Frome Town claimed another valuable victory on their travels edging past Basingstoke to earn a crucial three points.
A first half strike from James Ollis proved decisive for the Robins the win, who’s survival hopes remain alive, with goal difference now the only factor keeping them in the drop zone.
With non-league day drawing a big crowd and tensions high due to past encounters, a fiery contest was always expected between the two sides today.
The BA11 outfit started the game on the front foot, pushing high up the pitch, but failed to really test the opposition goalkeeper. Pierce Mitchell went close in the tenth minute after an Albie Hopkins free-kick wasn’t dealt with by Mack Allan, but his effort was scuffed and subsequently cleared.
Shortly after, the hosts started to get on-top soon after and Sam Teale nearly paid the price for giving the ball away down the right, fortunately Pierce Mitchell was able to bail him out by committing a cheap foul, which the wall dealt with.
Kyle Phillips was called into action in the 27th minute, producing a diving save to his left to deny James Dickson from distance.
The breakthrough then came on the half-hour mark, when Ollis battled hard down the right, before getting in-front of his man, he then unleashed a shot that squeezed through the keeper and into the back of the net.
Just two minutes after this, Ollis had a golden opportunity to double his tally, as he was played through one-on-one, he skipped past the defender but could only drag his shot wide of the right hand post, which was the last big chance of the half.
The visitors started the second 45 brightly, with Matt Wood replacing Mitchell at the break, he would have been disappointed to not have found the back of the net when Ollis brilliantly controlled the ball at the back post, he flashed an effort which flew across goal, however Wood couldn’t react quickly enough and the ball passed through is legs before being cleared.
From the hour mark, the game really settled down, much to Frome’s benefit and they were further helped in the 75th minute when Mannings capitalised on a loose pass at the back and was subsequently brought down by Dickson, who was already on a booking and received his marching orders.
Despite being reduced to ten men, the hosts refused to back down and looked the more likely to score in the remaining minutes, however Frome’s defence, as it has been all season, was resilient as ever, standing firm and securing a massive three points for Danny Greaves men.
A pivotal clash awaits, as Frome’s crucial game in hand against Wimborne takes place on Tuesday. Your support made the difference today-let’s do it again in three days time.
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A great win obviously and two wins and two draws from our last four games – pretty hot stuff for a bottom four side, BUT everyone around us are fighting so hard for their survival.
We beat Basingstoke, and Marlow excluded, four out of the five at the bottom all win – amazing stat’s... we simply cannot relax.
Amazingly, we are just ‘goal difference’ away from escaping the bottom four, for the first time since the season began. To say this has been a long, depressing, arduous journey is such an understatement. It’s been an ugly grind to hopeful salvation, blood sweat & tears, and not much to appreciate in the finer aspects of the game other than honest toil…