News & EventsLatest NewsCalendar
Thame United   3    Dunstable Town   1

Thame United 3 Dunstable Town 1

Jake Collinge7 Dec 2018 - 22:26
Share via
FacebookTwitter
https://www.thamefootball.co.u

Goals from Liam Tack, David Lynn and Tom Ashworth were enough for United to secure three points against AFC Dunstable on Tuesday evening.

United started with the same side that had beaten Bedford Town three days earlier but, apart from a Lynton Goss shot from distance that was pushed away for a corner on five minutes, it was the visitors who opened the brighter. Indeed, after the polished performance against Bedford, a few errors crept in to the United game and, as a result, a number of half chances came the way of AFC Dunstable, the best of these falling to B.J Christie who twice was unable to trouble Craig Hill in the Thame goal.

Eventually United began to find their footing and, on 19 minutes took the lead. Good work down the left resulted in a shot from Goss that appeared to be goal bound before Tack got a touch and neatly clipped the ball home despite a desperate attempt to clear off the line. The goal settled United and only a minute later Dan West fired over from twenty yards. Shortly afterwards United won a free kick on the right hand side of the penalty area and, in a carbon copy of the free kick he scored against Bedford, David Lynn stepped up to curl the ball over the visiting keeper and in to the top corner of the net. At 2-0 the game settled down, with United generally in control and they nearly extended the lead five minutes before the break when a Tack cross was met by captain Ben Sturgess, but the effort was wide of the mark.

The second half started in similar vein, and only nine minutes after the re-start, United extended their lead. Again good work from Goss on the left resulted in the ball being played in to the path of Ashworth who placed the ball low and wide of the keeper. The remainder of the half saw United generally in control, with the nearest to a fourth goal coming on 85 minutes when Tack found himself in space in the penalty area, only for his curling effort to go wide of the mark. However, in the final minute of stoppage time the visitors scored a consolation goal when a low cross from the left was forced home at close range by Tony Burnett.

The win consolidates United’s position in the play offs, with a trip on Saturday to face Dunstable Town.

United:

Hill, Mepham, Lynn, Carter, Gledhill (Murray), Ashworth, Tack (Evans), L Goss, Sturgess, West, Scott (Martin)

Further reading