Crowborough Athletic 2-3 Three Bridges - I think it will be massive for the club to stay up, says Crowborough Athletic manager Sean Muggeridge, who believes three wins from last 13 games will retain Isthmian League status

Crowborough Athletic 2 – 3 Three Bridges
Location	Crowborough Community Stadium, Fermor Road, Crowborough, East Sussex TN6 3BU
Kickoff	21/02/2026 15:00

CROWBOROUGH ATHLETIC  2-3  THREE BRIDGES
Isthmian League South East Division
Saturday 21 February 2026
Stephen McCartney reports from Alderbrook

CROWBOROUGH ATHLETIC manager Sean Muggeridge believes three more wins from their last 13 games will retain the club’s Isthmian League South East Division status after bravely going hammer and tongs with the champions-elect.

Jamie Crellin’s Three Bridges remain eight points clear of AFC Croydon Athletic at the summit, putting in a professional Sussex derby performance, where Tunbridge Wells born targetman Noel Leighton, 27, scooped the man-of-the-match award.

Muggeridge made six changes to his side that lost 3-1 at Redbridge in the Velocity Trophy Quarter-Finals on Monday night and one club man Tom Boddy (ankle) and Henry Muggeridge (ankle) were ruled out with Henry joining his father Sean in the home dug-out.

Three Bridges were ruthless in front of goal, scoring three of their four shots on target, as Crellin’s side have now scored 94 goals from their 30 games (23 wins, three draws and four defeats, 72 points) and are on course of earning promotion into the seventh-tier Isthmian League Premier Division for the very first time.

Three Bridges centre-half Samuel Bull used his chest to open the scoring, as their first two goals came from set-pieces, before Jack Lyons finished off an impressive sweeping move to score his fifth goal of the season to restore parity.

Leighton clinically notched his 23^rd goal of the season with a sublime finish following another set-piece as Three Bridges went into the interval with the lead.

However, Crowborough Athletic fought back for a second time with striker Elliott Duncan holding composure to score from the penalty spot to notch his fourth goal of the season - but Three Bridges bounced back and attacking midfielder Charlie Bennett headed in his 24^th goal of the season to seal the deal with nine minutes remaining.

“Very unfortunate we didn’t get a draw out of that and I hope their manager might say the same. I hope he does because I’m an honest person and I think a draw would’ve been a fair result, especially the way we nulified their quality,” said Muggeridge, who spoke for nearly 31 minutes after the game inside the empty board room.

“They’ve got quality all over the pitch this team and we matched them.  There were times in the game where the quality did show a little bit but we stuck in there, defended really well and we caused them a few problems.

“I think all that effort we’ve put in and not get anything out of it is quite disappointing but if we play like that, we’ll never going to be anywhere near the bottom but the problem is we’ve got to make sure we play like that against teams around us as well, which we have been to be fair.

“But that was probably one of the best overall – from start to finish – apart from the first 10 minutes – that we’ve had for a long time.

“I think it was just work-ethic, try to nullify their quality, which they’ve got all around the pitch and caused them problems and I think that’s what we’ve done.

“The reasons that they’re top is because they can play football. They’ve got a striker in Noel Leighton whose an absolute handful. I mean, it’s not just his goalscoring, his work off the ball, his flicks, everything and they’ve got quality around him.

“I think they can go direct and they can play football and I think they’ll win the League because of that because they can do both.”

Three Bridges dominated the first 10 minutes with Crowborough central midfielder Mark Swainston often going missing in a key area of the field, with Bennett and holding midfielder Abdul Adeyinka dominant and Leighton often dropping deep and also working the channels for the league leaders, who put in a professional performance to win this Sussex derby.

Three Bridges’ right-back Daniel Ferreira and centre-half Hayden Neathey closed the gate shut to deny attacking midfielder Harry Forster around the corner of the Three Bridges penalty area before a long ball released Leighton down the right touchline, leaving centre-half Harrison Mayhew on the deck before cutting into the penalty area and dragging his right-footed shot across the keeper and tricking past the far post with eight minutes and 27 seconds on the clock.

Muggeridge hailed Leighton’s impressive performance.

“Again, it’s just quality forward play and I’m not going to blame my defenders for that. I’ve always liked him anyway but seeing him today, he’s just a complete forward and I think Three Bridges will go up, win the League and I think he deserves to be playing higher.”

