Erith & Belvedere 2-3 Fisher - I just think we were outworked and I've said that will be the last time any of my teams will be outworked by anybody, says Erith & Belvedere interim manager Sam Groombridge, who brings in Gary Alexander to help out

Erith & Belvedere 2 – 3 Fisher
Location	Park View Road, Welling, Kent DA16 1SY
Kickoff	14/09/2025 15:00

ERITH & BELVEDERE  2-3  FISHER
Presence & Co Southern Counties East Football League Premier Division
Sunday 14 September 2025
Stephen McCartney reports from Park View Road

FISHER manager Ajay Ashanike says his players defended like lions and showed Fisher spirit after winning a breathless local derby despite playing with 10 men for 64 minutes.

The Sunday crowd of 240 were treated to an end-to-end entertaining encounter at a wet Park View Road, where visiting goalkeeper Tommy Taylor wasn’t tested other than Erith & Belvedere’s two volleyed goals.

A headed own-goal from Erith & Belvedere winger Frederick Baker gave Fisher the lead but that only lasted 142 seconds before Ryan Fowler hooked in following a set-piece.

Fisher left-winger Courtney Barrington was sent-off for a second yellow card in the 26^th minute and the home side took the lead through striker Danny Lear’s fifth goal of the season following the home side’s fourth of 12 corners.

But their lead only lasted six minutes as Fisher levelled through a clinical finish from central midfielder Flavio Jumo.

Fisher’s attacking midfielder Tom Jones capped off an impressive personal performance by scoring the winner early in the second half and their excellent resilient defence ensured the away side held out for a big three points.

“First of all, congratulations to the boys, they’ve done really, really well,” said talent spotter Ashanike.

“It’s hard enough to come here with 11, but to have to play with 10 men for 64 minutes was something you have to credit them for the hard work they put in, it’s an absolute joy to work with those boys.

“They gave me the Fisher spirit, they just gave me the Fisher spirit! I thought last season (finishing fourth and losing the play-off final in heartbreaking fashion to VCD Athletic) I saw enough.  This season, I’m seeing even better, like they’ve grown into men, they’re winners, absolute winners and that just shows it.

“With 10 men, to do what they’ve done, even though they (Erith & Belvedere) had the possession, we were still in control of the game. They listened to the game plan really well and they stuck by it and they got the rewards for it.”

Erith & Belvedere’s interim manager, Sam Groombridge, experienced his first defeat in charge, having beaten Faversham Strike Force (4-1) and an old club in Corinthian (4-2) since taking over from Billy Hamlin and Jamie Phipps.

“Disappointing, off the back of two good steady results, but we lost today because we were outworked, so I’m disappointed,” said Groombridge, who was asked what kind of outfit Fisher are.

“Hardworking, they’ve got some good players in advanced areas for sure. I thought their right-back (Gibbons) today was very good and actually I think them going down to 10 men probably wasn’t ideal for us. They worked even harder than we know they already would.

“We said on Thursday night at training, ‘we cannot be out-worked’ and I think today we were out-worked.”

Erith & Belvedere kicked off, rolled the ball back towards a high goalkeeper Charlie Cottrell, who kicked the ball upfield.  The ball was cleared and right-winger Rafael Garcia played in striker Festos Kamara in behind Robert Strachan and his drilled right-footed shot was palmed over by Cottrell after only 13 seconds, setting the tone of what was to come.

“Festos gives us something else that Kesna (Clarke, who recently left the club to sign for League rivals Larkfield & New Hythe) doesn’t give us and that’s pace and power going forward and I think that helped out the team massively today,” said Ashanike.

“No disrespect to Kes, but if he was there today it would’ve been a lot harder for us as a collective but Festos has come in and put his head down. He got injured for the first few games but since he’s come back, we’ve looked like the way I want to play this season because I don’t want to play the way we played last season.

“I want us to be on the front foot this year and it’s a great signing for us. He’s done really well. He’s just (waiting) for his first goal and I think he’ll just go from there.”

Groombridge added: “That’s what Charlie does, he’s been a steady Eddie. You know what you get with him. We’re very lucky to inherit such a keeper.”

There hasn’t been an exodus out of Park View Road following the departure of the previous joint-managers, which has pleased Groombridge, who has brought in a new addition to his management team (read further down).

“Listen, they’re a great bunch. They’re a really good bunch of lads. I’m primarily been a coach so getting hold of them, being able to work on things, training twice a week is one of the changes we’ve made and having Gary on board as well enables us to work a bit more.

