Winchester City 4 Bournemouth Poppies 0

City finally overcame a determined Bournemouth Poppies side taking their goal-scoring tally to twenty-five goals from their last four Wessex League fixtures. Poppies arrived at the City Ground not having won in their previous nine matches and the way City attacked for the first quarter of an hour it looked to be a certain ten but how many would they be able to keep the score down too.

Despite all the early possession it was Poppies who had the first clean cut opportunity but striker Jay Rose missed his chance following good work by Paul Cuglietta and Gary Fletcher. The Poppies goalkeeper Winchester born Kevin Scriven currently on loan to Poppies form A F C Bournemouth had already shown some good form before being beaten in the seventeenth minute, a Matthew Bicknell corner to the far post found Mark Blake arriving to prod the ball low into the net.

Ian Mancey had a couple of chances from which he was denied but although City keeper Joe McCormack was never troubled for the ninety minutes, City did not make the game safe until twelve minutes from the end of the match.

On seventy eight minutes Blakes free kick into the area was met by the head of the rising Andrew Forbes and Danny Smith headed home City’s second. Eight minutes later and a carbon copy goal. Again a Blake free kick met by Forbes this time substitute Gary Green netted from the strikers assist.

Only two minutes remained on the clock when Kevin Brewster jinked his way into the area. Brewster was sent sprawling by Poppies player manager Keith Williams who had come on as a substitute to leave Forbes to net his 100th goal for City from the penalty spot, also marking the strikers ninth consecutive match in which he has scored.

City : McCormack, Dyke, Bicknell, D Smith, Goss, Blake, Webber (G Green 74), Lang, Mancey (Rogers 80), Forbes, Dean (Brewster 74)