3 Goalscorers and 3 points as Daisy make it 5 wins on the bounce

Daisy Hill extend their winning run to five matches with a 3-1 win against Colne on Monday night in the North West Counties First Division North fixture.

Nov 4, 2025
3 Goalscorers and 3 points as Daisy make it 5 wins on the bounce
Daisy skipper Jacob Ridings in action against Colne. Picture by Hadia Azad

Fionn Murphy’s first goal for Daisy put them one up before Miles Storey equalized midway through the first half.

Second half goals from Ntumba Massanka and Liam Sheppard fired Daisy Hill to victory leaving Daisy captain Jacob Ridings positive about the camp and the club.

“We've got growing attendances at the club now, which is great, and it's brilliant when you can put on a performance that they can be happy with”, said Ridings.

 "The first goal was brilliant, Fionn’s done really well to finish from Shep's (Liam Sheppard’s) cross, and we work on that in training all the time. Repetitions of getting the ball into the final third, playing the ball across the box, so it's really good to see that the work in training has paid off in a game.

 “One criticism of us at the moment is that when we are scoring, we're allowing teams to come back into the game, and then it becomes a battle. The wins that we've had in the last few weeks, we've not had any of them easy, we've had to fight for all of them.

 “But I think the difference today was after half-time, I think we managed the game much better when we got ahead in the second-half. I think we protected the lead really well and played some nice stuff.

 "What's really pleasing is the variety of scorers, it's nice to see that the goals have been spread out a little bit across the front line today. Hopefully they can take confidence from that and carry that forward.

 “Anyone can beat anyone in this league, you can't get complacent, but that makes it even more special when you do pick up the wins like we are right now”.

 After a combative first 15 minutes Daisy Hill put themselves into the lead as Fionn Murphy fired in his first for the club. Fionn started the move taking a long ball down and passing to Ntumba Massanka who then found Liam Sheppard on the wing, and he whipped in a low ball for Fionn Murphy to arrive and slot his shot underneath Harry Turner.

Only nine minutes later the match was back level as Miles Storey headed into the top right corner from a Barney Wiggin cross after Wiggin won the ball back high after some good pressure.

Liam Sheppard nearly added a goal to his assist 38 minutes in as Ridings’ low cross found Sheppard whose goal bound shot forced a quick reaction by Turner who got down well to tip the ball wide.

The teams went in level and Daisy emerged the better side in the early parts of the second half.

Declan Baldwin nearly capitalised on the early pressure as he rattled the crossbar from 30 yards with a screamer of an effort 55 minutes in.

Seven minutes later Daisy Hill grabbed the lead as Massanka scored from 35 yards into an empty net. Turner had got to a long ball in behind just before Sheppard, but his clearance unfortunately landed to Massanka who controlled and cooly curled the ball into the goal.

Only a minute later Sheppard had a chance to kill the game off as he found his way in at goal but his outside of the foot effort was palmed away by Turner.

Daisy continued to be in complete control of the second half but had to wait until the 94th minute when the game was put beyond any reasonable doubt. 

Kris Holt drove with the ball from the centre circle before slipping Sheppard in who calmy slotted into the bottom right corner to extend the Cutters winning run and taking his goal tally to 10 this season.

Daisy are back in action Saturday when they travel to the Marley Stadium to face Steeton in the North West Counties First Division North (3.00pm).