Report: Warrington Town 0-3 Gainsborough Trinity

Gainsborough Trinity comfortably brought to an end the only remaining unbeaten home record in the league with a 3-0 win at Warrington Town.

A touch of class from Jonathon Margetts broke the deadlock three minutes before the interval, he controlled a pull-back after a nice flick by Sisi Tuntulwana and despite being stood up by two defenders, steered a shot in to the bottom corner from the penalty spot.

It was a deserved half time lead for Gainsborough, who had created the only chances of the first half. Liam Isherwood got down well to deny Jordan Helliwell inside three minutes and also saved from Tuntulwana after his initial shot had been blocked by Evan Gumbs.

Warrington huffed and puffed at the start of the second half without creating any chances, two James Melhado crosses coming to no good, and then a clumsy challenge by Harry Flowers gave the visitors a penalty.

Frank Mulhern, whose brother Rob used to play for Warrington’s rugby league team, stepped up and sent Isherwood the wrong way from the spot.

The only work David Robson had to do in the Gainsborough goal was to tip behind a Max Thompson header that looked like landing on the roof of his net.

Isherwood acrobatically tipped over a deflected Tuntulwana shot but he could do nothing about the third goal, a short corner opening up for Bobby Johnson to fire in a right-footed shot from outside the left corner of the box.

Warrington Town: Isherwood, Melhado, J Doyle (Waters 62), Gumbs, Flowers (Bourne 74), Vela (Lloyd 74), Brazier (Morris 46), Harris, Thompson, Daly (Gabidon 74), Watson.

Gainsborough Trinity: Robson, Simpson, A Johnson, B Johnson (McLoughin 85), Crookes, Beeden, Butroid, Helliwell (Hornshaw 79), Margetts (Williams 74), Mulhern (Preston 90), Tuntulwana. Unused sub: Clarke.

Post-match reaction