Poor goalkeeping from Charlie Holmwood saw him fail to gather the ball on the very edge of the Crowborough penalty area and his centre-half Josh Turner saved the day to get back to prevent Three Bridges’ right-winger Hayden Velvick tucking home his 12^th goal of the season.

But the home side started to grow in confidence after their lacklustre start but they switched off from a set-piece, as Crellin’s side grabbed the lead with 15 minutes and 59 seconds on the clock.

Mayhew slid in to foul Kevin Rivera (who partnered Leighton as a front two in the first half before dropping much deeper leaving Leighton as the sole striker after the interval).

Velvick rolled the free-kick short to Josh Hallard, who cut inside a pressing Duncan before cutting the ball onto his left-foot before putting in a great cross from the right, which Holmwood failed to deal with.  The ball bounced inside the six-yard box and Bull used his chest to bundle the ball over the line into an empty goal.

“I don’t think it was a foul for the free-kick,” claimed Muggeridge, whose side need to improve defending set-pieces.

“Then the ball came in, it bounced and I’m very disappointed because we’ve got to be better from set-pieces. We haven’t been great all season. The ball bounced and it hit his chest and it went over the goalkeeper. It sort of looped over the goalkeeper.

“Now, to be fair, it was a good ball in but we should be defending that a bit better than that!”

Light rain then started to drop from the murky grey skies above and Crowborough Athletic showed great character and equalised through a well-worked sweeping move, with 22 minutes and 46 seconds on the clock.

Duncan – inside the Three Bridges half – stabbed the ball into Forster’s feet, before holding midfielder Connor Pring got involved and fed the ball back into Duncan, whose low effort was blocked before Lyons stabbed his first-time left-footed shot, which trickled past goalkeeper Samuel Roberts to nestle inside the bottom right-hand corner.

“I mean at the end of it, it was a bit of a trickler but the football we played into that moment, it was one-two, one-two, bang! Goal,” said Muggeridge.

“I know it took a deflection and went straight to Jack but we were coming into the game then. I wasn’t happy with the first 10 minutes – they could’ve been two-up and not just one up and I think we came into the game and we started making some chances.

“It was what I think we deserved. It was one-all and I think we were sort of even after that.”

Lyons rarely has a bad game and Muggeridge was delighted with the magic that his number 11 delivered today.

Muggeridge added: “Jack Lyons is quality, he’s a quality player. He should be playing higher really but he’s obviously a talented player and he’s actually getting better, physicality.

“But if you get him on the ball he’s going to find a player. He’s going to score a goal. He’s going to score a free-kick.

“He’s a bit like Fozzie (Forster). Even if you’re struggling in a game, he’s going to do something, a bit of magic and that’s what a lot of teams have.  Three Bridges have got three in this team, they can turn a bit of magic. We’ve got players, they know what they are and we’ve got pace and people like Jack Lyons and Fozzie, even Connor Pring in midfield. They’ve got this little thing where something can happen. They can switch on a bit of magic and Jack’s one of them.”

Three Bridges went very close to grabbing the lead (27:17) following the second phase of their second (of six corners) when Reece Hallard recycled a low cross back into the penalty area from within the right channel, the ball was cleared out to Rivera, who drilled his first-time right-footed drive screaming just over the top of the right-hand post from 18-yards.

Muggeridge said: “They were causing problems through Leighton.  I was asking the defenders just to let him win it and just step back because he’s so good at flicks and things like that, so we were unlikely to win it, so he was causing the problems.

“I don’t want to feel like I’m just sucking up to the team but I think they’re a very, very good side and I’m delighted we went hammer and tongs with them.”

The Crows lined up with three centre-halves (Turner, Mayhew and Bromley loanee Charlie Paye, 18, with two very high wing-backs in Marcus Goldsmith (right) and debutant Samuel Oguntayo, 23.

Oguntayo played five games for now Isthmian League Premier Division basement side Welling United in January before leaving Ryan Maxwell’s side and Muggeridge was asked how his new wing-back performed on his first showing.

“I thought he was quality today. To come into a side like ours and just fit in, into a different system we played today, just to come in today and just look comfortable and very, very good footballer as well.  He’s got everything really. I think a few more games under his belt, I think he’s going to be quality.

“He played left-wing-back to start with and then later on we pushed him forward but what we were doing, we were playing a false nine coming into the midfield with Jack Lyons and sometimes he did come into the midfield a little bit but he was directly playing a wing-back today.”

