Football Association Trophy Second Qualifying Round - THE MATCH

Willenhall Town 0-6 Nuneaton Town

Adam Walker 29

Eddie Nisevic 60

Paul Spacey 79

Robert Foster 82

Chris Dillion 89

Robert Foster 90

'Hit for Six' - Official Match Report

Nuneaton showed why they have managed to qualify for this season’s FA Cup, showing their class and dumping Willenhall Town out of the FA Trophy.
The first chance came on 8 minutes, when Adam Walker headed wide from a cross, whilst 2 minutes later a good challenge from Chris Porter cleared the danger after some sloppy passing from the home side.
Nuneaton came even closer to breaking the deadlock on 13 minutes, as a Gareth Dean header hit the post following a corner from the right, whilst another effort from Walker was just wide 4 minutes later.
Chances for Willenhall were few and far between as their 5 man defence did well to withstand a lot of flowing passing from Nuneaton. But a quick break on 20 minutes saw a Jamall Pinnock shot take a deflection before going out for a corner.
The influential Walker came close again on 24 minutes when his inswinging corner deceived everyone, only the cross bar keeping the ball out the net. But 5 minutes later he finally ended Willenhall’s plucky resistance, when he headed in at the back post, following a good cross from Eddie Nisevic.
After James Armson had shot into the side netting for Nuneaton, Willenhall had their best chance of the game. Sean Pugh doing well to perfectly control a high ball into the box, before turning and shooting at goal, only a good acrobatic save from Darren Acton keeping Nuneaton ahead.
Acton did well again on 41 minutes, as his sliding challenge dispossessed Pinnock after the striker had picked up a poor back pass from Stuart Pierpoint.

Half time: Willenhall 0 Nuneaton 1

On 53 minutes, Pinnock couldn’t get an effort on target following a good cross from the left, but from here on in Willenhall’s defence was really tested.
On the hour mark a neat through ball to Lee Moore saw his shot saved by Amritjoyt Kler, but seconds later Nuneaton went 2-0 up, as Nisevic evaded several Willenhall challenges, before breaking into the area and calmly slotting past Kler.
The final 15 minutes saw a barrage of efforts rain in on the Willenhall goal. With a volley from Pierpoint crashing off the cross bar before Nuneaton added a third. A square ball across the box was hit in by Paul Spacey, that being his first touch of the game.
It was 4-0 on 82 minutes, as substitute Rob Foster curled an effort into the top corner from the edge of the box, leaving Kler with no chance.
Finally, 2 goals right at the end of the game completed the scoring. Firstly a ball played low into the six yard box picked out Chris Dillon, who had enough space to turn the ball into the net, meaning all three Nuneaton subs had scored.
There was enough time for Foster to add his second goal, as he powerfully ran past the tiring Willenhall defence and hit a low shot into the net.

Willenhall line-up: Kler, Roofe, Brown (Boswell), Perry, Griffiths, Porter, Morton (Eagles), Wills, Pinnock (Curtis), Pugh, Ryan.

Nuneaton line-up: Acton, Oddy, Nisevic, Noon, Dean, Pierpoint, Armson (Spacey), Walker, Moore (Dillon), Marsden (Foster), Hadland.

Attendance: 335