The clash of two cities goes to Cambridge!

A goal in the 12th minute settled this encounter which we did more than enough to win. As confirmed by manager Steve Massey : “I thought we played well against a top six side. We totally dominated the second half, in fact we did in the first half really. We gave them a couple of chances, but we must have had at least a half dozen efforts at goal and then they have their first one and it’s a scruffy, scrappy affair, but that’s the way it just seems to be going at the moment.”

In fact there was just 80 seconds on the clock when the crowd were out of their seats applauding Les Afful going close when he headed over a Liam Eddy cross from the right.

Truro continued to force the game on and with Olly Brokenshire having a header saved when he got on the end of a Steve Tully cross, Cody Cooke (pictured) seeing his shot punched away by the visitors ‘keeper Enol Ordonez, skipper Paul Kendall heading wide and Afful again going close when he shot into the side netting, it was more than a promising opening ten minutes.

However, on a blustery afternoon at Treyew, Cambridge took the wind out of the White Tigers sails in the 12th minute when Josh Dawkin touched down a Ben Farrell ball into the edge of the penalty area, turned and his resultant shot found the back of the Truro net.

If there might have been a question mark over Ollie Chenoweth's goalkeeping for the goal, he more than made up for it just after the half hour when he stood tall and prevented The Lilywhites top scorer Adam Marriott from chipping over him.

With only two league defeats all season, Cambridge maintained that record, even though for large periods of the second 45 minutes, they were constricted to their own half by a Truro side, who although controlling the contest, still couldn’t break through the back line and beat the visitors’ Spanish goalkeeper.

Eddy looked lively and kept Cambridge’s skipper Lee Chaffey busy; Afful stepped over a Brokenshire effort only to see the ball eventually cleared when for a moment it looked goalbound and soon after that scare for Cambridge, Cooke probably should have done better when he got a second chance with the ball rebounding to him, but the midfielder shot over.

Massey threw all his cards onto the table when into the last quarter of the match he pushed Pugh upfront and it nearly backfired when Marriott won a corner which ended with Chenoweth pushing away a Will Lawton effort.

With three minutes remaining Eddy fired in a cracking half-volley, but unfortunately it was straight at Ordonez who still had to do well to prevent it going in, and when Paul Kendall headed wide two minutes into added on time, we all knew that once again this season it wasn’t going to be Truro’s day.

Nevertheless manager Massey is adamant that our fortunes will change : “We are going to paste someone soon.”

Roll on AFC Totton on Tuesday!

Truro City: Chenoweth, Tully, White (Sims 85), Kendall (capt), Pugh, Broad, Cooke (Slateford 78), J Lowry, Eddy, Brokenshire (D Evans 78), Afful. Subs not used: Copp, Watson.

Cambridge City: Ordonez, Ramm, Brighton, Lawton, Chaffey (capt), Farrell, Lewis, Beech, Marriott, Beasant, Dawkin (Allen 64). Subs not used: Prada, Pepper, Midgley.

Yellow card: Lewis

Crowd: 350