Andy Morrison was "absolutely chuffed to bits" after Connah's Quay Nomads "absolutely battered" Cefn Druids.

The league leaders could have been 2-0 down after seven minutes, but Neil Ashton, who was later sent-off, missed his spot-kick to add to Nathan Peate's opener.

From there the game was turned on its head as Michael Bakare, Rob Hughes and Callum Morris struck second-half goals to hand Nomads a 3-1 win - their eighth of the campaign.

Morrison declared: "It was an outstanding performance.

"The fact that we could have been 2-0 down is the biggest travesty you will ever see in football.

"We dominated the first-half, we dominated the second-half, we've dominated the whole game.

"We've moved the ball, we created overloads, we dominated possession, we've put countless balls into their box, causing them no end of problems, but nothing would fall for us.

"We could have been 2-0 up in the first five minutes we started that well and then we get done by a really poor defensive decision.

"We then give the penalty away, which we save and that is the turning point in the game.

"For the next half an hour we've dominated them, but can't get a goal and we've been really brave in the second-half."

Morrison replaced Ryan Wignall and Michael Wilde with Hughes and Andy Owens at the break, the changes having the desired effect.

He explained: "I've made two changes at half time, one to protect Ryan Wignall and there is a reason for that.

"I'm telling you, if you look statistically, more players are booked against Cefn Druids than any other team.

"They are incessantly at the referee, they are continually moaning collectively to get players booked.

"It's the right result at the end. Let them target Ryan Wignall, let them continually moan, the right result in the end is 3-1 and it could have been five or six. We've absolutely battered them the whole game and I'm absolutely chuffed to bits because it's so easy to fall down in those type of games."

Druids boss Huw Griffiths shrugged off criticism of his side's approach to proceedings, instead focusing on a missed opportunity to pick up at least a point at the Deeside Stadium.

"Individual errors have cost us," said Griffiths, who was without key trio Alec Mudimu, Ryan Kershaw and Arek Piskorski. "We spoke about making sure our concentration levels and decision making was right and we couldn't do that over 90 minutes.

"I thought we gave a good account of ourselves for large parts of the game. We had to match them for intensity and desire and we won't roll over for anyone.

"There were two teams putting themselves about, but over the 90 minutes they were better than us. They are currently the best team in the league, though."

On Ashton's missed penalty, Griffiths conceded: "It was the major turning point. They could have been 2-0 up after three minutes, but we scored and then missed a penalty, which proved costly."