“We haven’t done as much detail yet on pattern but we’re more organised for set-pieces but there’s taken in this group, for sure.”

Fisher were a threat on the counter-attack and the impressive Jones showed desire to win the ball inside the home side’s half before playing the ball out to Garcia down the right and his low cross was swept past the near-post by Barrington.

However, Fisher took a deserved lead with 20 minutes and 35 seconds on the clock.

Erith & Belvedere’s centre-half Frederick Cray’s long ball out of defence was intercepted by Fisher’s left-back Conor Darwish, who headed the ball down the line.

Barrington cut inside Cray and his right-footed deck pass from inside a crowded box was flicked first time by Kamara's right-foot, which bounced off the crossbar and the ball bounced off Baker’s right-foot and trickled over the line into the bottom left-hand corner.

Ashanike revealed the move has been worked on during training at St Paul’s.

“That’s what we worked on in training. We work on that really, really hard in training. We’ve done it on Thursday which is kind of frustrating to stand around listening to people making runs but if it works on a (matchday), you’re buzzing.

“It doesn’t matter who scores, as long as the pattern that we want to play actually happens in a game.  We are going to score and we looked threatening all game, just playing our pattern of play and it worked really well.”

Groombridge, simply admitted: “It’s not good enough! It’s the phase before. We’ve got to do better. We’ve spoken on the pitch after the game and we’ll correct the wrongs.”

Fisher’s right-back Jack Gibbons was cautioned for a challenge and Erith & Belvedere levelled following the resulting set-piece, with 22 minutes and 57 seconds on the clock.

Central midfielder Ladic Melconian drilled his 22-yard free-kick into the wall and the ball came out to holding midfielder Fowler, who hooked his left-footed volley across the diving keeper to nestle inside the bottom far corner from 20-yards.

Fowler isn’t renowned for putting the ball in the net, scoring five goals in two season’s at Stansfeld between 2022-24, and two for the Deres last term and two goals this, as Ashanike admitted Barrington lost his man on the edge of the Fisher penalty area.

Groombridge said: “He’s got that Ryan. He scored the other week. It’s nice to see him up there, we don’t want a traditional sitting four (holding midfielder).  But he’s got that Ryan. He’s been another one, he’s been very consistent  and does a great job in that midfield.”

Barrington was still on the pitch at this point but Ashanike said: “So technically that’s where Courtney should be standing on the edge of the box and Courtney was sent off, no one took on the role and (Fowler’s) standing on the edge of the box and he’s drilled it across goal, so we can’t really complain about it because someone was missing from there.

“But again, we’ll learn from it and we move on from it.”

However, referee Gavin Farrington cautioned Barrington for a foul on ineffective Erith & Belvedere winger Harry Day (watched by his family, former Welling United player-manager Jamie) inside the opening three minutes and signalled to the crowd that Barrington used his elbow for sending Tyller Davis-Whitlock to the ground after the right-back had cleared the ball down the line close to the touchline.

Out came a yellow card from his top pocket and the red-card from his back pocket and Fisher were down to 10 men with 25:15 on the clock.

With the ball in the right-back position in the Erith & Belvedere half of the pitch, Fisher keeper Taylor dropped to the ground and stuck out his left leg so his ankle could be treated in what can be described as a fake injury, considering the only thing he had to do was pick the ball out of his net on two occasions and take goal-kicks.

Ashanike called over his team for some tactical advice – Groombridge did the same – as both sets of players trotted over towards their respective dug-outs.

“They played on it,” claimed Ashanike.  “That’s the dark side of football. He’s (Davis-Whitlock) played on it. He knows Courtney was on a yellow card. He knows Courtney is one of our best players going forward and they’ve done their homework and they’ve done what they have to do.

“It doesn’t matter how you do it but some people call it ‘cheating’. I just call it tactical. He’s brought it and the referee got that wrong but he’s got a hard job on his hands to control 22 men on the pitch, so he done really well but I just don’t believe it was a red card in my point of view anyway.”

When asked about Taylor’s fake injury, Ashanike replied: “We just had to change the system quicky. Like I said, it’s credit to the boys to change that very, very quick. It’s really, really smart from them to take on the instructions really, really well and that’s all that’s been missing the last three seasons, people taking instructions and carrying it out, doing what we want them to carry out.

“They believe in what my team’s doing and they’ve just gone out there and carried out their job really well.”

When asked about Taylor’s condition, the laughing Fisher boss replied, “Yes, Tommy’s fine.”

