EXPRESS'S up and down season took an up turn at a wet and muddy Victoria Park last Sunday as they followed up a poor showing the previous week with a comfortable win over The Bridge.

EXPRESS 5, THE BRIDGE 1

Kicking uphill in the first half the home side were rarely troubled and dominated the opening encounters. Leading scorer Jamie Roberts ending the stalemate and away keeper's resilience on 20 minutes when breaking through a well marshalled off side trap to coolly beat the keeper.

Ten minutes later it was Roberts again, this time latching onto a through ball from Stu Summers to make it 2-0.

Five minutes before the break Matt Clifford's long range shot could only be parried by the keeper with Roberts on hand to tap in the rebound for his hat-trick.

The Bridge got into the game more in the second half catching Express keeper Gary Lloyd cold with a long range effort to make it 3-1.

Within five minutes though the Express midfield of Mark Taylor, Jason Lloyd, Sean Clarke and Jason Jones got back in their stride and began running the show again, setting up Roberts for his fourth to put the game out of reach with 15 minutes left. It was left to sub Andy Bottomley to wrap up the scoring five minutes from time with a superb strike from 20 yards.

The match ball was sponsored by PH Motors.

This Sunday Express are away at Kays, players meet 9.30am Express or 10am Cinderella ground, Worcester.