Three Bridges were caught offside on seven occasions (once in the first half) during the game, as the three centre-halves put in a resilient performance against the leaders.

Three Bridges often played out from the back with goalkeeper Roberts and his two centre-halves Bull and Neathey and Muggeridge was asked why Duncan didn’t go and press and Lyons thought about pressing the two visiting centre-halves – and Muggeridge explained that was ‘a deliberate’ tactic today.

“We were umming and ahing what we were going to do against this side, whether we were going to press them or whether we were going to sit off and we decided to do both,” explained Muggeridge.

“We decided to mix it up a little bit so Jack Lyons was pressing and was just dropping in and obviously when they played out they’re a very good side playing out but they do give you chances.

“I’ve noticed them on some games that I’ve watched before that they do give you a chance because they’re a good footballing side at the back.”

Crowborough Athletic went close on the counter-attack (40:26) when Lyons’ sublime low through ball split open Neathey and Bull to put in Duncan, whose first attempt was blocked before sweeping his right-footed shot past the foot of the left-hand post from outside the D.

“We weren’t on top but we were definitely on par with them at that stage and we started getting a bit more confidence and getting the ball down and Elliott was just tireless up there.  His work-rate was superb. He was making average balls into good balls,” said Muggeridge.

“That ball, that’s quality from Jack. Not a lot of players can play that sort of ball. It was just quality.”

Turner was adjusted to have fouled Velvick just outside the right corner of the Crowborough Athletic penalty area, which lead to Leighton’s sublime strike to give Three Bridges the lead, following their second shot on target, timed at 44 minutes and 38 seconds on the clock.

Josh Hallard played in a low free-kick towards a crowd of players but Leighton emerged from the group at the near post, took a touch before curling his right-footed shot on the turn over the crowd of players and well-beaten goalkeeper into the far corner.

“I was screaming to have someone actually in between because I sort of knew he was going to curl it in there with his left-foot from the free-kick,” said Muggeridge.

“He’s got this great thing of where he turns, the ball goes first. He’s sort of on the turn before the ball gets to him, so he’s very hard to mark.  What he’s done is turned and whacked it into the top corner, which you know the defenders probably could’ve done better but I think you’ve got to hold your hand up sometimes.

“I think the (defensive) line wasn’t good. It was a quality goal, quality well-worked, he turned and hit it. You can always do better when you’ve conceded a goal from a set-piece.”

Leighton’s strike was in the area of the field of the left-sided centre-half and Muggeridge refused to blame Turner for switching off.

“Josh is a top player. He’s young, he’s got things to learn but I said to him in there, sometimes you’ve just got to hold your hand up to that strike.

“You’ve got to have someone with that little bit extra. You can’t blame defenders. I can’t blame any defenders today because they’ve come up against a player I think who should be playing two league’s higher (National League South), not just one (Isthmian League Premier) – I think he’s that good!”

Crowborough Athletic missed a glorious chance to go into the interval on level terms.

Goldsmith fizzed in a cross from the right towards the near-post where Duncan’s first-time shot was straight at Roberts, who made a vital point-blank save.

“He could’ve done better than that. I’ve just said to him at half-time, exactly what I said,” added Muggeridge, whose side created the same number of goalscoring chances as the leaders (seven, but only three of them were on target, while Three Bridges created four on target and three off.

“I said, the thing is with this sort of game, if you’ve got three chances, you’ve got to score at least two. If you get four chances, you’ve got to score three against this side because they’re always going to create chances and score, so you’ve got to be near enough 100 per cent on your chances and scoring in games like this.

“It’s a bit unfair to ask him to do that but that’s exactly what you have to do. As you’ve said, they’ve had two shots on target in the first half and they’ve scored two goals.

“It was pretty even then really. I think you have to score every time you get those sort of chances because what it does do, it encourages the other team you’re playing against. You’ve got to be clinical at both ends and we haven’t been clinical at both ends today.”

When asked about his thoughts at the interval, the Crowborough Athletic boss replied: “I was really confident we were going to get minimum of a draw out of it because obviously the next goal’s vital and we did get that.

“I said at half-time ‘we’ve just got to keep doing what you’re doing’, because apart from the first 10 minutes, I think it’s one of the best first half performances we’ve had for a long time, against a top side.

