Evesham United 1-0 Hanwell Town

Having played so poorly in their previous league fixture, a 2-0 defeat at home against Dorchester Town, our hopes in our first ever fixture against Evesham United were that we would journey home with the three points in our possession or at the very least a point from a drawn game.

Alas it was not to be as on a cold windy day against a home side figuring higher up in the league table we produced before a crowd of 351 rather an insipid performance and were beaten 1-0. Our side showed just two changes from that beaten by Dorchester.

Returning from suspension, Roberto Nditi replaced Joe Wilson who found himself out of the squad and Dwayne Duncan replaced Elijah Oladunjoy who dropped to the bench.

It was a very scrappy opening twenty minutes with neither side looking like scoring.

Shortly after we had a big shout for a penalty kick after a scrappy period in Evesham's penalty area.

Evesham did find our net in the 28th minute when a header from loan Richards saw the ball loop over Sam Beasant into our net but the offside whistle had already been blown. A fierce free kick by Dan Carr was blocked on the Evesham goal line and then the Evesham keeper Alex Harris also the captain made a good save from a fierce Kamaron English pile driver. Shortly after from a good move down the right, the ball reached Evesham's Levi Steele but his shot from an angle saw the ball hit the side netting.

In the thirty seventh minute, Harris limped off to be replaced between the sticks by Brendan Beard.

The best chance of the half then found Steele racing clear from what seemed an obvious offside position but his lob as Sam narrowed the angle saw the ball drift just over the crossbar.

Evesham made a positive start introducing two substitutes early in the second half and it was one of those Ethan Dunbar who scored what proved to be the winning goal within a few minutes of his arrival on the pitch. Town's shouts for offside were ignored as he netted from close range. Minutes after he had scored Dunbar could have made it two, bursting clear but with only Sam to beat pulled his shot wide of the far post. There was very little to enthuse about in the remainder of the game, both sides making multiple substitutions with Evesham seemingly content to defend in depth to secure their lead.

The closest Town came to equalising was when a free kick by Taylor Miles was diverted off the Evesham defensive wall just past the post with keeper Beard stranded. In extra time, a miss placed back pass by Gianni Crichlow sold keeper Sam short but Dubar who might have had a hat trick steered the ball wide of the post.

72) 79. Levi Steele (17 Ethan Dunbar 60) 11. Brandon Liggett 12. Andre Wright 14. Will Owens (3 Rhys Bennett 53) 5. Ethan Patterson) 18. James Smith 16 Lewis Middleton 90) 19. Cameron Waters.

HANWELL TOWN 1. Sam Beasant © 2. Roberto Nditi (15 Ethan Lindo 90) 3. Dan Carr 4. Calum Woodcock (14 Taylor Miles ) 5. Harry Seabrook 6. Dwayne Duncan 7. Gianni Crichlow 8. Harry Hoath

9. Jordy Mongoy (16 Alfie Pendlebury ) 10.Bradley Clayton ( 17 Harry Rice) 11. Kameron English ( 12

Elijah Oladunjoye)