Weston ease relegation fears with win at Worcester

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Monday, April 13, 2009
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Worcester City 1 Weston-super-Mare 2: Weston's fears of relegation from the Blue Square South were dispelled with their seventh away win of the season coming against a poor Worcester City side.

Manager Andy Gurney had to recall Craig Rand, Scott Partridge, Marc McGregor and Jack Compton, who all looked far from fit.

Weston made a bright start with Compton having an effort cleared off the goal-line by Olly Barnes.

After a period of end-to-end play with little goalmouth activity, Weston broke the deadlock on 21 minutes, when Ben Wells' curling free-kick was missed by everyone and beat goalkeeper Danny McDonnell via a post.

A minute before the interval, Partridge had the ball in the City net after finishing a neat move involving Compton and McGregor, but was denied a goal by an offside flag.

Early in the second half, McGregor fired tamely wide with only McDonnell to beat and Wells hit the top of City's crossbar.

Weston were well on top by this stage and they scored again when Partridge was floored in the six-yard box and the referee's assistant signalled for a penalty.

McGregor took the spot-kick and tucked it away.

Matt Dinsdale got a consolation for City on 71 minutes, getting behind the Weston defence.

In injury-time, City's Dave Bampton was shown two yellow cards in the space of a minute and was sent off.

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