A youthful Mossley side made short and easy work of an equally young Macclesfield Town side at Seel Park on Friday evening.

Mossley dominated the game from the start and had the visitors chasing shadows for much of the game. Several chances had already seen Macc's keeper Andrew Mills by far the busier and it was no surprise when Mossley took a 25th minute lead. Centre back Keil O'Brien powerfully heading home Joe Heap's poinpoint right wing corner.

The lead was doubled eleven minutes later. Mossley were awarded a free kick 25 yards out for a foul on the promising Harry Noon and Aaron Chalmers curled home a great strike from a position just right of central.

Skipper for the day Chalmres had dominated the game in the opening period and it was unfortunate to lose him to injury moments later, Ryan Barrow slotting into his midfield berth while Lee Rick took the captains armband.

Mossley began to use their remaining substitutes at half time and made the result safe as houses when Heap played a perfect through ball for Scott Barlow to net his first Mossley goal as he beat the onrushing keeper to ball before poking it past him from just inside the box on 49 minutes.

Another Heap corner brought Mossley's fourth goal four minutes later. O'Brien was again the header recipient but this time his header found Barlow who simply nodded home his second from close range.

Mossley brought on youth teamer Omar McKenzie and ex Shamrock Rovers striker Falco Lourenco and both made an immediate impact.

Lourenco scored a stunning goal on 64 minutes when he received the ball on the edge of the box, dummied one way went the other and turned to curl home a fine shot into the bottom corner that left Mills rooted to his line.

McKenzie was the next to impress when he danced around a couple of defenders before curling home a left footer from 20 yards less than a minute later.

The high pace o0f the game finally eased off in the latter stages but Mossley still created several more chances without adding to the score.

Some of Mossley's pass and move football was of excellent quality and with the younger squad members showing such excellent form it gives manager Gareth McClelland plenty of headaches when it comes to first team selection.

Report by Wizard

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