Wealdstone 3 – 1 Chesham United
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Chesham UnitedWith all the if’s but’s and maybe’s flying around as Stones season seems to have slipped away, two league wins in four days have at the very least lifted the spirits.
Where Saturday’s result was a scrappy win in awful weather, the match against Chesham was fast paced good football played by both sides.
Stones soo got into their stride with Marvin Morgan causing early problems for the visiting defence, no more so than when he touched the ball round his marker and ran on to hit a sweet first time cross into the Chesham box. It eluded the defence and fell to the late arriving Richard Jolly – his touch inside was into the stride of Ben Alexander who nudged the ball over the visiting keeper to give Stones the lead on nine minutes.
Chesham equalised from their first meaningful attack as a shop from Sippets curled onto the inside of the post and bounced out across the six yard box where Lawford fired home.
Stones continued to press as the forwards consistently beat their defenders to the ball, forcing Chesham onto the back foot – Jolly and Alexander both had chances to restore Stones lead, but to no avail as the half finished 1 – 1.
The second half saw Chesham start brightly and they could have scored on 55 minutes when first Carter and then Hemmerdinger from the goal line made desperate saves. This started Stones half and they pressed forward in waves forcing the visitors back. A long ball from Butler found Courtnage out wide and his first time ball to Morgan allowed him to draw the defence – he then passed back to Courtnage whose first time cross was flicked on at the edge of the six yard box by Alexander and Jolly at the back post made no mistake from 5 yards.
Stones third came as a result of an error in the Chesham defence as a Courtnage corner swung into the near post – Scarlett and Ramsey both went for the ball, neither making a clean contact, and Butler was on hand to score Stones third.
It was the best performance for a while and leaves just a faint glimmer of hope for what might be rather than for what might have been…
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