Aylesbury 4 Petersfield Town 0: PETERSFIELD Town were well beaten in their league trip to Aylesbury on Tuesday night.

The Rams can have few complaints about the defeat, with the home side running in two late goals to compound the away side’s misery.

Petersfield would be entitled to a grumble about some indifferent decision making from the match officials, which if they had seen a dangerous, lunging studs up tackle in the first half and what appeared to be two elbows thrown in the second, Petersfield may well have benefitted from having a numerical advantage.

Other than that though the Rams rarely threatened the home goal and the only real save keeper James Weatherill had to make came in the opening ten minutes.

Joe Richardson received the ball inside the penalty area and he had the space to try his luck on goal but his shot lacked power and went straight to the keeper.

Aylesbury took the lead in bizarre circumstances after 21 minutes. A deep cross into the box was headed back towards keeper Anthony Ender by Rams skipper Jamie Ford.

However, Ender moved towards Ford rather than waiting for the ball to come to him and as he struggled to change direction Lynton Goss reacted quickest to reach the point where the ball hit the ground first and he slid in to push the ball over the line.

The home side doubled their advantage five minutes later after a good passing move through midfield fed the ball to Goss, who was just inside the penalty area.

He fired off a low shot, which Ender managed to get a hand to by diving to his right, but it squirmed past him and trickled over the line.

Aylesbury had two other decent chances before half time – the first one Ender blocked with his legs as he dived the wrong way and Brian Haule got clear inside the box but Ender made a good save from his low shot.

Petersfield should have got on the scoresheet ten minutes into the second half when Oliver Bailey twisted and turned on the left hand side of the penalty area to work himself some space to cross the ball.

The cross went to the far post where it fell to Howard Neighbour – who tried to turn and hook his shot into the near corner of the goal but his effort went into the side netting.

With 15 minutes to go Petersfield got a warning of what was to come late on in the game after Gareth Price burst clean through in the middle of the pitch but his rising shot went straight into the hands of Ender.

Aylesbury got their third goal with five minutes remaining when Price again had all the time and space he needed to take the ball into the penalty area before he fired his shot across Ender and into the far corner of the net.

Aylesbury’s fourth goal three minutes later was almost a carbon copy of the third, except this time Goss was the man who got clear of the Rams’ defence and he fired home to complete his hat-trick.

Petersfield: Ender, O Searle, Buckland (Wain), Green (Norgate), Needham, Ford, Richardson, Neal, Neighbour, Briggs, Bailey. Subs not used: Saunders, Silver, Eaton.