IT was a day to forget for Denbigh Town as their unbeaten Ardal North West League record was ended at Llay Welfare.

Mike Gadie's hosts swept to a thumping 5-1 triumph in a game where Denbigh struggled to get going.

Town began the contest with the same starting XI that had comprehensively beaten Felinheli in the last outing two weeks ago.

Playing into a strong wind in the first half, Denbigh fell behind after just eight minutes.

Kian Turton broke into Denbigh’s area and his shot took a slight deflection to wrong-foot keeper Joe Griffith.

Denbigh responded with Lee Davey’s shot hitting the side netting, while Sam Tate's corner created a goalmouth scramble when Town players twice had chances to equalise, but they were thwarted by some stern Llay defending.

Meanwhile, Llay were using the wind to their advantage and their inswinging set pieces from corners were putting pressure on Denbigh’s defence.

This paid off after 32 minutes when Town cleared a corner, but only as far as Adam Davies and his cross was headed in by Ryan Merrill.

Sam Jones and Stuart Jones both had attempts as Denbigh looked to pull a goal back prior to the interval.

Town had the advantage of the wind at their backs in the second period, but they were unable to crack the solid Llay defence, with Jack Edwards and Ryan Merrill giving the strikers little leeway.

Mark Roberts had a header that went wide, Sam Tate's goal bound shot was deflected for a corner and Jake Walker’s header was comfortably saved by Raynor.

Jonathon Taylor rattled the goal post from a free kick at the other end, before Llay grabbed their third goal.

A cross to the far post was met by Taylor’s head to give Griffith no chance

things continued to go the way of the hosts as Griffith raced from his goal to try and stop an attacker soon after.

His challenge was too rash and referee Martin Trigg pointed to the spot, showing the keeper a yellow card.

Tom Wells fired home Llay’s fourth from the spot.

Sion Jones pulled a consolation goal back for Denbigh with a fine strike from outside the area on 86 minutes, but the game was lost by now.

To add to Denbigh’s woes, centre half Stuart Jones was then red carded for a high tackle and with Denbigh having 10 men, Llay scored their fifth a minute later through substitute Jonathon Collo.

A minute later and Collo received his second yellow card for foul language.

It was a disappointing result for Denbigh and an end to an impressive unbeaten league run of 10 games.

To maintain their challenge on league leaders Porthmadog, they need to return to winning ways by bouncing back after this defeat with a better performance against Brymbo next Friday night.