HATS OFF TO SUPER BARRY

LOUIE Barry was praised by Stockport boss Dave Challinor after his first-half cracker sunk Wrexham.

- Mike Glendinning

The two sides have been locked together through the climb from non-league football to League One, but it took a brilliant curler midway through the first half to settle matters at Edgeley Park.

And the manager was quick to praise his leading scorer, who made it 11 goals in the league this season.

"That's a Louie Barry goal, he does that with very pleasing regularity," he said.

"I go back to my first day at the club when he came in and flipped one to his right foot and smashed it in that far side. And that's his goal, his finish."

"You might know he's going to do it, but stopping him is another matter."

By Mike Glendinning Challinor went on: "Once Louie scored, that 20 or 40 minutes was as good as we've been and we made a very good team struggle to deal with us.

"We played some really good stuff in the second half.