Exmouth Town will be looking to build on their excellent victory at Thatcham last Saturday when they welcome promotion contenders, Mousehole, to their Complete Infrastructure Stadium this Wednesday kick off 7.45pm.
Making their first visit to Thatcham Town found themselves a goal down after just six minutes but rallied to equalise on twenty four minutes, Nelson Iscgaun doing well to head down a long cross into the path of Ben Griffith to smash home. With Town struggling to find any cohesion in their play Thatcham were generally on top and regained the lead on thirty minutes. Frankie Phillips was deemed to have brought down an attacker who duly converted the resulting penalty.
Last ditch defending saw Town keep the deficit to just the one goal at the break when the introduction of Ace High for the second half changed the course of this game. After one of his crosses had been narrowly missed by Tom Bath the same combination made no mistake on fifty seven minutes with Bath calmly slotting home another pin point cross.
With Town now in the ascendency they took the lead on seventy three minutes. Not for the first time this season it was another dangerous corner from Joe Belsten that set up the goal. Headed back by Mike Landricombe it was superbly met by High to head home for his 140th goal in Town’s colours.
As Thatcham tried to find an equaliser Belsten made one important block before Callum Shipton almost made it four but the crossbar denied him.
After two successive defeats this was a welcome return to winning ways and Town will no doubt have to dig deep again first against Mousehole and then on Saturday when they make another long journey to Oxfordshire to face Didcot Town.
Town are currently fourth in the table with nineteen points from ten games played. Mousehole have fifteen points but have two games in hand whilst Didcot have fourteen points from ten games.
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