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Yeovil Town goal scorer, Sonny Blu Lo Everton says the Glovers got what they deserved out of their 3-1 win over Farnborough on Saturday.

Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Ian Randall after the game, he said that whilst their hosts made it tough for them, three points was exactly what the side had earned.

“It was tough, it’s always nice to get on the score sheet, but we made it hard for ourselves – it should be game over, and they get one from a scabby long through and you go back against the walls again, but we get the third and then, we got what we deserved.

It’s such a cliche to say that 2-0 is the hardest score line or the worst score line in football, but, when we get that second goal, early-ish in the second half it should be game over.

it’s a frustrating one for us, because we shouldn’t be putting ourselves in that position, but when we get the third, it’s game over.”

“…when we get the third, it’s game over.”

Farnborough did have their chances and a Rory Delay-esque long throw in their armoury, but despite late pressure, the defence once again stood firm to see the game out and keep the Glovers 11 points clear at the top.

“When you do go 1-0 up or 2-0 and the time begins to go down, they gamble players forward which means, they follow them, which means we go deeper, we’re further away from their goal, they’re closer to our goal, that’s just how it works… when they start gambling players forward, it’s going to be tough, but we defended really well. 

You could hear them on the sidelines, it was five minutes to go in the first half and they just said ‘stay in, keep it 1-0 before we go in’.”

Yeovil’s second goal came from Alex Fisher, his first of the season and first since a terrible double leg break against Southend last season, prompting emotional scenes from everyone associated with the Glovers.

“It’s so good to see Fish on the score sheet, he’s worked really hard to this position that he’s at, he’s been really patient to wait for his opportunity and today he took it.”

Looking ahead to Monday (and beyond) the former Watford and Derby man, is keeping it simple, one day at time, one game at a time, one win at a time… starting, hopefully, on Monday at Aveley.

“It is [tough], as is every game in this league, we just get one less day’s recovery, but we’ve got the people around us and we’re all switched on enough to know how to recover for the next game.

We’re taking it game by game, if we win, we get the points, it’s in our hands, we can’t rely on anyone else to drop points, it’s solely on us, we don’t think about anyone else, we don’t look at anyone else’s scores, if we win the game, we win the game.”

 

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Striker Alex Fisher scored his first goal since coming back from a horrific double leg break to lead Yeovil Town to a 3-1 win at Farnborough.

Having taken a 1-0 lead through a well taken goal from Sonny Blu Lo-Everton, Fisher was in the right place to turn home a second on the hour mark.

Olly Pendlebury pulled a goal back for the home side soon after before Alex Whittle wrapped up the points with his first goal for the club.

The three points meant the Glovers maintained their 11-point lead over second-placed Chelmsford who picked up a 2-0 home win over Aveley, who host Yeovil on Monday night. That game saw Aveley play the entire second half with nine men and Chelmsford finish with ten.

First half

The opening exchanges were dominated by the home side but the nearest they came to finding a breakthrough was a long-range effort by full-back Jordan Norville-Williams which comfortably went wide of Joe Day’s post.

As Yeovil began to find their rhythm, they started probing of the opposition defence with increasing effect and on 13 minutes the breakthrough came. Sam Pearson threaded a ball through to Sonny Blu LO EVERTON who coolly gave the visitors the lead.

On 20 minutes, the scorer almost became the provider for the Glovers’ second. A beautiful move down the left saw him pick out Matt Worthington in the middle but his effort was well blocked  by keeper Jack Turner.

Two minutes after the inevitable booking for Farnborough midfielder Aaron Kuhn, a burst in to the box by Frank Nouble, cutting in from the right side saw him brought down inside the area. No real appeals from the Yeovil players.

But the threat to Day’s goal was virtually zero. A cross flashed across the face of goal by Salim Saied before Reggie Lambe and then Olly Pendlebury flashed efforts over the bar.

Half time: Farnborough 0 Yeovil Town 1

Second half

It took quarter of an hour of the second half before the patient build up fashioned an opportunity for Yeovil. It was one brought about by good pressure from Nouble, who held up Edon Pruti enough to allow Pearson to nick the ball, break in to the box and get a shot away but his effort rose over the bar.

Then, on the hour mark, Yeovil doubled their advantage. It was Pearson who created the opening inside the box, playing it in to the six yard box where Alex FISHER was on hand to turn it home. A special moment for the striker, his first goal since returning from a horrific double leg break last April.

Alex Fisher celebrates his goal.

But two minutes later, Farnborough pulled a goal back through Olly PENDLEBURY for what appeared to be a hit through a crowd of players. From the other end of the pitch it was difficult to give it much more analysis than that, to be honest.