“It’s something special where we’ve changed the shape and we haven’t coached or trained for it. We’ve gone in there and given them information and they’ve done it to perfection really, so that’s how I was pleased but I was also aware that we could at least get a draw out of it. It didn’t work out like that but I think we should’ve done.”

The start of the second half was poor from both sides with the ball in the air and both sides often heading the ball back to each other.

But Crowborough Athletic were producing some good sweeping attacking moves and they went close once more (4:04), attacking their favourite end of the stadium towards the covered end.

Oguntayo found himself in a central midfield position by the time he played a short pass into Duncan, whose first time flicked pass inside laid the ball off to 13-goal attacking midfielder Harry Forster, drilling his first time left-footed drive flashing past the diving keeper and past the right-hand post from 25-yards.

“We always tend to go better this end for some reason, I don’t know why,” admitted Muggeridge.

“I thought we were getting on top a little bit. I think we were always worried about them because they were just hitting it in behind. They were trying to hit us on the break and it was quite effective to them because there was an offside goal that could’ve gone the other way.”

Leighton was the lone man up front for Three Bridges with Rivera and Reece Hallard behind him and long ball after long ball was chased and won by Leighton, who often cut into the box from the left channel.

An example of Leighton’s exemplary hold-up and link up play came (17:33) when he flicked on Reece Hallard’s ball into the penalty area before Reece Hallard drilled his right-footed shot across the diving keeper and past the foot of the near-post – only for Kehinde Agboola’s offside flag to be raised – and later on Adeyinka drilled a low shot across Holmwood into the bottom far corner (31:51) only for the same official to raise his flag again.

Lyons’ attempt to counter-attack was ended by a pressing Bennett, who hit a first time ball into the channel for Leighton, who cut into the box and towards the near-channel before slipping the ball back into Bennett, but the ball rolled past the foot of the near-post.

Oguntayo sprung into life and a fine through ball put Forster through on goal and his progress was ended by last-defender Josh Hallard and referee Oliver Kaya pointed to the spot and pulled out a yellow card for the Three Bridges’ left-back.

Duncan held his composure and drilled a low right-footed penalty past the diving Roberts (who went low to his left) into the back of the net, to restore parity for  the second time, the equaliser coming with 22 minutes and 53 seconds on the clock.

Muggeridge revealed he didn’t watch his striker get his side back into the game.

“I mean, we were awful with penalties a few years’ back. The last two or three years we’ve been really good at them and that was a fantastic…..I didn’t see it. I’ll be honest with you, I don’t watch penalties. I’ll watch it on the Veo.

“Because every time I watch one we miss one so the last two years I haven’t actually watched any of them and we’ve scored them all, so it’s just a little bit of superstition.”

Muggeridge claimed Josh Hallard should have received his marching orders but the Law (not rules) states below that the referee was correct in issuing a yellow card.

“Someone tell me the Rules. I’m not a referee but I don’t know how you can’t get sent-off for that. He’s one-on-one with the keeper and he’s stopped a goalscoring opportunity. I don’t know how he hasn’t been sent off?

“Maybe I’ve missed the Rules. I thought when he’s the last man and it’s stopping a goal opportunity, which it was. I want to know why he wasn’t sent off?  Hopefully, I can google it and have the rules and I’m wrong but I can’t see how one-on-one with the keeper and he gets fouled. You see it in the Premiership every week. How he’s not sent off.  Two-two, we probably would’ve gone on and won that game.”

DENYING A GOAL OR AN OBVIOUS GOAL-SCORING OPPORTUNITY (DOGSO)

“Where a player commits an offence against an opponent within their own penalty area which denies an opponent an obvious goal-scoring opportunity and the referee awards a penalty kick, the offender is cautioned if the offence was an attempt to play the ball or a challenge for the ball; in all other circumstances (e.g. holding, pulling, pushing, no possibility to play the ball etc.), the offending player must be sent off.”

Three Bridges were now a wounded animal and went up a couple of gears as they went in search for the winner.

Josh Hallard travelled over the halfway line and put in another cross into the Crowborough Athletic penalty area where a couple of headers from Velvick and Leighton resulted in Pring smashing the ball clear from inside his own six-yard box before the ball dropped into the goal.