Groombridge added: “We’re a long way away, didn’t actually see it. Just saw Tyller on the floor. The ref made the decision there but I don’t think it helped us in all honesty.  I think it made them raise their game, so fair play to them.”

The outstanding Jones swept a counter-attacking pass out to Garcia, who ran with the ball at his feet towards the edge of the D before his progress was ended by a bookable tackle from Davis-Whitlock.

Jones played for League rivals Tunbridge Wells last season, while Garcia played for England Under 15s in an International Friendly against their Belgium counterparts back in 2017 with familiar faces.

Two players, current Rusthall goalkeeper Serine Sanneh (then 14) and Fisher winger Garcia (then 14) played in that game – and are now playing in the ninth-tier Southern Counties East Football League Premier Division.  Cole Palmer (now Chelsea) also started in the 4-3 defeat - and Jude Bellingham (now Real Madrid, then 13) was on the bench.

“Rafa’s class, Rafa’s class. You can’t be playing for Everton for so long and Fulham and at the pedigree he’s played and not be able to do it at this level,” said Ashanike, who has a reputation of finding talented players from locations that his League rivals do not touch.

“It’s been frustrating for him because if you’ve been playing at that level and you see yourself at Step Five, it’s really difficult for the boy but he’s put his head down and he’s worked really hard and if he carries on, who knows where the future can take him.”

Reflecting on Jones’ performance of pulling the strings in the number 10 role behind his former Tunbridge Wells team-mate Kamara, Ashanike added: “I think I done an interview and I said no centre-midfielder played well against us last season apart from Tom Jones.  When we found out he lives close to us (in Poplar), he was a massive target to us.

“He went to Newham Athletic and we had to do everything we can to get him out there pre-season because he was the magic that we need in there and he’s showing what we put him in there for.

“He’s absolutely showing us, he showed us the last few games but today he’s run his socks off and he controlled it from the word go – he was absolutely superb!”

Fisher’s holding midfielder, Michael Sarpong, stroked the resulting right-footed free-kick into Cottrell’s midriff for a comfortable save in the centre of his goal from 20-yards.

Ashanike said: “Michael normally puts that away with his eyes closed. He’s done it a number of times in those kind of games. It’s going to be hard.  I think the keeper’s position was really good in the game as well. All game, he’s done really well and he’s an experienced keeper so that shouldn’t be beating him but he’s done really well to catch it.”

Erith & Belvedere were clinical in front of goal, scoring two goals with their only two shots on target, taking the lead with 33 minutes and 38 seconds on the clock, following a well-worked corner routine, involving an attacking midfielder, centre-half and striker respectively.

Bobby Dunn swung the ball in from the right, Strachan knocked his towering header into the six-yard box and Lear hooked his volley into the left-hand corner from a couple of yards.

“Danny’s come in the last two games and Danny Lear is back to Danny Lear, he’s a pleasure to watch,” said Groombridge.

“I’ve asked him to do the bits Danny Lear’s not been great at and he’s done that in abundance and we know what Dan’s like in front of goal, so we back Dan all the way.”

Ashanike admitted he will take the blame for conceding from a set-piece.

“See, I’ve always been worried about (that).  I think we didn’t get their set-pieces to the boys and I think we let them down on that occasion.

“I can’t really blame the boys. If we’re conceding, when we change things around, we as a management team should understand that quickly and that’s what we’re going to be working on between us as management. The boys are developing and my teams are going to develop as well but we should’ve managed that and I think if we managed that, that doesn’t really happen to be honest.”

Jumo drove forward and cut the ball out to Darwish and the Fisher left-back reached the channel before whipping in a cross, which sailed over the jumping Kamara in the middle.

Gibbons showed more desire than Erith & Belvedere’s left-back Matthias Broomes to win the ball along the touchline within the channel to put in another cross and Jumo’s drive took a deflection as it sailed over the crossbar.

Fisher deservedly restored parity, as Strachan opened the gate, with 39 minutes and 22 seconds on the clock.

The hungry Gibbons cut in from the right into the final third and Strachan allowed the ball to get in behind him and there were a couple of Fisher players waiting on the corner of the six-yard box. Kamara and Jumo were in space and Jumo clinically swept a first-time right-footed shot across Cottrell to find the bottom far corner from eight-yards to open his goalscoring account for the season.

“Yes, so again that’s the kind of role we’re making in training and we’re doing it consistently and the boys are believing in repetition and repetition and they’re bringing it on a game day and they’re showing that it does work,” said Ashanike.

