Blackpool 3 Telford 1 Scorers. Pool: Murphy 8, Ormerod 45, 66. Telford: Martindale 65 TWO goals from Brett Ormerod and one from John Murphy was enough for Pool to bounce back from the nightmare at Barnet and progress to the second round of the FA Cup.
Despite long spells of pressure and a succession of corners from Telford, the home side never looked like coming away without victory.
Pool got off to a perfect start on nine minutes when, after teasing the right back, Simpson planted a curling cross towards Murphy who expertly volleyed past the Telford keeper.
To their credit, Telford kept their heads up and after a string of corners towards the end of the half, only a world class save from Jon Kennedy denied Gary Martindale an equaliser.
But Pool were gifted a second in first half injury time. Murphy received the ball in the clear courtesy of a mix-up at the heart of the Telford defence between ex-Blackpool player Neil Moore and Brian Gayle.
Murphy's effort was pushed away from Albrghton only for it to fall to Ormerod who smashed the ball into the top corner to make it 2-0. The second half started as the first ended. Telford continued to win corner after corner but failed to create any scoring opportunities.
The only chance of the first 20 minutes of the half came from a powerful Jake Edwards cross which flew past Kennedy's goal mouth but there was no Telford shirt there to tap it in.
Then came the moment that the Blackpool fans thought they would never see again. Striker Chris Malkin made his Bloomfield Road comeback, coming on for Steve Palmer.
His intervention seemed to inspire Telford and within minutes they halved the Blackpool advantage.
The goal came from a superb volley by Gary Martindale from a deep cross and suddenly the game wasn't so secure for the Seasiders.
But straight from the kick off Paul Simpson picked out Brett Ormerod in the box. Ormerod pulled the ball out the air, made room for himself and blasted the ball into the net.
With the crowd urging Ormerod on to score his hat-trick he came mighty close but some close saves and near misses meant he had to be satisfied with his brace.
And in pouring rain the final whistle blew signalling at least something for Pool fans to cheer about.
Team: Blackpool: Kennedy, Hughes, O'Connor, Reid, Hills, Coid, Wellens, Collins, Simpson, Ormerod, J Murphy.
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