Three Bridges were to be twice denied in quick succession (33:59) when Josh Hallard put in a left-footed cross towards the back post where the unmarked Velvick smashed a volley towards goal, which was beaten away by Holmwood (for his only save of the game) and Turner put his body on the line to deny Leighton from the rebound.

Muggeridge said: “Brilliant defending, brilliant goalkeeping, brilliant defending because there was nothing you could do another that. That was just a quality move by them. It was nothing to do with us, not defending properly.  We actually stuck our bodies on the line. I said at the time ‘it’s great defending, brilliant.”

The final 10 minutes was played in foggy conditions and Crowborough Athletic were naïve in defending and should have settled for a unexpected point instead of turning it into an end-to-end game of basketball.

“We put so much effort in. They (my players) were tired. I think we were brave today. I think the management team has got to take – I don’t really praise myself – btu I think the management team has got to take credit. We were brave. We changed the system.  We went for it and we attacked them and I think we deserved a point but we didn’t get a point.”

There aren’t many father and son partnerships in the dug-out at many levels in the National League System.

“Henry’s only 32.  The experience he’s got, he helps me out quite a lot because he calms me down a little bit. I wasn’t very calm in that dug-out today. I just get frustrated with the officials….  We don’t want to go down. It’s such a high-pressure League….”

Promoted sides from the ninth-tier must learn quick and game management is key at this level – Crowborough Athletic were too naïve in defence and were punished for it.

“Henry’s got this re-occurring ankle injury. We could’ve done with him on there with his experience today. I think it would’ve helped. Two-all, we would’ve definitely got a draw with him on the pitch.  I’m not disrespecting the players on there but I think without Tom Boddy, without a couple of real good heads on there, Tom might’ve put it in the corner a little bit more. We might’ve sort of managed it a little bit better but saying that we do attack when we don’t need to, we probably should’ve just dug in for that draw.  It was a great performance from us.”

Three Bridges claimed the victory, however, with 35 minutes and 57 seconds on the clock, with Turner switching off for a second time in the build-up, losing his man at the near-post again.

Josh Hallard played the ball down the line to Reece Hallard, who hung over a cross towards the near-post where Bennett buried his downward header into the left-hand corner.

“Reece Hallard’s just quality. His crossing is just on the button most of the time and normally it’s Leighton on the end of it but anyone else can get on the end of it. I didn’t know it was Charlie Bennett,” admitted Muggeridge.

“They’re always going to have chances like that because of the players they’ve got. They’re so clever at just flicking and managing the game. They just react a little bit better with second balls and I think if you play against a side you really probably have got to score three or four against them to win a game.

“I think they’re a quality side and I think they’ll go and win it (the League title).”

When asked about Bromley loanee, Paye, Muggeridge said: “He was very slow in the first game but we were playing East Grinstead, which I’m not disrespecting them at all by saying this but it was an easier game than he would’ve had today. Just the fact that East Grinstead are going through a transition.

“He started off slow. He was quite slow. He’s getting into the game. He’s getting fit. He’s getting used to it and I think that was one of his best games today and he’s going to be a top player.”

The game turned into an open affair and Crowborough Athletic produced another well-worked move (41:19), but weren’t as ruthless as their opponents in key moments.

Substitute Alfie Lambden (who had replaced the poor Mark Swainston, who lost the midfield battle against the dominant pair or Bennett and holding midfielder Abdul Adeyinka) switched the play out to fellow sub Harry Reed before Three Bridges got bodies back to end Forster’s progress on the edge of the box before Pring drilled his first-time right-footed shot over the crossbar from 22-yards.

 Bull – who often drilled many long balls out of the away side’s defence – hit the left again and Bennett cut past three Crowborough players before putting in a low cross, which evaded Leighton and trickled across the keeper and past the far post at the death.

Meanwhile, the top eight in the Isthmian League South East Division tonight are Three Bridges (72 points from 30 games) and the four play-off sides are AFC Croydon Athletic (64 points from 31 games), AFC Whyteleafe (57 points from 30 games), Sittingbourne (56 points from 29 games) and Faversham Town (56 points from 29 games).

Jersey Bulls (56 points from 32 games), Deal Town (51 points from 30 games) and Margate (48 points from 31 games) also have a say in the promotion race.

The bottom eight sides are Sheppey United (36 points from 30 games), sixteenth-placed Crowborough Athletic (36 points – 10 wins, six draws and 13 defeats), Hastings United (33 points from 31 games) and Erith Town (31 points from 29 games).

