Match Report: Darlington 4-0 Bury

Darlington faced Bury for the first time in over 16 years, when The Shakers travelled up to County Durham on Saturday, for their FA Trophy tie with The Quakers.

It was a great November’s afternoon for Darlington’s new manager Craig Elliott and attacker Mark Beck, as the

striker grabbed all four goals 0f the game.

The home side got off to the perfect start just 75 seconds in, when Dylan Stephenson’s lofted cross was met by an unmarked Mark Beck to give Darlington the lead.

Bury responded well to the early setback though and had plenty of the ball, but were guilty of overplaying around the Darlington box when perhaps they should’ve pulled the trigger, and they went into the break one nil down.

The away side started the second half well, and missed arguably their best chance of the game when Dom Telford set up Owen Robinson, who fired wide from about six yards out.

They were made to rue those missed chances, when after some nice build up, Beck headed home Ciaran Thompson’s chipped ball into the box on 65 minutes.

Following another Stephenson set-up just moments later, Beck secured the match ball, with a nice driven shot into the corner.

There was no stopping him now, as he got his fourth on 75 minutes,  poking home a Dylan Stephenson cross from a yard out, to complete the rout.