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Hawks secure vital win
Harlow Town 2
Boreham Wood 1
(Ryman Premier)
HARLOW TOWN secured a vital victory over Boreham Wood to ease the pressure in their bid for Ryman Premier survival, writes Nick Hodgskin.
Player-manager Ryan Kirby made five changes from Saturdays defeat to Maidstone, bringing in James Hassell, Danny Chapman, Leon Lalite, Danny Green and a first start for Rhys Henry.
After a scrappy start, Harlow began to dominate proceedings with the first chance of the game falling to Mark Taylor after 12 minutes with his left-footed strike being well saved by Shane Herbert.
The combination of Mark Taylor and Kenny Davis down the right caused the visitors trouble all night, and quick passing between the two allowed Taylor to strike across goal on 20 minutes but his shot went just wide.
Harlow should have taken the lead mid-way through the first half after a mistake by Ollie Adedeji released Henry down the left. His cross picked out Davis free at the back post, with his shot powering past Herbert only to be cleared off the line by Chris Watters.
Boreham Wood gradually came back into the game and created a real opening on 31 minutes. Neat passing between former Hawks fans favourite Marvin Samuel and Chris Bangura released Leon Archer through on goal.
Archer rounded keeper Hassell but took to long to shoot, which allowed Beckett Hollenbach to superbly block his powerful effort on the line.
Six minutes later Archer had another chance but failed to connect fully with Steve Wales dragging the ball wide.
It was third time lucky a minute later though for Archer after a defensive mistake allowed him through one-on-one. He rounded Hassel again and this time placed the ball into the empty net to give the visitors an unlikely half-time lead.
The home-side dominated proceedings in the second half but could of found themselves 2-0 down three minutes after the re-start when Bangura was found in the box by Wales. His shot flew past Hassell but was blocked on the line by Mark Taylor.
Harlow began to pile on the pressure and were rewarded on 54 minutes when Taylor's cross found Bunn in the middle, who laid it off to Henry. His shot was blocked and the ball fell youngster Green, whose shoot flew past Herbert via a deflection off Samuel.
Herbert kept the scores level on the hour with an excellent save onto the post from Davis after Taylor's free kick.
Herbert could do nothing about Taylor's next free kick three minutes later when the right-back curled the ball round the wall into the top right-hand corner, from just right of the penalty area.
Henry should have been awarded a penalty after being fouled by Adedeji ten minutes from time.
The decision could have been costly had substitute Paul Armstrong not wasted a golden opportunity with two minutes remaining. A long ball forward by Adedeji was poorly cleared by Hollenbach and the ball fell straight to the veteran striker, who somehow put wide from 12 yards just right of the area.
Next up for Harlow is another big relegation battle with Folkestone on Good Friday.
9:33am Thursday 20th March 2008
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