Sauchie ............................. 1 Musselburgh ..................... 5 Last season’s Scottish Junior Cup finalists, Musselburgh, went goal crazy against Sauchie at Beechwood Park last Saturday with a stunning display of clinical finishing.

This was not a dirty game by any measure yet both teams finished with ten men on the park.

Again Sauchie shuffled the pack with Alistair Brown making a start along with the re-introduction of the wiry Ant McTaggart.

Sauchie made an instant start and should have opened the scoring in the opening few minutes.

Stuart Love released Ryan Millar and his shot rattled the crossbar with the keeper beaten all ends up.

At the other end Ross Harkness parried a Jed Davie shot with Sean Jamieson sending the loose ball into the side netting as the game swung from end to end stuff in a frantic opening.

The visitors took the lead in 27 minutes when a slack pass out of defence was controlled by Kevin Bracks, who quickly picked out Jamieson and the striker raced into the box to fire home.

Musselburgh doubled their advantage a minute later with the Sauchie defence all at sea. Jamieson gathered a long clearance to move in from the right and blast into the net.

On the stroke of half time Sauchie went down to ten men. Jordan Tapping was shown his second red card of the season for his tackle on Steven Thomson as the Mussie man moved in towards goal.

And the East Lothian side immediately hammered home their numerical advantage with a third goal. The free kick was blocked as far as Davie and he made no mistake as he drilled his shot through the keepers legs for 3-0.

Ten-man Sauchie looked sharper after the break. Iain Syme moved down the left and found Love who turned quickly to get in a shot that was pushed around the post by Ross Combe.

The visiting keeper then blocked a Love header onto the post then parried the return as the ‘burgh goal led a charmed life. Sean Palizcka brought the visitors forward and rattled the Sauchie crossbar.

Then Jamieson thought he had struck his hat trick when he shot past the home keeper, but the ball rattled the inside of one upright, ran along the line to hit the other post and then bounce clear.

Fraser Duncan’s men got a goal back on 62 minutes. McTaggart worked hard on the edge of the box and squared for Brian Morgan who swept the ball into the far corner from 25 yards for a lovely goal.

Sauchie had their tails up now and were looking for more goals, but they were again caught out by a slick Musselburgh breakaway.

The visitors broke forward with Jamieson turning provider allowing Sean Conaghan to sprint forward and fire the ball home from the edge of the box to make it 4-1.

Sauchie’s day went from bad to worse when their guests completed the scoring six minutes later. Harkness could only clear the ball as far as Conaghan who looked up and picked out the unmarked Palizcka and he blasted into the postage stamp corner to seal a 5-1 rout.

With three minutes left, the referee levelled the numbers when he red carded Kamran Tufail for a tackle on Gary Bonnes, but the afternoon ended in misery for the Beechwood Park outfit.

Sauchie: Harkness, Brown (Bonnes), Boyle, Dolan (McAdam), Tapping, McCulloch, Morgan, McTaggart, Millar (Morrison), Love, Syme.