Cirencester maintain perfect start thanks to pair of 4-0 successes

» CIRENCESTER Town maintained their 100 per cent start to the season with 4-0 wins at Melksham on Tuesday and over county rivals Cinderford Town.

They sit top of Southern League Division One South - and are yet to concede a goal in four league games.

At Melksham, they opened the scoring in the first five minutes as Brad Gray slotted home.

Josh Parsons cut in to fire home the second then after the break, a superb pass from Lee Llewelyn released Jonny Dennis, who curled his shot inside the post.

Josh Nelmes poked the ball home from close range for the fourth goal.

Against Cinderford, Parsons scored the first as he broke into the Cinderford box where he deftly tucked the ball inside the right post as ‘keeper Mundle advanced.

A few minutes later Cirencester were handed a second when an attempted back pass was wide of the ‘keeper to finish inside the left post for an own goal.

Cirencester produced some incisive football that led to the busy Parsons making it 3-0.

Within a minute of the re-start Cirencester increased their lead as Parsons worked hard along the left by-line to supply Gray who finished from close range.

Cinderford finished with 10 men when Tristan Haswell had to leave the field injured.

» EVESHAM United’s FA Cup run ended as they lost 3-1 at Tamworth.

Tamworth took the lead with 83 seconds on the clock, as former Cheltenham Town loanee Shaquille Mcdonald latched onto a cross field ball, cut back, and picked his spot from 30 yards to open the scoring.

Then a good move upfield by The Lambs allowed Bilal Yafai a strike from the left of the box, which took an absolutely wicked deflection giving Lewis Clayton no chance to stop and found its way inside the near post to double the lead on 21 minutes.

Just after the half hour mark, Jaanai Gordon, another ex-cheltenham player, received the ball in his own half, before he pushed forwards, before driving his shot home from the edge of the box.

Evesham got back into the game on 55 minutes. Tamworth’s Tonks brought down Josh Hunt in the box and Jack Horrell’s penalty was fired past Jas Singh.

Tamworth were reduced to 10 men on the hour as Jordan Gough was sent off for a rash challenge on Calvin Dinsley but the defence stood fast.

On Monday night, Evesham fell to a 1-0 Southern League Division One South defeat agaiinst Larkhall.

The only goal came in the 38th minute when Alex Lambert cut in from the right and fired past Lewis Clayton.

The visitors had a great chance to seal victory in the second half when they were awarded a penalty but Bradley Norris saw Clayton dive to his left and parry his effort away superbly.