The venue is the Neston Recreation Centre, with the sports centre building just visible through the trees and beyond the floodlit artificial pitch that is today staging hockey matches.
The weather is wet for much of the afternoon, with the trees providing welcome shelter for spectators and substitutes alike.
The match is clearly a potential banana-skin for Middlewich, particularly as they have not made the best start to the season in their league, with a very well grassed pitch potentially a further leveller.
The hosts gave a good account of themselves from the off, although their only real chances are restricted to long range efforts, and Middlewich look the more dangerous team, eventually taking a 27th minute lead, Martin Bell breaking on to a loose ball and finishing confidently as home keeper Ben Owens narrowed the angle.
Middlewich are unable to rest on their laurels until the second goal arrives on 64 minutes, with John Shakeshaft's header from this Adam Morris corner finding its way into the net through a crowded goalmouth.
Neston are unable to find the consolation goal that their efforts perhaps deserve, and another Martin Bell strike, finished at the second attempt, wraps up a 3-0 win for the visitors.
