The visitors came in to the game having lost only one of their previous ten league fixtures and occupied fifth place in the table. That, combined with the fact that the visitors were playing with the wind in the first half, made the two goal lead to United after 15 minutes all the more impressive.

After an even opening, it was United who opened the scoring after only 7 minutes, and it has to go down as one of the most spectacular goals ever witnessed at the ASM Stadium. After good build-up play, the ball was crossed in to the box from the right. Caught by the wind the ball was moving away from goal, and away from the attacking players, but Dan West, with the ball behind him, left the ground and with a scissor-kick, and in a broadly horizontal position, hooked the ball over his shoulder and in to the top corner of the goal, leaving Kurtis Sharkey, the Highworth keeper more than a little bemused.

And it was 2-0 only five minutes later when Luke Ricketts found himself through on goal and, with Sharkey racing out to meet him, arced the ball beyond the keeper and in to the top of the net. With the visitors chasing the game and the conditions still heavily in their favour, United spent the majority of the remainder of the half defending. However, the visitors got back in to the game on 31 minutes when a Steve Clarke goal kick caught the wind and landed just outside the box where T.J Bohane was on-hand to square to the unmarked Callum Parsons who finished from close range. The visitors then found the equaliser just before the break when good inter-play saw a cross from the left that Levi Cox slide in to the back of the net.

United had the benefit of playing with the wind in the second half, and whilst opportunities for both sides were limited, the winning goal arrived on 70 minutes. Nick Dugmore made a good run down the left before crossing in to the box. Jamie Connor just failed to connect with his head and went down prone on the six yard box, before the ball was returned in to the area from the right. Tom Ashworth tried a back flick that only hit the prone Connor, before rebounding to the impressive Ken Feyi who, on only his second start for United, powered a drive in to the bottom corner.

The remainder of the game passed without significant incident, with the win lifting United to seventh in the table

United:
Clarke, Evans, Dugmore, Hercules, Bailey, Ashworth, Connelly (Hayes), Connor (Kedzierski), Feyi, West, Ricketts