Solihull Moors pounced on defensive mishaps to ruthlessly put to the sword previously unbeaten Boreham Wood and bag a third National League win on the bounce.
“That was a proper away day today”, purred Boreham Wood boss Luke Garrard after Tyrone Marsh’s stoppage-time winner took his Boreham Wood, albeit momentarily, to the top of the National League.
Torquay United finally got their season up and running with victory at Maidenhead – but they were made to sweat every inch of the way with the Magpies rallying back from three goals down to set uip a thrilling finish.
IN A tight, hard-fought encounter at Meadow Park, it was Boreham Wood who came out on top courtesy of a 65th minute winner from centre-back Jamal Fyfield which gave Luke Garrard’s men their second victory in a row, while the visitors Aldershot Town suffered a second defeat.
Wood and another National League club triggered the Gambian-born Spanish defender’s release clause, but the 24-year-old ex-Carshalton man opted to pen a three-year deal with the Hertfordshire club.
The 23-year-old had been thrown on by Magpies boss Alan Devonshire with just a few minutes to go and coolly tucked the ball home at the far post from star man Danilo Orsi’s low cross in the dying seconds.
EASTLEIGH keep a play-off destiny in their own hands with a last-gasp penalty winner – although manager Ben Strevens claims the crucial result was ‘harsh’ on Boreham Wood.
Wrexham turned a two-goal half-time deficit into victory with two late goals including a Reece Hall-Johnson’s winner on 89 minutes to lift the Dragons into the play-off places.
The defeat sees the Shaymen – who saw Danny Williams sent off in the second half – stay in fifth place in the National League table but the gap has tightened up below with Wrexham, Notts County and Chesterfield all winning.
Long-standing chief Hunter has had to guide the club through the Covid pandemic and with the release of their season ticket prices, a forthright assessment of their future.
First-half goals from defender Ash Palmer and John Rooney put the Hatters in complete control before Alex Reid celebrated signing a new two-year contract at Edgeley Park with a match-clinching third.
Tshimanga struck twice in the final six minutes to clinch victory after Wealdstone’s Jacob Mendy had cancelled out Jamal Fyfield’s opener in a thrilling final quarter.
Luke Garrard’s draw specialists defended like trojans to force a rare shut-out on the leaders, but couldn’t make it count the other end as Sutton extended their unbeaten run to 13 league matches.