“If they carry it out really well, they will hurt a lot of teams because we’re a very, very fit team and we will punish you and we punished them.”

Groombridge added: “Disappointing that. We don’t want the games, albeit entertaining as they perhaps are for a neutral, we want to control the games and we want the ball.

“The best way to defend is to keep the ball, so again we’ll go back to the training ground and work on that with this group of players.”

There was still time for Dunn to whip in another corner from the left which was met by quiet winger Baker at the near-post, but his towering header cleared the crossbar.

Groombridge has brought in Gary Alexander – who scored 184 goals in 651 professional games during his career, before dropping into non-league in July 2014 and going on to manage Greenwich Borough, Ashford United and Glebe.

“Gary’s helping out. I’ve known Gary for years, coming up against him and obviously his past speaks for itself but look, it’s my first management job, Gary’s someone who’s been in and around it. He’s won this level (with Greenwich Borough in 2016) and he’s come on board.

“He’s started a new business so maybe can’t commit all the time but he’s certainly an unbelievable person to have in and around the dressing room.”

When asked what title the former Millwall striker has at the club, Groombridge remained tight lipped.

“No, we’re not officially anything on there at the moment, so we’re just got to do our talking on the pitch and off the pitch we’ll take care of the boys.”

When asked about his own future, Groombridge looks like a permanent fixture.

“I speak to Geordie (chairman, Paul Springett, who along with coach Peter Springett, were undertaking groundsman duties before the game), every day. There’s a plan of action. My job is to put the right team on the pitch and get the right results, so I will stick with that.”

When asked about his half-time talk, Groombridge replied: “We shared the talk. We have a little chat before we go in and that’s where I pull on Gary’s experience. I try to take my emotion out of that in the walk across the pitch before we go in there.

“Look it is positive but it’s to remind the boys what we’re good at and what we need to do to try to win the game, so regardless of what was said by anyone in that dressing room, it hasn’t quite paid off but it’s early days and we’ve got a long season ahead.”

Ashanike added: “They played into our hands in the second half. We wanted to see the ball and not go and press like we was doing in a 4-3-3 formation, which we was in so we could see the picture.

“We done really well, we controlled the game (in the second half).  They had more of the possession second half but we controlled it.

“Like we said to the boys, they’re going to have more of the ball but it’s what we do when we haven’t got it. It’s how you control it, so you might not have the ball but you can still dictate how the game’s going and we done really well and they played into our hands.”

Fisher scored the winning goal, just 136 seconds into the second half.

Gibbons hit a diagonal out of defence which was controlled superbly by Garcia on the left and he ran at Davis-Whitlock before putting it on a plate for Jones, who was allowed to take three touches inside the penalty area to sweep his left-footed shot across Cottrell to find the bottom far corner from 15-yards.

“Tom Jones has got the winner today, he’s done really well.  I think he deserves everything that he’s done,” said the Fisher manager.

“Just to get from box-to-box, if you take what he’s covered today, it’s probably more than 12k, but he’s done absolutely superb.”

Groombridge added: “It was a great finish from the lad, yes nothing else to say.”

There appeared to be no numerical advantage for Erith & Belvedere during this game.  They often ran out of ideas as Fisher defended heroically and the home side had plenty of possession but keeper Taylor wasn’t called into action at all during the second half.

Davis-Whitlock cut in from the right and played the ball into Melconian but Fowler’s first time 25-yard drive was heading closer to the corner flag than the bottom far corner of the goal.

The home side delivered their tenth corner in the 65^th minute and substitute central midfielder Tommy Whitnell steered his near-post header just past the near-post from four-yards – but the home side lacked quality throughout.

Ashanike added: “Little mistakes like that, against a better team, we’ll conceded goals like that and we have to be more cautious of that but we’re going to go to the drawing board and speak to the boys and work on that on Thursday.”

The highly-rated Cottrell pulled off a superb save inside the final 20 minutes, the second phase of Fisher’s fourth of seven corners.

Jones swung the ball in from the left, the ball came out to centre-half Adejola Lahan, who laid the ball inside to an unmarked David Mata and the substitute right-winger drilled a first-time right-footed drive from 30-yards towards the bottom left-hand corner, only for the former Stansfeld keeper to dive to his right and use a strong right-hand to make a vital stop.

“We’re talking about good finds, David’s a great find for us,” said Ashanike, who was without centre-half Donald Macauley – the next player expected to come off the Ashanike talent conveyor belt with impressive performances for Fisher – on a three-week concussion lay-off and 39-year-old midfielder Charles Yiadom-Konadu unable to come off the bench due to a knee injury.

