Horsham 0-3 Tonbridge Angels - Warrilow: Bring on the league leaders!

The former Horsham assistant manager added: “Everyone played their part. We were strong, very strong. We’ve got Chelmsford City next Saturday but after that performance and seven wins on the bounce we shouldn’t be afraid of anyone.”

Three more points in the promotion locker after what was an awesome display by the Angels, which puts them in seventh place just three points behind Kent rivals Ramsgate in that final play-off berth.

Horsham were completely outplayed and looked nothing like the promotion rivals that their league position indicated.

The Hornets have now conceded seven goals in two games. Frankly, Horsham weren’t even at this party.

Kirk Watts scraped the home crossbar in the fifth minute and the Angels should have been one up four minutes later when Akwasi Edusei burst into the box, unleashed his shot only to see the ‘keeper save with his legs.

Four corners in quick succession after 20 minutes underlined the visitors intent and the Angels duly went ahead in the 35^th when Fraser Logan drilled home through the crowd from the edge of the box.

A minute into the second period and Logan could have had a second but Seuke palmed his header away for a corner.

Edusei made no mistake on 53 though. He collected a long, long clearance from Matt Reed to burst into the penalty area to double the Angels lead.




MAGNIFICENT SEVEN:  Tommy Warrilow celebrates with goalscorer Akwasi Edusei (left) as Tonbridge Angels made it seven successive wins with a 3-0 romp over his former club Horsham today.

He might have had a personal second 15 minutes later had the assistant referee not ruled his spectacular scissor kick strike out for offside.

But with four minutes of normal time remaining Tommy Tyne made sure of the points, although in truth their destination was never in doubt, when he ignored defenders pleading vainly for an offside decision that was neither warranted nor came, to round the ‘keeper and tap into the unguarded net.

Horsham’s Lewis Taylor saw red for a second bookable offence with time running out – the second offence being that of the usual argy-bargy in the box at a corner.

Full marks to the referee for that one, a few more like that and that particular piece of nonsense might get stamped out! In the grand scheme of things it mattered little.

This was real promotion form from the Angels. Chelmsford City, beware!

Horsham: Paul Seuke, Tom Graves, Kevin Hemsley, Eddie French, Andrew Howard (Yinka Salaam 46), Lee Carney, Jacob Mingle, Lewis Taylor, Lee Farrell (Danny Davis 65), Simon Austin (Steve Davies 65), Dwain Clarke.
Subs: Gavin Bolger, Rob Frankland.

Tonbridge Angels: Matt Reed, Ray Powell, Matt Lovell, Tommy Tyne (Scott Kinch 88), John Beales, James Donavan, John Westcott, Anthony Storey, Fraser Logan, Akwasi Edusei (Simon Glover 83), Kirk Watts.
Subs: John Wilfort, Michael Phillips, Phillip Starkey.

Goals: Fraser Logan 35, Akwasi Edusei 53, Tommy Tyne 86

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