Nantwich Town were well beaten at home as Bury ran out 4-1 victors at the Swansway Stadium, writes Liam Price.
Dabbers boss Jon Moran made two changes from the side that drew at Darlaston on Saturday with Byron Harrison and James Baillie coming into the team.
The game started in torrential rain which affected the quality of football but it was Bury who adjusted best.
A clever dummy on the Dabbers left allowed a ball to go through to Rustam Stepans who finished it expertly into the bottom corner to give Bury a 1-0 lead in only the 10th minute.
That was the only thing of note to happen in the first quarter.
Bebeto Gomes then had the awareness to see a ball from Roxburgh that was trying to bisect the defence and cut it out. The run from Roxburgh was the first real Nantwich positive.
Nantwich started to grow into the game and finally getting some decent spells of possession.
Roxburgh wasted a shot but Alex Panter had a better one, finding space and using it to charge into the Bury box and fire wide.
Then the Dabbers suffered a hammer blow as the Shakers struck again. A cross from the right wasn’t cleared and Stepans was there to side-foot a volley into the net.
He nearly had his hat-trick on the stroke of half time, but Garratt was able to get something on the shot and tip it behind.
And the visitors sealed the points early on in the second half.
Gomes laid the ball off for former Dabber Kai Evans to curl in off the crossbar.
Evans nearly burst through to score again but a stretching challenge on him was enough to put him off.
But the Welshman was not to be denied his second much longer.
With the ball played to him in the box, the presence of Oli Finney forced him past the far post but he had the vision and quality to execute a perfect backheel across Garratt and into the far corner.
But there was something to cheer about for the Dabbers late on.
A consolation came from the left foot of Callum Saunders who finished past Mitchell Allen after being cleverly played in by Harry Bower.
That was Saunders’ first goal since the superb lob against Kidsgrove in August.
The crowd of 1,045 was the biggest attendance at the Swansway Stadium for a league game since August 2011.
The next home game for Nantwich is this Saturday November 15th against Shifnal Town.
The game will kick off at 3.03pm as a gesture of support for the National League’s 3UP campaign.
(Pics courtesy of Jonathan White)
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