Match report sponsored by Lifestyle Property Services, Bradley Stoke Town official sponsor

GFA Minor Cup Final, Almondsbury Town FC, Tuesday, 3 April 2007.
Bradley Stoke Town 1-2 Brislington Cricketers

• Click here to see a full match gallery from the night (Photos by Gary Bray/UNiCOM)

Bradley Stoke Town�s GFA Cup campaign ended in heartbreak as they fell to a 2-1 defeat to Brislington Cricketers in the final.

Bradley Stoke got off to a dream start, though, with an early goal from James Collis-Pritchard.

Town�s number six blasted the orange and blacks into dreamland with a low strike under the Cricketers� keeper.

And they could have extended the lead five minutes later when the dangerous Ashley Lloyd was through on goal. Cricketers� James Tokely denied the number 11 with a last-ditch tackle.

Andy Forshaw also had a chance in the first half to make it 2-0 but his chip drifted over the bar.

Brislington, having earlier hit the post, should have levelled the match shortly before half time when Jack O�Brien narrowly dragged his shot wide.

Matthew Grimes got the second half off to a great start for Brislington. Within minutes of the restart he scooped a shot over the bar. Minutes later he was through on goal only for Town keeper James Palmer to parry his shot wide for a corner.

But Town fell behind from the flag kick as Jack Elston poked home from close range following a goal mouth scramble.

And it only took them another 10 minutes to find the winner as Jack O’Brien broke down the right wing. He passed in-field to Mark Chaffey who dragged the ball to his left foot and eluded the Town defence before striking a sweet shot into the bottom left.

Bradley Stoke pushed for a second goal � and should have scored in the closing minutes of the match.

Andy Forshaw�s chip was hit too hard and Matt Dobbins was deeply unlucky not to have scored after an excellent run which saw him ghost past four Brislington players.

A last ditch free kick on the very corner of the 18 yard box went over and with it Bradley Stoke�s chances of lifting the cup.

It was a great effort from Bradley Stoke Town who were unlucky not to have got more from the match.

• Many thanks to Mark Chaffey for clearing up the Cricketers’ scorers for us

Bradley Stoke Town line-up:

1 James Palmer
2 Kevin Gray
3 Andy Gray
4 Craig Potter
5 Tom Huchings
6 James Collis-Pritchard
7 Ben Osborne
8 Matt Dobbins
9 Andy Forshaw
10 Paul Skipp
11 Ashley Lloyd

12 Joe Williams
13 James Potter
14 Liam Dixon
15 Sam Chilcott
16 Andy Gore