Witton Substitution:
Prince Haywood replaced by Ronan Eves on 90+4 minutes.
Full Time Score from The NetDec Stadium:
Witton Albion 3 Buxton 0.
Attendance: 324.
Witton deservedly through to the next round and £3000 in the bank.
Great win!! We are not going to win the FA Cup but a few more wins will ease our finances dramatically.
WHS.
If you weren’t there today you missed an absolute treat. We were magnificent from front to back. This was no lucky win. Buxton were completely outplayed, out fought, out run, out scored and out of the cup by a tremendous Albion performance. Any neutral watching would have thought we were top of the NPL. It would be churlish to pick a man of the match as we performed to a man.
We have a team - and now you’d better believe it !!
We were an absolute joy to watch! Solid at the back, composed in midfield (prince was fantastic) and we were always a threat up front but above all of that they run their proverbial socks off from start to finish! What a fantastic hard working performance from all
Fantastic result - well done to all! bowdown
Great start to the season and to progress in the FA Cup with one of the toughest draws of the round is Brilliant!
UTA
Nothing to be said other than congratulations, what a fantastic, fully deserved win. No better way to start a Saturday evening than with an FA CUP win over higher league opposition.
Absolutely delighted with the performance today, we must have the fittest bunch of lads in Non League right now, they ran their socks off and Buxton just couldn’t handle us!
Such a joy to see a team clearly playing for each other and enjoying their football, i was tired just watching the amount of running these lads do even at 3-0 with 90 minutes on the clock they were still battling for every ball like their lives depended on it!
Hopefully the draw will be kind to us on Monday lunchtime but we fear no one!!
As has been said Buxton could just not cope with us there was only ever going to be one winner today. I have not seen a Witton side for a long time that work their socks off so much from minute 1 to 90 with some real quality thrown in for good measure too. It really is a joy to watch. UTA
Well done to the team and football management, two thousand miles away but still look for Wheels updates, thanks Derek.
Get your body back from Greece and down to WP !!
Absolutely amazing win today and well done to everyone involved for such a brilliant start to the season. A very tough tie against a good side and we come through with flying colours COME ON THE ALBIOOON!
Fantastic first game of the season for me and what a great game it was. I was looking forward to seeing the lads play and they certainly delivered. Well done to all
JT
Just glad I was there today to witness the Barcelona of non league dismantle Buxton. Am slightly concerned for the state of the pitch if they keep covering this much ground each game. Very impressed with the stand in keeper, best save was from a free kick in the first half, top class. Noticed Romulus, next weeks opponents had 713 watching, don’t think we’ll take quite as many as Hereford did, but lets go for quality rather than quantity. ME no need to trvel so far, Talacre is lovely this time of year.
Get in!! What a performance what a team, effort today was ridiculous. Proud wittoner! Buxton didn’t know what hit them. KEEP IT GOING LADS - UTA
Congratulations to Carl and all of the management team for putting together a team that are an absolute pleasure to watch. I cannot remember enjoying a game of football as much for a very long time. It was an absolute privilege to be there. UTA
All the stay aways just have to see what they are missing. Now IS the time to get yourselves down to Wincham Park.
FIngers crossed for a home draw !!
What a performance today Buxton were totally outplayed. Everyone of the team put in 110% and more, and some of the football was unbelievable. Carl and co have really got us a team, a team that puts everything into the game and are bringing the feel good factor back to Witton. so come on all you missing Witton fans come on down and watch this team take us forward. UTA
Brilliant, really enjoy watching this new crop of players, their energy and enthusiasm is such a pleasure to watch in contrast to the Tony Pulis style I suffer from at The Hawthorns. My congratulations to Carl, Gary and the lads on such a tremendous start to the campaign, long may it continue. :clap
From Buxton Website
WITTON ALBION (2) 3 BUXTON (0) 0 ATT 324
For the first time in Martin McIntosh’s 5 years plus as manager, Buxton on Saturday at Northwich trod on a F.A. Cup banana skin, losing the battle of two of the league’s divisional leaders to an inspired Albion side which has now remarkably won all 7 of its league and cup fixtures and is energising its supporters with an effective brand of attacking soccer.
Apart from a 4th-minute Buxton offside goal' it was Witton who took the initiative from the outset while the Bucks’ struggled to create support for the willing running of lone striker Bradley Grayson and Niall Doran’s smart snap shot on 20 minutes, blocked close to goal, was a rare highlight as the home team looked the more likely scorers. However, when the first goal did come on the half-hour it was controversial. A penalty-kick award was a very harsh judgment for a coming-together of bodies without ill intent at the left edge of the area. The fact that the otherwise caution-happy referee, who altogether brandished his yellow card 6 times in a tie totally devoid of bad tackles, offered no rebuke to the alleged offender speaks volumes. It would seem that this whistler is used to contact-free soccer in the area of his usual Taunton base! Bauress nicely disguised his effort to deceive Jan Budtz for the first time from 3 spot-kicks faced by the 'keeper so far this season. Albion immediately went close to doubling their lead but Greg Young, one of the few successes on the day, produced a timely tackle as Tranmere loanee, Omotola, was about to shoot. In the 37th minute Buxton forced a save from stand-in ‘keeper Ritchie (ex-Vauxhall) as a Jamie Green curling free-kick was on target, then Joel, in a rare foray forward, took advantage of a ricochet close to goal but, at full stretch, couldn’t find the net. Responding immediately, Witton scored a crucial second goal at a crucial time, a matter of seconds prior to the half-time whistle, midfielder Owens forcing the ball home at close range.
Forwards Jamie Jackson and Nicky Walker were now introduced but Albion continued to attack more convincingly and 7 minutes into the second half, Hopley got in behind the defence and hit the far post with his shot. Almost immediately Budtz saved the striker’s power drive but there was no escape from him when the ex-Colwyn Bay long-server prodded in the decisive 3rd goal just past the hour. The visitors had their best spell late in the game with two well-constructed but ultimately fruitless moves. Firstly, from Joel’s long pass down the right touchline, Grayson crossed low but Owens’s fine tackle at the near post averted the danger then, from the same flank, Jackson’s cross was flick-headed by Ricky Ravenhill but wide of the far post.
Victory must have proved particularly sweet to Albion midfielder Prince Haywood who was a 2015 Buxton trialist and who was then 3 times on the losing side for Ramsbottom versus `the Bucks’, whose only crumb of comfort in losing at this stage for the first time in 11 years is that seemingly promotion-bound Witton compared very favourably with the highly-placed Premier Division teams comfortably dispatched the previous weekend.
The aim must now be to cement the excellent start to the league season while rivals take time out to seek F.A. Cup fame and fortune.
Budtz; Bembo-Leta(J), Burns, Young, Green; Ravenhill; Taylor (Walker 52), Abbott (Jackson 45), Evrington, Doran; Grayson. Unused subs. Bembo-Leta (F), Milner, Bozkurt, Potter, Barlow.