On 66 minutes, Fisher came within inches of doubling his tally but his header from Pearson’s right wing cross was superbly tipped over by Turner in the hosts’ goal.

Farnborough were buoyed by their goal and that save and Hisham Kasimu had an effort turned wide by a smart stop from Day.

Day was back in action with ten minutes to go. This time a nice move from the hosts broke to goalscorer Pendlebury who fired in a venomous strike which the keeper turned wide, perhaps with the assistance of his goal frame.

Jay Foulston replaced Fisher with nine minutes remaining and the back five with Alex Whittle and Michael Smith at wing backs, and four minutes later Whittle made it 3-1.

Stevens broke away down the right and cut it back in to the box to WHITTLE had to have two goes at before it got past Turner. 

Dawes immediately replaced Pearson after the goal and whilst there was a bit of Farnborough in the dying embers of the game, a shot wide by Pendlebury was as close as they came.

Full time: Farnborough 1 Yeovil Town 3

Match Details

Venue: Cherrywood Road
Date: Saturday 2nd March – 3pm

Competition: National League South

Pitch: Amazingly playable albeit boggy in the goalmouths
Conditions: Glorious sunshine for the first time this month.

Attendance: 1880

Scorers: Sonny Blu Lo-Everton 13 (1-0), Alex Fisher 60 (2-0), Olly Pendlebury 62 (2-1), Alex Whittle 85 (3-1).

Bookings:

Farnborough: Aaron Kuhl 30, Guy Hollis 77, Edon Pruti 90+3.
Yeovil Town: Charlie Cooper 64.

Referee: Harry Jones

Yeovil Town (4-2-3-1)

Substitutes: Jordan Stevens (for Sonny Blu Lo-Everton, 70), Jay Foulston (for Alex Fisher, 81), Will Dawes (for Sam Pearson, 88), Josh Owers (not used), Dylan Morgan (not used).

Farnborough: Jack Turner, Jack Ball, Jordan Norville-Williams, Guy Hollis, Edon Pruti, Reggie Young, Olly Pendlebury, Hisham Kasimu, Taylor Clark, Selim Saied, Aaron Kuhl.
Substitutes: Joe Haigh (for Selim Saied, 68), Harvey Bradbury (for Taylor Clark, 68), Miller Matthews-Lewis (for Hisham Kasimu, 78).

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Mark Cooper makes three changes for the Glovers’ clash with Farnborough, but one of them comes with a very clear set of instructions.

Alex Fisher makes just his second start of the season for Yeovil, since the 1-0 win over Bath in December, he’s been used exclusively in a substitute’s capacity, but he’s in from the off against Farnborough and has been told exactly what to do.

Speaking to Ian Randall pre-match, Mark Cooper said;

“We’ve made three changes, Alex Whittle is back in at Left Back instead of Jay Foulston, Charlie Cooper comes back into the midfield and Dylan Morgan drops to the bench and Alex Fisher is playing as a Number Nine today, he’s been given strict instructions to stay in the middle of the pitch and run towards the goal”

With a wry smile on his, rather basic, instructions, Cooper’s changes do suggest a slightly more direct approach with Fisher making an impact from the bench on each of the last two games.

In other news, Cooper confirmed that it would be ‘unlikely’ that Jake Hyde would feature again for the Glovers this season, whilst Rhys Murphy is ‘touch and go’ for another outing before the season concludes in late April.

Olly Thomas is hoping to be back at Huish Park in the near future, hopefully ahead of next Saturday’s home clash with Welling having had his return to Yeovil delayed by a few days by Bristol City

 

 

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Yeovil Town have made three changes for today’s trip to Farnborough in National League South.

Striker Alex Fisher, midfielder Charlie Cooper and full-back Alex Whittle all start having been on the bench for last weekend’s 1-0 defeat at Chelmsford City.

They replace Jay Foulston, Dylan Morgan and Jordan Stevens, who are all on the bench.

 

 

 

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The National League have announced the next set of North and South division games which will be made available to stream via NLTV.

Recently, the league announced that not all games would be, owing, in part to a lack of demand.

However, selected games would be, so long as they fall outside of the Saturday 3pm Black Out.

The Glovers home game with Chippenham on Tuesday 12th March is one such game.

So, if you are unable to make it to Huish Park for the game, or are exiled away at that point, you have a second option. Streaming passes will be available from HERE a little closer to the time and cost £9.50.

