fa cup success for witham

the fa cup draw was not kind for town this season as they faced a tricky away trip to much fancied canvey island fc ,and it was the under dogs witham town that on the day more than matched canvey and and were rewarded with a hard fought 2.0 win and enter the hat for mondays draw.
having done there homework on the "gulls" town were surprised when the home side played right into Witham’s hands for the majority of the match, launching long ball forwards against their much physically taller opposition and failing to make goalkeeper Lewis Moore make a save all afternoon.town started well and in the 16th minute striker Timothy Monsheju met a right wing cross with a flick on header at the near post which Henry Newcombe was alert to and managed to save for towns first chance.town took the game to canvey and in the 21st minute dumas picked up a yellow card for pulling back an opponent ,Elliot Ronto delivered an excellent ball into the box and GOALLLLLLLLLLLLL
TYLER CORLETT rose to head home for his first goal for the club and towns first of the afternoon.has the half went on both teams had half chances
but the scoreline remained
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withams defence and in fact the whole team defended so well today and as canvey pushed to level the score town stood firm this did not look like a team that had lost its first two league games ,in the 69th minute time stood still as walker for canvey unmarked missed an open goal .

Witham sealed their victory in the second minute of injury time when Sam Ashford took advantage of a lapse in concentration from the Canvey defence and collected a ball into the box which he slotted past Henry Newcombe.