Football: Seven heaven for super Town
LEIGHTON Town have enjoyed a dream few days – scoring seven goals and conceding just one on their way to six priceless league points.
Craig Wells’ men comfortably saw off Chertsey Town in a 3-1 home win on Saturday before sending Uxbridge on their way in an even more impressive 4-0 Bell Close victory on Tuesday night.
The Town boss had targeted eight points from the club’s four home games on the spin, but it’s now looking like they’ll do even better than that, with bottom side Marlow next to visit this Saturday.
Those six points in three days have done wonders for confidence at Bell Close, and also given the Evo-Stik League Division One Central table a better look to it from Town’s perspective.
They may sit 16th in the table, but Town now have a seven-point cushion between themselves and the bottom three.
With their recently postponed fixture against Aylesbury also rearranged, Town now have no less than five home matches in succession.
League leaders St Neots Town represent the most difficult of those games on paper, but no side will particularly fancy coming to Bell Close, especially after the manner in which Leighton sent play-off chasing Uxbridge packing on Tuesday night.
New recruit Layne Eadie scored on his full debut in Saturday’s 3-1 win over Chertsey, and he picked up where he left off with another excellent performance, scoring twice more against Uxbridge.
His 17th minute opener set the home side on their way before Simpson doubled Town’s lead and McBride added a third five minutes before the break to cap an incredible first 45 for Town.
Eadie added his second with a quarter of an hour left to play – by which time Uxbridge were well beaten and Town had their second win in three days.
A double from Ben Gallant completed the Town scoring on Saturday, with Chertsey’s only response a consolation from the penalty spot.
After scoring just three goals in five games in January – including two wins, two defeats and a draw – Town’s have shown fantastic improvement in their last two outings, and now few would bet against them making it a superb hat-trick of wins when basement boys Marlow visit on Saturday.
They are without a win in nine games, although they did earn a creditable point from their trip to North Greenford United on Tuesday night – three days after losing at home to the same side.
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