Afan Lido vs Cwmbran Celtic

Match Report

CELTIC TO ANOTHER DISAPPOINTING DEFEAT AT LIDO

Celtic travelled to Aberavon for a Friday night game under the Afan Lido floodlights in the knowledge that a win against a team who had won just one of their last 13 league games would put Celtic 7 points ahead of bottom placed Lido. However, Lido reduced the gap to 1 point, with a convincing 4-1 win in which all their goals were a consequence of poor defending by Celtic who sank to their 4th successive league defeat.
Lido took the lead in the 14th minute when the Celtic defence failed to clear their lines from a cross from the right by Travis James and allowed veteran midfield captain Liam McCreesh to nip in and score from close range. Two good saves from Celtic keeper Iwan Hooper kept the score to 1-0 at half time. In the 53rd minute Celtic were level when a free kick taken by Hooper pierced the Lido central defence for Tom Meechan to race down the middle and slip the ball under the body of keeper Ben Haines into the net. However, the lead was short-lived when, on 59 minutes, a cross from the left was headed away but straight to the unmarked Ben Keen who gleefully slammed the ball into the net. Celtic rarely threatened the Lido goal thereafter apart from a long range shot over the bar. In the 65th minute Lido went 3-1 up when Liam Thomas intercepted a back pass, sent the isolated Hooper the wrong way and placed the ball into the empty net. Meechan had a shot pushed round the post by Haines for a corner but on 90+2 minutes substitute Damon Thomas arrived unmarked in the 6-yard box to head the ball into the net from fellow substitute Babucar Sauane’s corner to complete Celtic’s misery.
This was Celtic’s 5th successive defeat at Afan Lido. In 9 away league games stretching back to 201011 Celtic’s record is won 0 drawn 2 lost 7. Celtic are now in the bottom 3 ahead of Taffs Well only on goal difference with Lido now just one point adrift.