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Maidstone United 1-0 Torquay United: Alabi sees Stones go seven up on Gulls

TORQUAY United must dread playing Maidstone United. This was the seventh successive occasion that the Stones had beaten the Gulls with the winner this time coming just three minutes from the end, thanks to substitute James Alabi.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
28 August 2022

By Ruth Pettifer

MAIDSTONE U 1
Alabi 87

TORQUAY UTD 0
TORQUAY United must dread playing Maidstone United. This was the seventh successive occasion that the Stones had beaten the Gulls with the winner this time coming just three minutes from the end, thanks to substitute James Alabi.
This was a classic game of two halves and had the visitors taken advantage of the chances they created in the first half, this match may have had a different outcome.
But Gary Johnson’s Gulls have only scored one goal this season and Maidstone improved considerably after the break, and in the end their pressu...

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