SUTTON C TOWN 0 LANCASTER CITY 2

ON NON-LEAGUE Day, Sutton welcomed the Lord Mayor of Birmingham as their special guest to Coles Lane but they were unable to produce the performance they needed to claim all three points.

Their opponents in this Evo-Stik Premier League game were Lancaster City sitting in sixth place in the League.

Following two awful games where they conceded 11 goals and only replied once, mangers Richard Sneekes and Steve Hinks shook up the team with five new players making their debuts.

The game started at breakneck speed and Lancaster forced a number of corners which Sutton defended well.

Sutton then came back into the game and put the Lancaster defence under pressure and a great shot by debutant Reece Hutchinson was pushed away by the keeper.

Within minutes Tyler Lyttle, another debutant, hit the crossbar with the keeper beaten.

The game then settled into an evenly matched contest with neither team having a real chance and neither goalkeeper being called upon to make a save of any note.

The second half continued in the same vain and it took a scrambled goal in the 60th minute from Oliver Wood to break the deadlock.

Lancaster scored a second right on the stroke of full time when debutant keeper Nicky Draper failed to hold a low free kick and Louis Mayer followed up to tap home the loose ball and ensure all three points.

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