LEAGUE TABLE
Saturday 12th August
National North |
Blyth Spartans
|
2 |
4 |
6 |
Boston United
|
2 |
2 |
4 |
Curzon Ashton
|
2 |
2 |
4 |
Bishop's Stortford
|
2 |
2 |
4 |
Farsley Celtic
|
2 |
2 |
4 |
Brackley Town
|
2 |
1 |
4 |
Hereford
|
2 |
1 |
4 |
Scunthorpe Utd
|
2 |
1 |
4 |
Peterborough Sp
|
2 |
1 |
4 |
Tamworth
|
2 |
2 |
3 |
Warrington |
2 |
2 |
3 |
Scarborough Ath
|
2 |
2 |
3 |
Chester
|
2 |
1 |
3 |
Alfreton Town
|
2 |
0 |
3 |
South Shields
|
2 |
0 |
3 |
Spennymoor Town
|
2 |
0 |
3 |
Chorley
|
2 |
0 |
2 |
Buxton
|
2 |
-1 |
1 |
Gloucester City
|
2 |
-2 |
1 |
Rushall Olympic
|
2 |
-2 |
1 |
King's Lynn
|
2 |
-3 |
1 |
Darlington
|
2 |
-3 |
0 |
Southport
|
2 |
-6 |
0 |
Banbury United
|
2 |
-6 |
0 |
King's Lynn Town have conceded three goals in each of their visits to Chester, the only difference on this occasion was that they were unable to score themselves!
It was a miserable day for goalkeeper Ronnie Sandford, making his on loan debut from MK Dons, who replaced the injured duo of Tommy Dixon-Hodge and Paul Jones.
The hosts started on the front foot and Lynn fell behind on seven minutes when Iwan Murray's corner found the head of Harrison Burke and his effort was only parried by Sandford with Zak Goodson turning home the loose ball.
Lynn rallied and had their best chances of the game came soon after with Tom Clifford heading wide from close range and shortly after seeing his free kick beating the wall but tipped around the post by home keeper Wyll Stanway.
On 25 minutes Ben Stephens tested Stanway but his effort was parried away.
Sandford redeemed himself to a degree on 27 minutes, managing to hold onto a Reece Daly shot.
Lynn started the second half brightly with a cross from the right forcing Stanway into a double save.
Moments later Lynn were two down. Sandford rushed out of his goal only to be lobbed by Kieran Coates and confusion between two Lynn defenders allowed Kole Hall to nip in and score.
Chester's third arrived five minutes from time when substitute Declan Weeks set up Murray who nutmegged Kyle Callan-McFadden before firing past Sandford
Chester: Stanway, Taylor, Burke, Goodson (Glandon 57)), Whitehouse, Earl (Weeks 59), Daly, Murray (Bott 90+5), Hall, Coates, Edwards. Subs: Weeks, Williams, Glendon, Heywood, Bott. Booked: Daly, Goodson. Scorers: Goodson 7, Hall 56. Murray 83
Lynn: Sandford, Ronan, Crowther, McFadden, Coulson (Bartley 76), Clifford, Hargreaves, Hughes (Smith 63), Stephens, Ponticelli, Barrett (Spence 56). Subs: Smith, Spence, Oke, Bartley, Fatadjo. Booked: Hughes
Attendance: 2137 (62 away)