These two teams last met on September 14 at Ynys Park when Llanwern took away all three points from Ton Pentre with a 1-0 win. However, the Rhondda Bulldogs have found their form and it was their turn to clinch the points in a match that Ton never lost control of.

The opening minutes saw Paul Parker fouled and Carl Thomas's resulting free kick hit the top of the cross bar. The ball looked as though it had dipped enough to go in.

Moments later a long ball from Mike Jones in the Ton defence helped to release Lee Tapper to run through on goal, he then put pressure on Llanwern's Alex Lee to force a Rhondda Bulldogs corner. Ceri Harding sent the ball in from the corner to Andrew Hughes whose strike was cleared off the line. Ton were in total domination of the game. This was again evident when an excellent lob from Harding confused the home teams defence. Carl Thomas gained possession of the ball and cheekily chipped it over the head of his marker creating space for him to shoot but John Pearson in goals got a hand to the effort making the ball skim the top of the cross bar.

Hughes was fouled in midfield and Llanwern's Adriano Girolaiti was shown a yellow card for failing to listen to the referee when the official was making sure the wall was ten yards from the ball. Two minutes later on the 27-minute mark Llanwern scored totally against the run of play to put themselves in the lead. Lee scored the soft goal when John Howe failed hold onto the players' shot.

Ton Pentre replied to going 1-0 down by scoring a goal themselves. Ton captain Hughes was goalscorer when a Tapper throw-in went to Alex Lawless who hit a sweet cross into the box for Hughes to strike. Ton finished the first half with corner after corner but the score remained 1-1 at half-time.

At the start of the second half Lawless passed to Harding on the left wing. He crossed into the Llanwern area and it looked as though Pearson had it covered in goal but Hughes didn't give up his run and got his head to the ball and was unlucky to direct his effort wide. As Pearson took the goal kick he crashed to the ground injured after pulling a muscle in his leg. With the player unfit to carry on Troy Quarterley took up the goalkeeping position with Kristian Hambury coming on in Pearson's place.

Less than five minutes later Warren Attwell pushed Lee Tapper in the home side's box and the referee awarded Ton the penalty. Carl Thomas stepped up to take it and settled the ball in the back of the net making it 2-1.

Mark Evans replaced Paul Parker after 73 minutes and took up a position on the left wing, which saw Harding pushed up into the front line. Immediately after the substitution Harding scored when Hughes directed a pinpoint pass into the players path.

With the score at 3-1 Llanwern's Girolaiti was shown his second yellow card of the match for play-acting. He had been on a thin line with the referee for most of the second half. With Llanwern having to play the final 15 minutes of the match with ten men, Ton decided to freshen up with Ali Kiyaga and Craig Thomas replacing Carl Thomas and Alex Lawless.

Ton Pentre rounded off the afternoons goal scoring five minutes from time when Tapper smashed his shot past Quarterley after Hughes had hit a cutting cross into the winger's path.

Briton Ferry are Ton Pentre's next opponents in the Welsh League when they visit Ynys Park for the fixture on Saturday 26 October with a 3 o'clock start.

Ton Pentre: Howe; Tapper; Davies; Jones; Roberts; Hughes; Lawless (Craig Thomas, 78mins); Morris; Carl Thomas (Kiyaga, 78mins); Paul Parker (Evans, 73mins); Ceri Harding

Match report by Rob Dowling.