Previous Meetings - With John Walker Saints Hit Ten Against Desborough Town

St Neots Town 10 Desborough Town 0

On Wednesday St Neots celebrated a very unique record of being unbeaten in the league home and away for twelve months. They marked the occasion twenty four hours early by ramming ten goals past the unfortunate Desborough who hold the current distinction of being bottom of the table. It was another quality display by the league leaders with twin strikers Stefan Moore and Shane Tolley each claiming a personal hat trick as their side scored five goals in each half. Desborough were blown away by the force and determination of the St Neots performance and although they had a couple of enforced team changes with Will Fordham suspended and Junior Kanuda nursing a slight hamstring pull there was little evidence of any change to the overall performance. Teenager Jordan Gent came into defence for his first senior appearance of the season and looked as if he had been there all the time and Lewis Hilliard slotted into Junior’s midfield holding role and pushed the strikers very hard for the man of the match tag.

St Neots were in control from the first whistle with the visitors opting for damage limitation from the start with just one player up front. Lewis Hilliard bedded into midfield got in the first shot that was only a foot wide and then Stefan Moore had his first effort deflected for a corner and saw his second – a header – rebound from a post. Webb also saw a fierce shot blocked but after twenty minutes the contest was decided as St Neots upped their rhythm to score four times in six minutes. Shane Tolley get the goal spree under way collecting a long cross from Dan Jacob to confidently control and slot home and in the next attack Kieran Davies starting for the first time cleverly set up Dan Jacob for the second goal. It was 3-0 with a third goal in less than three minutes as a superb move split the Desborough defence with Lewis Hilliard accepting a perfectly weighted return pass from Stefan Moore to score from close range. The fourth goal after 26 minutes saw Stefan Moore on the score sheet wrong footing the exposed goalkeeper to finish off a stunning approach move involving Matt Haniver and Webb. Then a brief lull in the scoring but seven minutes before half time another searing cross from the left by Jacob was side footed past the helpless visiting keeper by Stefan Moore.