Wellington Reserves 3 Tenbury United 1

The Premier Division leaders lost 3-1 at second-placed Wellington Reserves, who are now five points behind United with three games in hand.

United co-boss Nick Stocker said:?“I can’t really grumble. Wellington were excellent going forward and made us pay for being wasteful in front of goal in the first half. We’ve still got a lot to learn against the top teams in this league but if I’m honest, on another day we could have been out of sight by half-time.”

United were behind within two minutes, but they were soon level, with some good link-up play between Dale Withers and Mike Foster giving Chris Patton a chance to equalise. He cut in from the right and drove an unstoppable shot in off a post.

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For the rest of the half Tenbury were on top and should have gone in at half-time ahead. But they scorned a handful of decent openings and Wellington came out like a different team in the second half, scoring twice in ten minutes to take command.

United have the chance to quickly make amends when they entertain Wellington in the HFA Charity Bowl this weekend.