Kelly N’Mai doubled the blues lead in the 60th minute as he smashed in a rebound after the goalkeeper had initially made a brilliant save from N’Mai from Cal Dolan’s deep freekick.
3 minutes later the game was over as a contest as N’Mai latched onto a long throw to take the ball to the by line before cutting it back to James Neild to sidefoot an easy finish past the goalkeeper.
Radcliffe’s best chance of the game came from a freekick, taken by Navarro but this was expertly saved by the very impressive Joel Torrance in the Rylands goal.
The icing on the cake of a brilliant day for the blues was provided by Harry Pratt as he passed the ball into the goal from Vassallo’s cross 4 minutes after coming onto the pitch in the 79th minute.
RYLANDS
Torrance, Hockenhall, Duxbury, Mustoe, Egerton, Furman, Mantack, Neild, Dolan, N’Mai, Vassallo
Subs – Hunt, Pratt, Leitch-Smith, Cookson
RADCLIFFE
Rose, Evans, O’Brien, Joyce, Smith, Thornley, Grovosti, Adams, Vaughan, Grant, Karacan
Subs – Navarro, Oyibo, Piggott, Thompson, Mercer
