The Yachtsmen flattered to deceive again at Westwood on Saturday, as Winchester City stormed back from a two goal deficit, to hand Cowes their seventh home League defeat of the season.
Cowes made the perfect start after two minutes, when Tom Dye’s cross eluded everyone, except Lee Davies, whose shot went in off of the keeper.
On twenty minutes Craig Thomas doubled the home side’s lead, swivelling on the penalty spot before lashing a left-footer into the far corner.
So far this season, a two-goal cushion has not guaranteed success for the Cowes youngsters and so it proved again as almost immediately the visitors hit back through Zac Glasspool and five minutes later they were level, Ian Davies surging through to beat Chris Norris.
Incredibly, Winchester took the lead after thirty-five minutes, Sol Asajile, one of two new signings from Spurs, guiding his shot wide of Norris, but just inside the far post.
Cowes worked hard to retrieve the situation by half-time and Max Draper went closest, his effort being deflected inches wide.
With Guy Butters, the ex Spurs and Pompey centre-back, mopping everything up at the back, the visitors continued to dominate and Cowes had Chris Norris to thank for saving them after a defensive mix-up a then Glasspool’s free-kick came back off of the crossbar, so their fourth goal, on fifty-six minutes came as no surprise, Nathan Lynch’s shot squirming in under Norris’s dive.
When Gareth Bricknell headed in Mark Augustus’s injury-time cross to reduce the arrears, it served only to make the score-line a little more respectable and this latest defeat leaves the Yachtsmen three points adrift at the foot of the table, with the prospect of the visit of League leaders, Bournemouth to Westwood on Saturday afternoon.
Match report: Pete Jeffrey
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