Rhyl cruise in to last 32 of FAW Amateur Trophy with 6-0 away win

Within seconds of the kick-off, Rhyl were on the scoreboard, after a quick attacking move down the right saw Chris Bennett win a corner.

Dead ball specialist Adam Hold sent the ball deep into the danger area; Phoenix failed to clear it and Meirion Pughe was able to get enough on the ball to score his first for Rhyl and the game.

The early pressure and difference in class began to show as the Lilywhites moved the ball, leaving the home side chasing shadows at times.

And on 13 minutes, the lead was doubled; Alex Jones finding Kieran Ellis free in the box, before he turned and rifled the ball through a crowd into the bulging net.

The goals kept coming, and on 25 minutes a wonderful team move that started with Pughe and James Jones at the back ended with Ellis knocking the ball down to James Cairns.

He opened his body and let rip a thunderbolt of a finish into the top corner to make it 3-0.

Just before the break, Alex Jones picked up the ball on the right of midfield and carried it forward, playing a one-two with Ellis, and riding two tackles.

Then, he went around the Phoenix goalkeeper and slotted the ball into the goal, to ensure Rhyl went in to the break 4-0 to the good.

The second half started the same as the first; moving quickly up the pitch, the Phoenix defence was at sixes and sevens before Ellis was fouled on the edge of the box.

Hold stepped to take the free-kick, and whipped the ball over the wall and under the bar, leaving the goalkeeper in a heap and the ball in the back of the net to make it 5-0.

The rout was complete on 69 minutes, with Macauley Taylor this time the provider.

The ball came in from the left before a scramble in the box began, before Oli Staveley placed the ball out of the goalkeeper’s reach to secure Rhyl’s sixth.

Rhyl will learn their fifth round opponents this week.

They will be back in league action at Belle Vue next Saturday (December 2), when they welcome Brickfield Rangers.