“Bartosz Cybulski opens the scoring from a well-worked corner routine, giving Spalding an early lead they would never relinquish.”
Pivotal“Dan Jarvis doubles Spalding's advantage, continuing the home side's dominant start and putting further daylight between the two sides.”
Pivotal“Dan Barton finishes off a dominant first-half showing by making it three, effectively ending Bury Town's hopes of a cup upset.”
Pivotal
Spalding United
Bury Town
Spalding United made light work of Bury Town, blitzing their non-league visitors with three goals inside the opening 38 minutes to kill the tie as a contest. Bartosz Cybulski set the tone with an early strike from a corner, before Dan Jarvis doubled the lead and Dan Barton added a third before the half-hour mark had even passed. Despite Bury Town enjoying more possession overall (54% to 46%), it was Spalding who dictated the tempo of the game, racking up 46 dangerous attacks compared to Bury's 26 - a stat that tells the real story of this FA Cup mismatch. A fourth goal in the second half, coming after a quiet 39-minute stretch, merely rubber-stamped a comfortable night's work and sent Spalding into the next round with minimal fuss.
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Spalding United and Bury Town return to action just three days after a 1-1 draw at Ram Meadow forced this winner-takes-all replay. With no second chances in the FA Cup, one of these sides will see their qualifying run end tonight at Sir Halley Stewart Field.
