Newtown 5 Caernarfon Town 0

NEWTOWN emphatically booked a place in the fourth round of the Nathaniel MG Cup against an outclassed Caernarfon Town tonight.

Both sides made changes from the previous weekend but it was the home side which proved totally dominant in one of the most one sided contests witnessed at Latham Park in several years.

The Robins dominated from the opening minute with ex-Caernarfon favourite Jamie Breese seeing a penalty claim rejected and heading a Callum Roberts cross over the bar inside the first quarter of an hour.

Caernarfon goalkeeper Tyler French was called upon to smother a low shot from Lifumpa Mwandwe before producing a wonderful double save to deny Nick Rushton and Craig Williams as Newtown continued to press.

Remarkably Caernarfon almost led with their first attack of the tie when Calum Huxley carved room for a shot in the box only to be denied by a wonderful save from home goalkeeper Dave Jones from close range after 31 minutes.

Newtown were soon back on top and the pressure yielded a breakthrough almost immediately with Jamie Rowland breaking to the left byline before crossing for Breese to poke home on the far post.

For the remainder of the half the home side applied pressure and patiently probed as the stretched Caernarfon defence resisted.

However on the stroke of half-time the visitors were caught flat footed as Mwandwe burst through from his own half to round French and slot into an empty net.

Newtown started the second-half with the dominance of the first with Breese testing French while Rowland continued to impress in midfield with some intelligent running and link-up play.

On 56 minutes Newtown added a third when Rowland released Breese down the right to cross for Rushton who lifted the ball past an advancing French to all but settle the tie.

Mwandwe's left wing cross was headed wide by Rushton before another cross from the ex-Shrewsbury youngster picked out substitute Aaron Williams who showed strength before picking his spot with his first touch of the game.

Newtown still had 25 minutes to add to their tally with Caernarfon their own worst enemies at times as their attempts to play out from the back were repeatedly seized upon by an industrious home midfield which ensured the Canaries rarely left their own half.

The inevitable fifth goal arrived on 72 minutes with substitute Jordan Evans releasing Craig Williams with a weighted throughball for the home skipper to blast home from 12 yards.

A carbon copy move three minutes later almost saw Williams add his second only to be denied by a point blank save from French who produced another late save to deny Jordan Evans as Newtown threatened to add further goals to their tally late on.

However in the end the home faithful had to be content with five goals, an emphatic return to winning ways and a morale-boosting display ahead of the JD Welsh Cup visit of Carmarthen Town on Saturday.

NEWTOWN: Jones, Taylor, Roberts, Sutton (Mills-Evans 46), Mwandwe (Evans 68), Rushton, Breese (A Williams 63), Rowland, C Williams, Hughes, Walker. Subs: M Williams, Downs, Davies, Arsan

CAERNARFON: French, Bailey, G Williams (Donahue 63), Gosset, Hayes, Thomas, Huxley, Simpson, R Williams, Beaumont (A Williams 68), Dafydd. Subs: Owen, S Evans,