“He was at Haringey Borough last season. He’s come in this season and he’s been training with us for the last seven or eight weeks and just got his head down and I think he deserves his chance today, especially with the injuries we’ve been picking up as well.

“He came in, I thought he had good impact on the game, especially when Rafa went off injured.  He came on and done really well.

“The wingers we’ve got at this club are really exciting, it’s really exciting to have wingers like that.

“Rafa’s got a bit of a hamstring injury, we’re going to asses it on Tuesday, see how he is on Tuesday.”

Groombridge added: “One thing is with Charlie, his shot-stopping is tremendous. Not many people will beat him from a distance, that’s for sure.”

Erith & Belvedere swiftly went up the other end and went close to grabbing an equaliser just 58 seconds later.

Davis-Whitlock played the ball in behind and substitute striker Tom Borders dragged his right-footed shot across Taylor and trickling past the far post.

“Listen, we still had chances at 3-2. However, take nothing away from Fisher, maybe we can be a bit more clinical, but we’re now creating those chances, so we’ll take the positives and I’m sure the goals will come,” added Groombridge.

Cray attempted a long diagonal out of defence towards high substitute left-back Ronnie McClean but the ball was intercepted by the excellent Gibbons, who fed Mata, who slipped a 20-yard pass in behind the out of position McClean to feed Kamara, who still searches for his first goal for Fisher, lashing his right-footed angled drive against the underside of the crossbar (31:29).

“Festos just needs a break, the boy. He just needs a goal and I believe if he gets that first goal – look at the run he made as well. He’s so intelligent and that’s what was missing a few seasons ago, last season,” said Ashanike.

“Festos understands the game really well. He understands the run that he needs to be making, without us telling them, they’re doing it automatically, which is credit to the boys again.

“When they cross the white line, what we work on in training, they understand it.  It might not happen and they’ve just got to freestyle it and they’ve done really well with it.”

Groombridge added: “Listen, I thought they worked hard. I thought they were a threat going forward every time and like I said being a basketball game is not something we wanted, so we’ll go away, we’ll watch the game, we’ll highlight some things to the boys, maybe where we could’ve controlled the game better, controlled the tempo of the game, for sure and we’ll learn from it.”

Jones then delivered Fisher’s fifth corner of the game and McClean’s goal-line clearance at the near-post kissed his crossbar before going behind for a corner on the other side (33:33).

Groombridge kept a back four and played with a front three with Broomes (left), Borders (central) and Lear (right), with Whitnell playing behind them but they couldn’t get past an excellent Fisher defence, consisting of Darwish, Lahan, Ange Djadja and Gibbons, with Sarpong and Jumo sitting in front.

Ashanike said: “Again, I have to give credit to these boys. We wanted a clean sheet, that’s what we targeted this season but to go down to 10 men, it’s not something we’re worried about and just to get the win.  They defended like lions. 

“They’ve gone out second half and we’ve got a clean sheet and you can’t ask for much because Flav and Michael sitting in front of them, they were absolutely immense, absolutely immense and those two centre-backs (Djadja and Lahan) and Conor on the left-side and Jack on the right-side, absolutely superb, absolutely superb.”

Erith & Belvedere started pressing for a late equaliser and Lear whipped in a cross from the right touchline and Borders’ near-post hooked volley flashed across Taylor and past the far post from 12-yards (43:58).

When asked about leaving four at the back until it was too late, Groombridge replied: “We’ll go away, we’ll have a look.  The idea being we create two-v-ones down the side. They kept one up top. He was a handful for most of the game. He done well but we wanted to fill the box and we wanted to fill the box with numbers and ask the question when the situation arises. Today wasn’t our day, we were outworked, taking nothing away from Fisher.”

Ashanike added: “I shouted out at Ange, we’ve got to deal with that. We can’t rely on it might going off or the referee might give a free-kick, we’ve absolutely got to deal with that!

“If we want to do what we set out to do this season, they have to deal with that as a collective and it’s something we’ve got to look at and work on it – but we got away with it.”

It was only until the second minute of stoppage time (the referee blew for full-time with 50:32) when Groombridge went with two men at the back and pushed more bodies forward but failing to call Taylor into making a single save is very poor and Fisher ran out deserved winners.

Fisher wanted it more than Erith & Belvedere today.

Ashanike said: “Yes, yes, yes, especially when we went down to 10 men. I think we wanted it. We showed the character.  I believe in what they’ve got, before we would’ve folded, head down, ok we’ve got 10 men but they’ve given us the character, the Fisher spirit that I talk about and they rolled their sleeves up, in wet conditions, not the best pitch but they got hold of the task and made sure we got the three points.”

