Llansawel 4

Monmouth Town 1

Monmouth Town's Kingfishers travelled to Neath in hope and expectation of a win which would send them another couple of places up the Welsh League table.

They returned with nothing, having been beaten by a better organised, hungrier relegation threatened Llansawel team, who barely had to break sweat to register their best win of the season.

Although missing the suspended Smith and in form striker Tranter Monmouth can have little excuse for an insipid display as they shipped four goals from set pieces, lost all of the individual battles and generally had a bad day at the office.

And yet the start was misleading as Kennedy headed in a Harris free kick for the first goal after seven minutes but two goals in two minutes on the half hour as Town's defenders went missing from a throw in and a corner gave Llansawel the half time lead.

If anything Town's second half performance was worse and once they went further behind on 62 minutes it was game over as the home sick Kingfishers on their first away game for three months never looked capable of breaking down a home defence, who didn't have to do much to thwart toothless and aimless attacks.

In contrast the burly Llansawel strikers seemed to cause havoc with every long ball punted their way.

The fourth goal merely underlined the gulf that existed in attitude and desire between the two sides and Town joint boss Barry Burns was at a loss to explain the heavy defeat afterwards preferring to look forward to next week's fixture again in west Glamorgan at high flying Cwmamman United.

"We were very poor all over the park today and if there's any consolation it's that we can't play that badly again. We should know by now that we can't expect to turn up and beat sides.

"We have to work a lot harder for our results and hopefully that lesson will have been learnt."

Before the game both sides observed a minutes silence in tribute to Monmouth's Jamie Gunn, killed in action in Afghanistan.