Fleetwood Town FC 3 Matlock Town FC 0

Tuesday October 6th UniBond League Premier Division

Crowd 604

Goals: FTFC – Steve Foster, Alex Taylor 2

Fleetwood Town rounded off a prolific week with another comprehensive victory. And it was the predatory Alex Taylor who again dominated the goal feast; this latest brace taking his tally of goals to six in the last three games. Credit too to manager Tony Greenwood who since re-shaping his line up into a 3-5-2 formation has been rewarded for alchemy with three wins and 13 goals. Fleetwood, unchanged for the third match in succession, carried on where they had left off in Tuesday’s 6-3 demolition of Leek Town, playing some delightful football to enter the half time interval with a two goal lead. 

Steve Foster opened the scoring with a clever lob over the head of the advancing Matlock goalkeeper and minutes later the Town fans in the Percy Ronson Stand were hollering for a penalty when Taylor was flattened after getting his head to a cross by Kieran Walmsley. After lengthy treatment, Taylor returned to the action and promptly doubled Fleetwood’s advantage.  And what a glorious team goal it was, the outstanding Jamie Milligan spraying a pass out wide to Walmsley who ran on the ball and after taking a quick look to size up his options delivered a delicious cross for Taylor to head the ball past the helpless keeper.

Fleetwood keeper Danny Hurst made a fine save just before the break and the home side were grateful to their last line of defence on two further occasions in the second half as the visitors strove hard to reduce the arrears. But there was no denying the voracious Taylor and with 15 minutes remaining, Taylor nodded the ball home from close range after skipper Ricky Mercer had headed a Milligan free kick across the goalmouth. 

This was another excellent result for Fleetwood against talented opposition. Hurst, Taylor, Walmsley, Milligan and sponsors man of the match Martin Moran all impressed whilst Foster becomes more effective with every game and is now demonstrating just what an important player he will be for Fleetwood this season. 

Fleetwood Town Team: Danny Hurst, Kieran Walmsley (Shaun Gray), Jez Fitzgerald (Ciaran Donnelly), Martin Moran, Ricky Mercer, Phil Robinson, Michael Brown, Nathan Pond, Steve Foster, Alex Taylor, Jamie Milligan. Sub Not Used: Mickey Saunders.