Trowbridge Town 4, Malmesbury Victoria 0 (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)

Trowbridge Town 4, Malmesbury Victoria 0

MATT Cooper starred in Trowbridge's comfortable Easter Monday victory to emphasise the goal power at manager Neil Kirkpatrick's disposal.

The youngster was forced to make way for new signing Dan Lardner on Saturday but was quick to show what he is capable of two days later.

Cooper scored twice and set up a Dave Percival goal before Lardner was brought on to create Dave Mitchell's fourth.

With four goal-hungry strikers now in his squad and his side a point clear at the top of the table, Kirkpatrick is content.

He said: "Coops was fantastic on Monday but then Dan has also been great since signing. We also have Percival and Mitchell who are proven strikers to leave me with a very nice problem.

"After the Tytherington game it was important to follow up with a win and we did that with a very mature performance."

Cooper opened the scoring on 14 minutes when he latched on to Percival's pull back and fired the ball into the roof of the net.

The roles were reversed 13 minutes later when Cooper headed the ball into the path of Percival and he finished calmly under pressure from Paul Hudson.

Cooper made it 3-0 after 40 minutes after taking the ball past one defender and drilling a shot past Stuart Pound into the bottom corner of the net. After the break, Trowbridge continued their domination but could only add the final goal with three minutes left when Mitchell tapped home from close range.

l Trowbridge travel to Winterbourne tomorrow before travelling to Malmesbury on Wednesday.