Groombridge admitted: “I just think we were outworked and I’ve said that will be the last time any of mine or Gary’s teams we’ll be outworked by anybody!

“Listen, I’ve come up against Ajay many times and you know his teams will work and that’s the one thing that you will never take away from a Fisher side.

“Like I said, we spoke Thursday night at training, we had to work hard. I don’t think it was down to systems, patters or set-pieces. Today, we were outworked.”

Kevin Stevens’ Bearsted sit proudly at the summit, having picked up 19 points from nine games, while the play-offs contain Sutton Athletic (19 from nine), Kennington (17 points from 10), Andy Constable’s Holmesdale (16 points from nine) and Erith & Belvedere (15 points from 10), while sixth-placed Fisher have picked up 14 points from seven games.

Ashanike has promised changes for next Saturday’s home FA Vase Second Qualifying Round tie against Combined Counties League Premier Division South leaders Sutton Common Rovers.

“We’ve got to focus on the next game and the next game after that (Barrington’s one match ban will see him miss the home Challenge Cup tie against First Division side Bridon Ropes on 23 September). As long as the boys are focused when we should be ok, just take it game by game and we just ticking it off,” said Ashanike, who comes up against a pal next.

“Lee Flavin is one of my good mates and we speak mostly every day as well, so it’s going to be a good challenge.

“But it gives us enough time to rest some of the boys as well. We’re taking it seriously as we can but the League is more of a priority this season. I want to focus on the League and I want to see what we can do in the League as a collective.

“It will give us a chance to rest some of the boys and it’s a squad game.  We went to Hythe and we done really well (winning their 2-0).  The whole back line was missing apart from Jack (Gibbons) and Michael Sarpong was missing as well, so I trust the boys to carry out the job that we’ve got in hand on Saturday.

“I think we’ve recruited really well this season and hopefully it carries on. Wherever it takes us, it takes us and the way we are playing at the moment, I wouldn’t put it past us (to mount a challenge for promotion or the play-offs), but we let the outsiders talk and we just carry on putting our head down, especially me putting my head down and keep working hard behind closed doors and see where it takes us.”

Erith & Belvedere, meanwhile, host Dulwich Hamlet here in The FA Youth Cup Second Qualifying Round on Tuesday night and are without a League game until Wednesday 24 September when they are on the road.

“It wasn’t our day up there but we’re at home, we’ve scored two goals. I’d like to think we can get on the training ground and we can get a few of the bad habits out and a bit more direction, scoring two goals at home, we should be seeing games out,” said Groombridge.

“There’s a couple of little knocks but (we’ve played) three games in a week. The boys have got a FA Youth Cup tie which we’re looking forward to, so the first- team squad will come and watch that before we train. We’ve got a couple of little niggles, but no majors.

“I’ve said to the boys we want to get into the play-offs. When we are in the play-offs, I want to stay in the play-offs and then who knows from there.

“There’s a lot of points still to play for and we’ll be trying to get every point we can.

“Some of the boys will need a rest, we’ll look forward to Sutton on Wednesday week.”

Erith & Belvedere: Charlie Cottrell, Tyller Davis-Whitlock (Alfie Morgan 79), Matthias Broomes, Ryan Fowler (Tom Borders 63), Robert Strachan, Frederick Cray, Harry Day (Ronnie McClean 56), Ladic Melconian, Danny Lear, Bobby Dunn (Tommy Whitnell 56), Frederick Baker.
Sub: Danny Alexander

Goals: Ryan Fowler 23, Danny Lear 34

Booked: Tyller Davis-Whitlock 31

Fisher: Tommy Taylor, Jack Gibbons, Conor Darwish, Michael Sarpong (Edward Sata 90), Ange Djadja, Adejola Lahan, Courtney Barrington, Flavio Jumo, Festos Kamara (Lorenzo Duncan 89), Tom Jones, Rafael Garcia (David Mata 56).
Subs: Charles Yiadom-Konadu, Eden Deh

Goals: Frederick Baker 21 (own goal), Flavio Jumo 40, Tom Jones 48

Booked: Courtney Barrington 3, Jack Gibbons 23, Ange Djadja 54

Sent Off: Courtney Barrington 26

Attendance: 240
Referee: Mr Gavin Farrington
Assistants: Mr Jack Matthews & Mr Joseph Murray
Observer: Mr Mark Joy