The quartet within the relegation zone are Hassocks (29 points from 30 games), VCD Athletic (25 points from 32 games), Beckenham Town (20 points from 27 games) and East Grinstead Town (five points from 29 games).

"If you told me that at the beginning of the season, I would've bit your hand off," said Muggeridge, when he was shown the League table on Football Web Pages.

Muggeridge takes his side to Sittingbourne on Tuesday night.

Reece Prestedge’s side were 3-0 up at Faversham Town last weekend before conceding three goals inside the final 10 minutes to draw the Swale derby, before thrashing Broadbridge Heath 7-1 away from home in midweek and they scored a last-gasp goal to seal another 3-3 draw against Sevenoaks Town at Woodstock Park today.

The Crows’ next eight games are against Sittingbourne (fourth, away), Margate (eighth, away), AFC Whyteleafe (third, home), Ashford United (12^th, home), Beckenham Town (21^st, home), a double header with fifth-placed Faversham Town (home and then away) before a trip to sixth-placed Jersey on 28 March.

“We’re not so nervous now seeing that result (Sittingbourne 3-3 Sevenoaks Town) but I was a bit worried when it was 7-1 in midweek. They’re just scoring goals for fun. It’s going to be the same sort of game as this one, they’ve just got quality as well,” said Muggeridge.

“It’s the reason why we’ve come up into this League to play teams like today and Tuesday, so I’m not complaining about it.

“We need to understand that those sort of games are always going to be difficult for us but if we play like that today, then no teams going to roll us over and I think if we put that performance in on Tuesday, hopefully we might get something out of it.

“I’m disappointed we didn’t get a point today. I’m more disappointed for our boys.  We’ve got to go to Sittingbourne now with players that have just put all that effort in, to expect them to do it again.  I do expect them to, as a manager, but it’s going to be a tough task.  I might have to do a little bit of rotation to get some freshness out there because they put everything out there.”

When asked about the list of club’s they are about to face between now and the end of March, Muggeridge replied: “Easy, aren’t they? Easy games.  Like I said, I never moan about the teams we’re playing because they’re all quality and I love this League.

“I think you can’t relax.  You can’t ever think you’re ever going to win the game. I think last year in the Sussex League probably half the games you know you’re going to win when you go to them. This League you haven’t really got a clue.

“I mean even the teams below us, they’re top half of the League below, so it’s very hard.”

Muggeridge believes three more wins will retain the club’s status at this level.

“I’ve googled it, it’s normally about 38-40 points but I think it’s going to be more now. I think 45. What do you think?

“Oh (staying up) will be like winning the League, just as good as getting promoted last year because for everything really, budgets, the club, because I think we got only 13 points (four wins, four draws, 34 defeats in 42 games) in 2008-09 the last (and only) time we were in this League and went straight back down and I think it will be massive for the club to stay up.

“From the start of the season everyone was predicting we won’t get any points. To sit on 36 points with 13 games left, I think it’s a massive cheer for all the fans, the volunteers at the club and everyone’s binding together to try to do what we do because they support us off the pitch as well.

“I think it will be massive and I think it will be deserved for the people we’ve got behind the scenes.”

Crowborough Athletic: Charlie Holmwood, Marcus Goldsmith (Harry Reed 84), Samuel Oguntayo, Harrison Mayhew, Charlie Paye, Josh Turner (Leevi King-Bassett 90), Mark Swainston (Alfie Lambden 84), Connor Pring, Elliott Duncan (Brady Ayoola 88), Harry Forster, Jack Lyons (Tom Pearson 77).

Goals: Jack Lyons 23, Elliott Duncan 68 (penalty)

Three Bridges: Samuel Roberts, Daniel Ferreira (Harvey Woollard 76), Josh Hallard, Abdul Adeyinka (William Irving 90), Samuel Bull, Hayden Neathey, Reece Hallard, Charlie Bennett, Noel Leighton, Kevin Rivera (Ben Holden 82), Hayden Velvick.
Subs: Bryan Villavicencio, Tresor Difika

Goals: Samuel Bull 16, Noel Leighton 45, Charlie Bennett 81

Booked: Joe Kay (assistant manager) 64, Josh Hallard 67

Attendance: 289
Referee: Mr Oliver Kaya
Assistants: Mr Stephen Ryan & Mr Kehinde Agboola