HT ( 0 ) ( 1 )
L.Conway 3 (2 pens )

A vital game for both sides was clinched by Villa with a goal late into stoppage time, this was no more than their spirited second half performance warranted, coming from two goals down to win the match.

The game was always going to be close between two well matched sides. Villa started brightly and came close after five minutes when good interplay between Sam Shone, Elliot Dunn and Danny Nolan set up Liam Conway , but his effort was just over the bar. Kirkham came close themselves two minutes later with a shot over the bar. Euxton continued to play intelligent football and caused the visitors further problems after ten minutes when Elliot Dunn released Danny Nolan who was closed down by the Kirkham defence.

For the next ten minutes their was little in the way of goalmouth action as both sides contested the midfield, trying to get the upper hand, it was Kirkham who made the breakthrough on 21 minutes. A long ball out from midfield caught out the Villa defence, and a well taken shot put the visitors ahead. The goal lifted Kirkham and they started to put pressure on the home defence in what was easily their best spell of the game. It was 35 minutes before Villa troubled the visitors again. From a corner Danny Nolan was unlucky to see a header cleared off the line, Matt Atherton following up saw his shot blocked by the Kirkham defence.

It was now end to end , Craig Chambers was close with a shot that was blocked , from the resulting corner Rhys Crombie saw his header fly just over the bar, it was then Kirkham's turn to attack, they came close with a low shot from the right across the face of goal , and came even closer a minute later when a long ball created an opening, forcing Shaun Gibbs into a fine save diving to his left. The half finished with Villa coming close, they were awarded a free kick on the right of the area , Matt Atherton took the kick, but the effort was blocked by the visitors wall.

From the start of the second half manager Mark McHugh moved out of the dugout to a different part of the pitch to get a better prospective of the play, were he was later joined by the Kirkham manager. Five minutes after the restart Villa suffered a further set back when Kirkham scored a second goal. From this point the visitors were content to play a containing game to protect their two goal cushion. Trying to disrupt Villa's build up play, in order to frustrate the home side.

One of the great strength's of this young Villa side is that they never know when they are beaten, so they continued to press the visitors back, they were rewarded after an hour when Matt Atherton was brought down in the box, Liam Conway confidently put away the resulting penalty. It was the visitors who were now feeling the pressure, After seventy minutes Villa drew level when they were awarded a second penalty. Liam Conway again took the kick, and this time found the net via the post and the back of the keeper.

Kirkham were rocked by the Villa comeback. The home side were not finished as Tom Whittaker and Adrian Briggs joined the action , allowing Villa to go to three at the back as they pushed for a winner. With ninety minutes up the visitors were happy to take the draw and keep a three point gap between the teams. The game had one more twist in the tail as four minutes into injury time Liam Conway completed his hat-trick with a shot, to give his side a deserved victory and put the two teams level on points.

Team - Gibbs, C.Chambers, ( Walker ) O'Loughlin, Crombie, Winstanley, (Briggs ) L.Conway, Bradshaw, Dunn, Atherton, Shone, ( Whittaker ) Nolan.