Exmouth Town welcome Malvern Town to their Complete Infrastructure Stadium this Saturday looking to extend their five match unbeaten run, their latest success being a 2-0 victory over Shaftesbury last Saturday.

This victory came on the back of an excellent 4-0 away win in midweek over Bashley. Despite having a man sent off they led at the break thanks to a superb strike from Ollie Knowles. After Bashley were also reduced to ten it needed another brilliant save from Frankie Phillips from the penalty spot to deny them an equaliser before it became the Tom Bath show with a well taken hat trick.

On Saturday they needed to show their determination and resilience to overcome an uncompromising Shaftesbury side that came to Town on the back of two victories of their own. Fired up from the first whistle they had the first opportunity taking advantage of a misdirected header but not for the first time this season Phillips was equal to the task and as Town finally managed to string passes together they opened the scoring on twenty five minutes. Bath expertly held the ball up, found Isaac McCue whose first time flick fell into the path of Callum Shipton who strode forward before chipping the goalkeeper.

The second half followed a similar pattern with the visitors fully committed to every challenge, prepared to push forward at every opportunity but lacking the quality to break down Town’s well-drilled and equally committed defence.

The second goal Town needed came on seventy six minutes. An in-swinging corner from Josh Cann saw Bath lose his marker to deftly head home for his fifth goal in the last three games. Shipton and Nelson Iscguan both had chances to seal victory but narrowly missed the target but Town ran out winners to consolidate their second place in the league table.

Malvern are currently on a seven match unbeaten run and are home to Melksham in midweek. They have won on the road at Helston and Evesham and have been in some high-scoring games including a 5-4 victory over Bristol Manor Farm. Last season the Worcestershire side did the double over Town.

Town should have Knowles back who missed the Shaftesbury game due to suspension and will be hoping that Aarron Denny will also feature having missed the last four games through injury. Town’s St Lukes Bowl tie against Plymouth Argyle has been put back a week at their request and is now scheduled for Wednesday November 13.