Bradford Park Avenue 3 AFC Telford 1

The Bucks had led through Adam Farrell but James Knowles equalised, before a goal from Nicky Boshell and a penalty from Richard Marshall left them well beaten.

Telford had threatened in the first quarter of an hour and Knowles had nearly headed into his own net, trying to clear the danger from Matthew McGinn's long throw-in.

The breakthrough came on 15 minutes. Wes Baynes broke clear in space on the right wing, to put in a great cross that was met by the head of Adam Farrell at the near post to nod the visitors ahead.

Farrell then was denied by the body of Avenue goalkeeper John Lamb on 18 minutes as Telford pressed forward, the home shot-stopper also seeing Matthew McGinn's low shot travel wide.

But Avenue took hold of the game and forced Ryan Young in the Bucks goal to parry away Paul Walker's shot from outside of the area on 25. Captain Nathan Hotte couldn't convert the rebound.

Three minutes later, the equaliser the home side had been threatening came, when Young came out through a ruck of bodies to catch a Hotte free-kick in and missed it by an absolute mile.

The ball went behind his grasp and onto the head of Knowles, who reacted fastest to restore parity and they could have scored more goals before the break.

Just a minute later, Young pushed the ball away – shaving the post in process – from Alex Davidson's shoot after Walker's pass found him inside the box.

It was Baynes to the rescue for Telford four minutes before the break as he blocked Boshell's goal-bound effort, while Chib Chilaka also fired wide.

Boshell tried his luck from the edge of the box before half-time and a relatively tame effort slipped from Young's grasp, but he managed to gather the ball at the second attempt.

If Telford were abject in the first-half they got worse after the break and Dan Preston had to make a vital block on 54 minutes to stop Hotte's shot inside the box.

Sean Clancy had been shown the yellow card a minute earlier for a late challenge on Hotte, as the away side battled to get forward.

Clancy then saw a promising ball sprayed out wide intercepted by Chilaka two minutes later, only for McGinn to chop him down for a second Bucks booking.

On 62 minutes a blow Telford would never recover from came their way as the ball dropped to Boshell, with all of the defenders appealing for offside, in the box.

With the linesman's flag down, Boshell poised himself and finished past the onrushing Young to put Avenue into the lead for the first time.

With 20 minutes left, Telford threw on striker Andy Owens and winger Robbie Booth for defender Neill Byrne and attacker Sean Clancy, changing from a 5-3-2 to a 4-4-2 in the search for an equaliser.

Telford then fluffed two great chances of an equaliser. McGinn went close before Tony Gray missed a header from six yards that should have hit the target.

And they spurned another couple of opportunities in the two minutes that preceded the killer goal through substitutes Booth and Owens. Booth fired over, while Owens' effort was easy for Lamb.

And it was game over on 76 minutes when Davidson ran onto a ball over the top and took a touch to take it away from Young, whose outstretched arms tripped the Avenue striker up.

Young escaped with a booking but there was still a penalty to contend with and Marshall took the spot kick well, firing low to the left underneath the goalkeeper's dive to make it 3-1.

It could have been worse – Hotte blasted wide of the mark one minute into five of stoppage time as Liam Watson's men became the first side to lose at the Avenue this season.