Mossley dominated the first half of this pre season friendly against neighbours Glossop North End at Reddish Vale College.

On a small pitch space was hard to find but a young reserve side controlled proceedings with some very attractive football and took the lead on 22 minutes following good work from debutant Jay Walcott from FC United of Manchester, who played in former Lithuanian under-21 International Andzej Falcik who made no mistake from 15 yards out.

Captain Ben McNamara and Andy Bailey were out standing in the centre of midfield for the Lilywhites and it was Bailey who doubled the lead on 29 minutes when he picked up a loose ball just inside the Glossop half and set off on a surging run that ended with him beating two Glossop defenders on the edge of the are before smashing the ball home from 18 yards.

Mossley then proceeded to hit the woodwork on four occasions through Walcott twice, Falcik and Bailey in the remainder of the half.

Mossley made a couple of changes at half time which seemed to work against them at the start of the second half, with Glossop pressing higher up the pitch Mossley struggled to get their passing game going.

Within six minutes of the restart Glossop had halved the scoreline following a mistake by the Lilywhites back four.

Three minutes later and the scores were level when a free kick on the edge of the centre circle, deceived keeper Nick Howard and found its way into the back of the goal.

From the restart, Mossley finally began to regain control of proceedings threatening the Glossop goal on a number of occasions, with Walcott, Jordon Cuff and McNanmara all coming close but it wasn't until the 74th minute when the winning goal came. Walcott pressed the Glossop left back and in forcing the mistake, allowed Nat Martin to smartly round the Glossop centre back before hitting the ball into the top corner of the goal from 25 yards.

Report by Rob Byrne