BADSHOT LEA 0
GUERNSEY 2 (Allen 4’; Fallaize 33’)
Guernsey earned a first win in nine games to shrink the gap to safety and keep their survival hopes alive.
They also ended a 12-year hoodoo with a first win over Badshot Lea in six attempts – the fact we first played them late in 2012 means that Camberley Town are the only team with a longer life on GFC’s lists of teams never beaten.
First-half set-piece goals from Ross Allen, who scored for the fourth game in a row, and Jacob Fallaize, who now has double figures for the club, were enough to see off the already-relegated Badshot Lea, and they managed the game well in the second half to ensure they left with the three points.
The Sarnians got off to the perfect start as Allen darted away from his man in the box to collect a low Charlton Gauvain free-kick, tee himself up and thump the ball past Harry Cawdron at the near post.
Fallaize made it two just after the half-hour mark when he turned in another Gauvain set-piece, this time to the far post.
Allen could have put his side out of sight just before the break but poked just wide after being found by Gauvain again.
Matt Loaring fired just over from the edge of the box early in the second half and also mis-controlled in a promising position to allow Cawdron to make a save as Guernsey sought to make the game a little more comfortable. But overall they weren’t duly troubled and a fourth clean sheet of the campaign was nearly as welcome as the three points.
Unfortunately South Park have kept their distance with a third win in a row, while a draw for Ashford Town at Ascot United keeps their noses in front of the Green Lions, but a defeat for Metropolitan Police has brought the deficit to survival down to four points. Horndean are also now at risk of getting dragged into the mix.
This is just the start for the Green Lions if they are going to pull off the great escape, but they have given themselves a chance.
Saturday’s other Isthmian South Central results were as follows: Ascot United 0-0 Ashford Town, Binfield 0-1 Moneyfields, Hartley Wintney 1-3 Hanworth Villa, Hayes & Yeading United 2-1 Farnham Town, Kingstonian 1-4 Rayners Lane, South Park (Reigate) 3-0 Harrow Borough, Southall 2-1 Raynes Park Vale, Sutton Common Rovers 1-0 Horndean, Uxbridge 10 (ten)-0 Leatherhead, Westfield 3-1 Metropolitan Police.
BADSHOT LEA: 13 Harry CAWDRON; 2 David GARLINGE; 3 Luke JARVIE; 4 Zak JOSE; 5 Callum WILTSHIRE; 6 Aitor ANDON (14 Kai ALLSOPP, 60’); 7 Josef PHILIPSON; 8 Luis LE PAIH (c); 9 Steve SYLLA; 10 Charlie GEORGE (15 James BEAUCHAMP, 65’); 11 Jaheim KAMARA (12 Samuel YABANI, 72’).
GUERNSEY: 1 Josh ADDISON; 5 Tom VAUDIN; 7 Charlton GAUVAIN; 8 Matt LOARING; 9 Sam MURRAY (18 Dave MERRIS, 81’); 10 Ross ALLEN (c) (14 Simon ARNOLD, 90+2’); 12 Fin DU PORT (20 Alex WARD, 90+2’); 17 Brandon WALLACE (4 Tom DODDS, 58’); 21 Jacques CAUVIN (15 Seb VANCE, 58’); 24 Jacob FALLAIZE; 28 Ben SOLWAY.
Attendance: 286.
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