Tranmere Rovers 4-1 AFC Fylde

Tranmere boosted their play-off push with an emphatic victory over AFC Fylde.

Ritchie Sutton opened the scoring in the 36th minute, volleying home from James Norwood's header.

He made it 2-0 just before the break, collecting the rebound after Jay Lynch could only parry Oliver Norburn's shot.

Connor Jennings fired in from the edge of the area eight minutes into the second half, and, although Jonny Smith curled home a goal for the visitors just before the hour, a second goal from distance from Jennings settled matters with 20 minutes to go.

There was still time for Danny Rowe to hit the crossbar for Fylde, but Tranmere took three points that move them into the top six.

Match report supplied by the Press Association.

• Line-ups
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Line-ups

Tranmere

• 1Davies
• 31Clarke
• 2Buxton
• 5McNulty
• 4Sutton
• 32BanksSubstituted forHughesat 70'minutes
• 15NorburnBooked at 65mins
• 10Norwood
• 11Jennings
• 18Mottley-HenrySubstituted forGumbsat 81'minutes
• 9CookSubstituted forMcDonaghat 85'minutes

Substitutes

• 24Hughes
• 22McDonagh
• 28Gumbs
• 25Pilling
• 29Cole

Fylde

• 13Lynch
• 5Tunnicliffe
• 24Edmundson
• 3Francis-Angol
• 15Grand
• 2Montrose
• 18SmithSubstituted forMcCreadyat 75'minutes
• 12TaylorSubstituted forBondat 74'minutes
• 20TasdemirSubstituted forMuldoonat 58'minutes
• 16Richards
• 9Rowe

Substitutes

• 22Burke
• 14McCready
• 6Bond
• 17Blinkhorn
• 11Muldoon

Referee:

Simon Barrow

Attendance:

6,669

Live Text

1. Post update

   Match ends, Tranmere Rovers 4, AFC Fylde 1.

2. 90'

   Full Time

   Second Half ends, Tranmere Rovers 4, AFC Fylde 1.

3. 85'

   Substitution

   Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Gerry McDonagh replaces Andy Cook.

4. 81'

   Substitution

   Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Evan Gumbs replaces Dylan Mottley-Henry.

5. 75'

   Substitution

   Substitution, AFC Fylde. Tom McCready replaces Johnny Smith.

6. 74'

   Substitution

   Substitution, AFC Fylde. Andy Bond replaces Jason Taylor.

7. 70'

   Substitution

   Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Jeff Hughes replaces Oliver Banks.

8. 68'

   Goal!

   Goal! Tranmere Rovers 4, AFC Fylde 1. Connor Jennings (Tranmere Rovers).

9. 65'

   Booking

   Oliver Norburn (Tranmere Rovers) is shown the yellow card.

10. 58'

    Substitution

    Substitution, AFC Fylde. Jack Muldoon replaces Serhat Tasdemir.

11. 58'

    Goal!

    Goal! Tranmere Rovers 3, AFC Fylde 1. Johnny Smith (AFC Fylde).

12. 52'

    Goal!

    Goal! Tranmere Rovers 3, AFC Fylde 0. Connor Jennings (Tranmere Rovers).

13. Second Half

    Second Half begins Tranmere Rovers 2, AFC Fylde 0.

14. 45'

    Half Time

    First Half ends, Tranmere Rovers 2, AFC Fylde 0.

15. 43'

    Goal!

    Goal! Tranmere Rovers 2, AFC Fylde 0. Ritchie Sutton (Tranmere Rovers).

16. 37'

    Goal!

    Goal! Tranmere Rovers 1, AFC Fylde 0. Ritchie Sutton (Tranmere Rovers).

17. Kick Off

    First Half begins.

18. Posted at 14:16 26 Dec 201714:16 26 Dec 2017

    Post update

    Lineups are announced and players are warming up.