Last Sunday, Monmouth Town U16 played at Chepstow in an East Gwent League game, returning with a 5-2 victory.

Straight from the kick-off, a fine pass by Alex Cleaves split the Chepstow defence and a fine-angled shot by Sam Oxley flew into the net to record the quickest goal of the season in less than 10 seconds.

Five minutes later, good passing in midfield between Matt Styler and Mitchell Prosser released Bob Kear on the right wing and his lovely low cross was finished from close range by Oxley.

Monmouth continued to dominate and another flowing move, which started with Joe Coombs at full back, ended with a parried shot falling to Kear, who made no mistake to rifle home from 12 yards.

Another tricky run by Kear ended with a foul just inside the Chepstow box and from the resulting spot-kick, Prosser struck the ball past the valiant keeper.

It was 4-0 at half-time against a team who had won 1-0 the week before against one of the top teams, a great reward for the pass-and-move style of the Monmouth boys.

In the second half, Chepstow did step their game up and grabbed a goal after 20 minutes. Then a lovely far post corner from Alex McNamara was coolly headed home by centre back Ben Colewell.

Chepstow pressed again and scored despite a fine double save by Chris Whaley.

Brad Bradley was unlucky not to score after a couple of runs gave him a sight of goal, but the scoring was complete as Henry Edwards marshalled the Monmouth defence with a captain's authority ably assisted by an all-action display by Henry Corcoran at full back.

Next up is a home game against Mardy on Chippenham this Sunday (1st December), kick off 2.15pm.