South Wales Alliance League

Division 1 East

Saturday 4th May 2024

Kick Off 14.30 Actual 14.34

Nelson Cavaliers 1 Tongwynlais 2, attendance 40

11’ 0-1

57’ 0-2

90’ + 1, 1-2

@ Wern Park

Caerphilly Road

Nelson

CF46 6NL

No Admission or Programme.

Today’s game was 4th versus 6th in the league table. It was the last game of the season for Nelson, but if Tongwynlais were to win here today, then beat top of the table Cwmbach Royal Stars in their final game, then they would be the ones taking that fourth place. Tongwynlais got off to the perfect start, going ahead after eleven minutes, finishing high into the near top corner of the net, after a through ball beat the offside trap. They doubled their lead twelve minutes into the second half, when a cross from wide on the left was left by both ‘keeper and defender, but it dropped to a striker at the far post, who finished with a cushioned volley. They could have added a third minutes later, but a 25 yarder hit the crossbar. Nelson got a consolation goal a minute into stoppage time, heading in at the far post, from a corner on the left and they could have grabbed an unlikely looking point in the dying seconds, when they had a headed goal disallowed for offside and another effort cleared off the line, with the ‘keeper stranded, but the visitors held on for the win.

Home to Nelson Cavaliers is Wern Park. The changing rooms/car park are as you enter off Caerphilly Road, whilst the pitch is down below, hidden from sight. It is railed on both sides and along the majority of both ends, with the dugouts on the side of the steep grass bank that runs along the near side, where there is a small section of three steps of wooden ‘terracing’ (people sat on it), but the view of the pitch was badly obscured by the dugouts.