Evo-Stik League Division One North: Tadcaster Albion 1 Prescot Cables 2

A FIRST-HALF red card to Josh Barrett helped Prescot Cables to all three points at the i2i Stadium.

Lloyd Dean broke the deadlock just after the hour with a stunning bicycle kick before Dom Marie doubled their lead moments later.

Jason Mycoe lashed one home in stoppage time but it was too little too late for Albion.

Taddy boss Michael Morton made three changes to the previous week's FA Cup defeat to Colne as Josh Grant, Sam Akeroyd and Danny Frost were all handed starts.

On a scorching day in 'Costa Del Tadcaster', it was the Merseysiders who started the brighter as Harry Cain and Marie both spurned half-chances.

Cables then had the ball in the net but Marie's glancing header was ruled out for offside.

There was little goalmouth action in the first 45 minutes but there were plenty of questions being asked to the referee.

Aiden Savory went down off the ball in the penalty area, but Albion's appeals were waved away.

When Taddy did create some space in the final third to pull the trigger, a blue shirt was well positioned to block.

However the main talking point of the first half wasn't a piece of football but was a dismissal as tensions boiled over five minutes from the break.

After a trio of full-blooded challenges, you could feel that a scuffle was going to break out, and that's exactly what happened as Alan Burton and Josh Grant exchanged pushes before lots of bodies piled in.

After four minutes of the officials trying to sort everything out, Taddy defender Josh Barrett was shown a straight red card for a push in the face, much to the anger of the Brewers' bench and players.

Grant and Burton – the instigators of the melee – were shown yellow cards.

The dismissal forced Morton to move the versatile Savory back into central defence for the second half.

Prescot opened the scoring just after the hour, and there was nothing that could have been done to stop it.

A cross from the left was met by an incredible overhead kick by Dean from just inside the penalty area.

The lead was then doubled six minutes later when Marie burst down the left, cut infield and fired into the bottom corner to leave Albion with a mountain to climb.

Taddy continued to plug away, however, but as they ventured more bodies forward for a way back into the contest, Prescot tried to make absolutely sure.

Substitute Tunde Owolabi was put clean through on goal seconds after entering the field but goalkeeper Michael Ingham produced an outstanding save to tip the ball over the bar.

From the resulting corner, Owolabi was denied by Ingham again as his header was beaten away.

Taddy did manage to pull a goal back in stoppage time as substitute Mycoe lashed in from a corner.

It was just too late to try and salvage a point though as Prescot saw out the victory.

Tadcaster Albion: Ingham, Hardy, Grant, Sellars (Crouz 70), Milne (captain), Barrett, Murray (Mycoe 78), Akeroyd (Roper 61), Corner, Frost, Savory. Unused substitutes: Dixon, Stewart.

Prescot Cables: Burgess, Scarisbrick, Fernandes, McCulloch, Herbert, Conte, Faux, Burton, Marie, Dean, Cain.