FARNBOROUGH justified their favourites' tag as they came from behind to defeat dogged Chippenham Town in this re-arranged Southern League Premier Division game.

The Bluebirds weathered early pressure from the home side to open the scoring on 26 minutes with a fine strike from Luke Gullick.

The Chippenham midfielder had started the move himself as he found Sam Allison on the wing and when the wide man pulled the ball back to the edge of the area, Gullick fired a low shot past Nicky Morgan.

The first half produced numerous chances at each end as Farnborough's Dean McDonald struck a post from close in and Kezie Ibe wasted two opportunities. The home side's Nic Ciardini almost took advantage of a poor clearance from Chris Snoddy, but his effort was cleared by Greg Tindle.

For Chippenham, Allison drew a falling save from Morgan, while Aaron Cornwall and Lewis Powell beat the Boro wall with free-kicks, but both were narrowly off target.

In contrast, the second half produced far fewer clear cut chances, but Farnborough despatched all three that came their way.

Once Gary Holloway had equalised, there was only going to be one winner.

That goal on 53 minutes saw Holloway catch Snoddy off his line as his speculative 35-yard effort dipped over the goalkeeper and into the net.

Farnborough took the lead just past the hour-mark when the Chippenham defence failed to cut out a low through ball and the lively Ibe was on hand to beat Snoddy at his near post.

Tindle failed to find the target with Chippenham's only serious effort of the second half and the game was taken out of the Bluebirds' grasp on 89 minutes when Holloway's ball over the top was expertly despatched by Ibe.