After the 1-0 win against Walton Casuals we now must travel to Kent to play against
Faversham are currently the number 19th in the table with 38 points out of 37 games.
They scored 45 and conceded 60 goals.
Remember our home game win: https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/match/isthmian-football-league-south-division/hastings-united/faversham-town/12665 And this was the match report:
Hastings United Football Club achieved its third consecutive win and clean sheet with another hard-earned victory this afternoon (Saturday).
A very well taken first half goal from Sam Adams and another resolute defensive display clinched a 1-0 success at home to Faversham Town in Bostik Football League Division One South.
Hastings manager Chris Agutter made one change to his starting line-up from the FA Trophy victory over Romford the previous Sunday. The fit-again Tom Vickers returned in a central midfield role, with Jack Dixon switching to right-back and John Akoto dropping to the bench.
Faversham had a glorious chance - and what turned out to be their best opening all game - inside the first 70 seconds. Luke Griffiths burst clean through on goal, but home goalkeeper Charlie Horlock pulled off a splendid save and got up quickly to punch the ball to safety.
The visitors went on to dominate possession during the opening 25 minutes, with Hastings frequently clearing their lines only for Faversham to come straight back at them.
Faversham’s only other attempt of note during that time, however, came when Liam King worked space for a shot from the edge of the D which went straight into the arms of Horlock.
Hastings started to see a bit more of the ball during the final 20 minutes of the first half and out of nowhere Sam Cruttwell struck a terrific volley from the right-hand side of the area which was parried by Faversham goalkeeper Simon Overland low to his right.
Hastings grabbed the all-important goal in the 33rd minute. Kenny Pogue held the ball up on the left and laid it inside to Adams, who won the initial tackle with a Faversham opponent and then skipped past the next man before driving low past Overland with his left foot.
In pleasantly warm mid-October sunshine at The Pilot Field, Hastings began the second period on the front foot with young Ollie Black launching some more of his prodigious long throws into the Faversham box.
Faversham gradually began to dominate possession again, but created precious little as Hastings got bodies behind the ball, made themselves difficult to play through and on the whole didn’t look like conceding.
The visitors’ one real chance of the second period came in the 89th minute. Ernest Okoh turned Dixon on the away left and made his way into the area, but shot wide of the near post.
Ryan Cheek sent an overhead kick wide of the far post from a corner during five minutes of added time as Hastings stood firm to take all three points in their first Saturday home fixture since the opening day of the season.
Hastings’ best moment of the second half was in the 83rd minute when Pogue was whiskers away from getting on the end of Davide Rodari’s cross after great work in the build-up by Adams.
Another piece of good news for Hastings, who have moved up three places to 14th in the table, was influential midfielder Simon Johnson playing the final half-an-hour after six weeks out through injury.
Game played on a bumpy pitch was not condusive to our passing game ,a lot of which were intercepted, leading to a scrappy first half. Thought we played better in second half and deserved the three points. Rodari turning into a top striker but needs help up front. My man of the match was Crutts playing right back in place of Ollie who has the flu and then switching to left back when Beale went off....a real utility performance.
A mention for Simon Overland ,their keeper ,who had good banter with our supporters behind the goal.
Excellent support today , over 50 travelled.
Definitely deserved the 3 points against a very poor Faversham side. As Phil says pitch was awful and I question why we kept trying to play the ball out of defence, as it was clear that an extra touch was required, making it easy to close us down. But fair play all the decent football came from us, and Davide once he gets to understand the offside law will be an even more effective player than he is already. Just hope we can end up with about 75 points as it will give us hope for next season.
Good result on a poor pitch against a mediocre side. First half not much to write home about but deservedly 1-1 ar half time. Second half much better and we played better football and got the win it deserved. I have to mention the lino on the stand side. He annoyed both sets of supporters with his constant flagging for offside, I bet his arm aches tonight. I don’t know about Davide I reckon the lino needs a refresher on the offside rule.
-- Edited by FatherXmas on Saturday 24th of March 2018 08:43:40 PM
Nice to see Sonny back apparantly after a nasty accident caused an injury ... he has something about him , a bit of a niggle if that makes sense in a positive way
Like wise with Jordon ... very positive on the pitch
Harry Stannard looks lost in a team and situation where not getting games for Margate and Faversham ... shame he did the move with the rest of the defectors last year
Harry Stannard often looked lost playing for us, he was nowhere near as good as some people thought, yes there were moments of brilliance, but an awful lot of moments of rubbish.
