Tonbridge Angels (0) 1 Korboa 90+2
Worthing (0) 0
Attendance: 1,137
Admission: Season Ticket
Mileage: 38/3,746
Another remarkable result in season of remarkable results that only leaves me scratching my head as to why Tonbridge Angels have spent any time looking over our shoulders.
Worthing arrived at the Yeomans with continued praise ringing in their ears following their 4-0 demolition of the Angels in the FA Trophy in November but departed having been made to look bang average.
It is a shame that those of us with non-league in our hearts are subjected to reading almost every week of another club issuing an apology for supporter behaviour and because of previous discretions from youths that have attached themselves to Worthing, this match was segregated. In all my time, there has never been a problem with Worthing, so it must be difficult for genuine supporters of the Sussex club to stomach the reputation they now carry.
Manager Alan Dunne made three changes to the starting XI at Hemel Hempstead with Scott Wagstaff, Marcus Sablier and Bunmi Babajide returning.
Another change was needed as Kyle Smith went down with a recurrence of an injury within the first five minutes and needed substituting by Nazir Bakrin.
Worthing had none of the fluency of November, or even in defeat at Woodside Road in September under the guidance of Craig Nelson. In the first half they were restricted to one chance, two minutes before the break, when a shot from Joel Colbran was parried by Matt Rowley to the head of Shiloh Remy but his tame header was easily collected by the Tonbridge goalkeeper.
Tonbridge had started the game brightly with Smith seeing his free kick saved by Taylor Seymour; Frankie Baker firing over and Sablier also having a shot comfortably saved by Seymour.
Early in the second period, came the Angels most heart stopping moment of the game when a free kick saw a missed overhead attempt from Coleman De Graft confusing the Angels defence with the ball falling at the feet of Remiero Moulton at the far post but the alert Rowley was quickly plunging at his feet to smother the shot before it was hacked to safety.
On 58 minutes, substitute Callum Morton should have done better than steer a header wide, but from that moment Tonbridge contained the visitors with ease and, on the break, were offering dangerous moments of their own.
As the clock ticked into added time, Tonbridge supporters were probably happy with a hard earned point when Bradley Williams, who had made a huge impact on the game from the bench on 56 minutes, fed the ball to the left to Ricky Korboa, who cut in, found enough space to pick his spot into the final corner to send Angels supporters into raptures.
Eight agonising minutes, that turned into 11, had supporters baying for the final whistle, but as it had been for the most part of the afternoon, the visitors final push was tepid at best and seen off comfortably.
Twelve points clear, 13 in reality with a vastly superior goal difference, surely safety is as good as assured. Football Web Pages think so, but at one point this afternoon they had Larkfield winning their SCEFL match 22-3 when they actually lost 4-2! So let’s get to 50 points before cracking out the bubbly!
Pictures: David Couldridge and Wes Fitness
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