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Woodley 1 Hilltop 5

HILLTOP, league leaders and the division’s highest goal scorers, visited The Rivermoor on Saturday – and it took them only two minutes to open the scoring.

A mis-hit pass in midfield was intercepted and despite the challenge of Leo Richardson, Michael Panford slotted home from close range.

Woodley weathered this set back with the next 15 minutes being a predominately midfield affair but gradually Hilltop wrestled the advantage and started to apply pressure that saw Stuart Birkett block a shot for a corner and Ethan Green save well from man of the match Kamall Nur, also for a corner.

United responded with two corners of their own and Josh Raw shooting wide but the response was short lived as first Green collected a header from a corner kick before a low cross into the host’s penalty was met by the on-coming Anis Assoweh to double the in the

37th minute.

Four minutes later Nur met a cross to head pass Green into the far top corner for a 3-0 half-time lead.

Woodley made three changes at the break which saw an even open 20 minutes.

The best chance for United was debutant substituted Jack PageSmith firing over the cross bar on the hour.

However, Woodley’s improved play was undone in the 63rd minute when Assoweh broke free to score one on one with Green.

Further changes were made by Woodley, Ben Anderson shot wide and a minute late substitute Nick Gray scored from close range with his first touch in the 71st minute.

With two minutes of normal time remaining centre back Leo Richardson received a second yellow card and while the home team re-grouped

Ali Mohamed completed the scoring from close range in the 89th minute.

WOODLEY: Giles, Whight, Carmichael, Raw (Gray), Richardson, Williams, Smith (Reid), Goddard (Monteiro), Anderson, Birkett (Page-Smith), Elmore (Probert)