By Lucas Monk

Jordan Wilson and Sam Moore scored to secure all three points for Dynamo, who remain fifth in the Midland Football League table after this result.

Shepshed, though eventually victorious, got off to a slovenly start.

Craig Jones saw a shot deflected wide as Westfields threatened in the early stages.

The hosts responded moments later with Pearson Mwanyongo cutting the ball back from the right, but Sean Phillips could only lash a wild effort over the bar.

Despite that foray forward, it would be the visitors who dominated large swathes of the first half.

Dynamo ‘keeper Brandon Ganley had to be alert to parry a low shot wide after good play from John Mills and Aidan Thomas.

Thomas then dragged an effort wide from inside the box before setting up Carlos Moreira, who likewise fired his shot off target.

Westfields continued to pass the ball and probe the space well, and they were the personification of equanimity as they controlled proceedings.

They fashioned the best of their chances on the stroke of half-time. Thomas delivered a laser-guided cross into the box, but Keanu Cooper headed just over the bar.

Shepshed will doubtless have been thankful to go into the interval on terms with their counterparts from Herefordshire, having been slipshod in the first half, but they did improve in the second.

Westfields’s seemingly steady flow of chances dried up, and the hosts began to produce some of their own waves of attack.

Matt Melbourne headed the ball wide from Liam Hurst’s cross before Mwanyongo let fly from distance and sent a shot whistling over the bar.

Jake Betts then produced a crucial intervention at the last to halt a dangerous run from Thomas, before Wilson fired straight at away ‘keeper Keiron Blackburn after Melbourne flicked the ball on.

Shepshed, following the introduction of Moore in place of Mwanyongo, then took the lead in the 74th minute.

Wilson, on the edge of the box, exchanged passes with Moore before driving a low shot in at the near post.

They then made the points safe just three minutes thereafter - Moore’s inswinging cross evaded everybody and crept in at the far post.

Westfields rallied and threw the kitchen sink at Dynamo, but their attacks were repelled as though the home goal were ensconced in an impenetrable force field.

The visitors thought they had clawed a goal back when the ball fell kindly in the box for Jones, but his goalbound effort was cleared at the last by Josh Thomas.

Shepshed, obdurate and determined and phlegmatic, held firm for the three points.

They performed poorly for much of the match, especially in the first half, but they improved vastly in the second half and ground out a good win over tough opposition.

Damion Beckford-Quailey’s side will now be in high spirits ahead of next week’s visit to Worcester City at Bromsgrove’s Victoria Ground.