L.Conway 2
L.Chambers
M.Bradshaw
R.Wood

Villa produced an exhilarating performance, at times playing majestic football, with solid defending, inspired midfield play and clinical finishing, this against a form side unbeaten in their last five games.

For the first ten minutes there was little pattern to the play, then Villa started to impose themselves , on ten minutes Liam Conway cut in from the right, only for his low shot to be saved by the keeper. With Fourteen minutes played a Sam Shone flick on played through Liam Conway, who just failed to make contact. One minute later and Villa were deservedly ahead.
Sam Shone saw his low shot saved for a corner, the resulting kick was cleared for a second corner. This was cleared, but Elliot Dunn following up was fouled on the edge of the area. Lee Chambers a regular goalscorer took the kick, driving through the wall to put Villa ahead.

The goal lifted Villa and minutes later they had a second, good work on the left by John Winstanley caused problems, as Tempest tried to clear a typical forceful challenge from Elliot Dunn created an opening for Liam Conway who made no mistake with a low shot to the keepers right. The home side were without doubt in the ascendancy, Craig Chambers won a free kick on the right, which the visitors managed to clear. They then had their best spell of the game forcing a couple of corners. The Villa defence stood firm, and came back strongly almost adding a third on the half hour when John Winstanley set up Elliot Dunn who put a low shot just past the far post.

The early period of the second half was always going to be critical, a third goal for Villa and the match would be as good as over, but a goal for the visitors would put pressure on the home side. To their credit Villa took control from the restart , on forty six minutes a Rhys Crombie free kick on the left was headed just wide by Darren Davies. Tempest never got the chance to assert themselves as Villa upped their game from the first half with both Sam Shone and Elliot Dunn coming close within minutes of the restart.

The deciding goal came on fifty three minutes following intense Villa pressure. From a corner Elliot Dunn saw his shot blocked, Lee Chambers following up had his effort tipped over the bar. The resulting corner was collected by the keeper, but his clearance was picked up by Mick Bradshaw who won a race with a defender and the keeper to get the all important third goal.

With the final third of the game still to play it was now one way traffic as Villa dominated, John Winstanley came close shooting past the post following good build up play by Sam Shone and Liam Conway. Mick Bradshaw set up Liam Conway, but his shot was just too high, then Elliot Dunn, who could easily on another day have netted three or four, was again unlucky to see his shot fly wide.

Villa's pressure continued, Mick Bradshaw shot just over the bar, Elliot Dunn again saw his effort blocked following a free kick. It seemed only a matter of time before Villa added to their lead, and they eventually did with five minutes remaining when Liam Conway cut in from the right to beat the keeper with a low shot inside the far post. Four minutes later Villa added a fifth when Liam Conway played a short corner to Rick Wood who beat the keeper with some aplomb to complete an excellent result which saw Villa finish the year in fine style.

Team - Gibbs, C.Chambers, ( Wood ) Davies, L.Chambers, Crombie, L.Conway, Bradshaw, O'Loughlin, Dunn, Winstanley ( Brown ) Shone, ( Thompson )