National League North

First-half Reds rush too much for Trinity

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
10 September 2017

By Joshua Smith
ALFRETON TOWN 4
GAINSBOROUGH TRINITY 1
A SPECTACULAR first half saw Alfreton Town run away winners before the break, as they hit four in consecutive home games.
Tom Platt opened the scoring after eight minutes. Craig Westcarr overhit a cross from the right which Brendon Daniels kept alive at the back post. Daniels slid to bundle the ball across the face of goal where Platt applied the definitive tap.
Westcarr chested home a Daniels free-kick four minutes later before Daniels’ third assist, again a free-kick, was hooked home by Ricky German for his first goal for the Re...

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