National League North

Alty ride to victory with Piggott treble

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
24 February 2019

CURZON ASHTON 0 ALTRINCHAM 6

By Dave Jones
ALTRINCHAM powered to victory at Curzon Ashton with a five-goal 24-minute blitz either side of halftime.
The opening stages were no indication of the rout to follow. But once the visitors went ahead on 30 minutes, the floodgates opened.
They led from a short corner move between John Johnson and Yushfi Ceesay, Johnson taking one touch on Ceesay’s return ball before smashing his shot home.
Sean Williams doubled Alty’s advantage six minutes later, latching onto Andrew White’s long ball and unleashing an unstoppable shot in off the po...

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