The Full List is available below

Tuesday 12 March
Banbury United v Boston United
Blyth Spartans v Darlington
Chester v Southport
Hereford v Alfreton Town
Spennymoor Town v Scunthorpe United
Torquay United v Taunton Town
Yeovil Town v Chippenham Town

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Kick off for the Glovers’ Easter Monday Clash at W*ymouth has been altered to 1pm

The club say that following consultations with local authorities, the kick off time has been brought forward at the Bob Lucas stadium.

 

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Yeovil Town lost away at Chelmsford, but the loanees dotted about the football landscape didn’t fair much better.

This wrap up won’t take long.

Jordan Maguire-Drew wasn’t involved for Barnet in their 2-0 win over York City.

There was no game for W*ymouth and thus, for Malachi Linton. However, he did score and was named Terras’ player of the match in their 4-2 defeat to Hampton and Richmond on Tuesday night.

Dropping down the divisions, Dorchester left it late to snatch a 2-2 draw with Hendon. Ollie Haste played the full 90.

Benjani Jr came off the bench in Melksham’s 0-0 with Willand Rovers, he got little over half an hour to make a difference, but was unable to break the deadlock.

Shepton lost out 1-0 to Barnstaple, Charlie Bateson started the game and was taken off in the 63rd minute after trying his best to find a breakthrough.

Aidan Skiverton was named on the bench for Sherborne who lost out 5-2 to AFC Stoneham (remember them) in the Wessex League.

Finally, Mother Nature won in the battle to get the Gillingham Town and Welton Rovers games on. 

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Yeovil Town’s away game at Truro… in Taunton (more on that bit in a moment) has been rescheduled for Thursday April 11th – with a 7:45 Kick Off.

Quite a lot to unpack in one headline, I know, so let’s break it down.

The original game against Truro was meant to take place on Tuesday 23rd January, but was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch at Bolitho Park – the home of Plymouth Parkway (also, not really close to Truro!)

Taunton Town’s Wordsworth Drive pitch at the end of last weekend’s match with Truro.

Since then the White Tigers have arranged a groundshare deal with Taunton Town, which is even further away.

But, due to consistent problems at Wordsworth Drive still find themselves running out of time to fulfil fixtures.

So, with as much as SIX games in hand on others in the division, sides have had to get creative.

This Thursday fixture means it will take place in between Worthing at home on the 6th of March and Dartford at home on the 13th of March.

Please note – tickets purchased for the original tie are NOT VALID and will need to be refunded (by Plymouth Parkway) and repurchased (from Taunton) for the game between Yeovil and Truro… got that? Great.

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Yeovil Town match winner Morgan Williams has said some half time words of encouragement helped the Glovers grab all three points against Weston Super-Mare.

Williams’ late winner sent the Glovers 13 points clear at the top of the table, but it wasn’t without being tested for large parts of the game.

Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Ian Randall after the game, the defender said; “I think I needed it, after the start, I didn’t play too well today, but, the result is what matters and we got that.

Today was probably my worst game possible, but credit to the players and the gaffer and all the staff, they all backed me at half time and just said ‘you’re better than that, you know that’ and they just gave me the confidence to go believe and Toddy even said it to me, he said ‘you can go and redeem yourself by getting a goal’ and that’s what I did”

Morgan Williams celebrates his 83rd minute winner against Weston-super-Mare.

The corner that saw the winner scored came from Sonny Blu Lo Everton, one of many players who had been creative, without being ruthless, but a moment of quality was all it took

“It’s a beautiful ball, we’ve got players with that quality, and we’ve just got to get on the end of it, obviously Jake Wannell has got on the end of a few lately, so it’s my turn to try and catch up with him”

“It’s not always going to be pretty, teams come back and have a game plan to sit back against us and it’s hard to break them down, but we’re finding a way to win and that’s the most important thing, 

We had a few chances and we knew we should have taken them, we did it in the end and we’re really happy with that.”

Morgan Williams celebrates with the travelling fans at the end of the match against Worthing away.

The win, combined with Worthing slipping up 4-1 at lowly Welling means that the Glovers are now 13 points clear at the top of the NLS, with a game in hand… (if Truro ever get round to sorting a date out), the news trickled through to the group at full time.

“Absolutely buzzing, but the changing room was just saying we have got to focus on ourselves and just keep winning games… we’ve just got to focus on Chelmsford now, try and beat them on Saturday and keep going.

We’ve got a real tight group, the staff are close with us, we know what we have to do and we just keep churning out games, big games coming up, but we’ve just got to go game by game, we’ll look at Chelmsford and focus on the rest of them after.”