GFC targeting three home wins in a row
GUERNSEY FC can make it a perfect month on home soil this afternoon.
It will not be an easy task, with fifth-placed Chertsey Town the visitors to Footes Lane, but the Green Lions are in fine form having won their two previous home games in February 3-1 against both Binfield and Hanworth Villa.
They are also coming off the back of their last-gasp come-from-behind win at Binfield in midweek, a result that saw GFC climb out of the relegation play-off places into 16th in Isthmian South Central.
Captain-on-the-night Ross Allen scored the equaliser in that 2-1 success before Sam Murray’s persistence paid off in the 90th minute, closing down and dispossessing the Binfield goalkeeper to net his seventh goal of the season and snatch all three points at the death.
Allen called the late victory ‘a massive bonus’ in a game where GFC were missing several regulars and had endured a tough afternoon the previous weekend away at Ashford Town.
‘I think we’ve been riding a bit of a wave for the last few weeks and the performance on Saturday [at Ashford] wasn’t quite there,’ the club’s record-scorer told GFCTV after his 276th goal for the Green Lions.
‘Although on the one hand you chalk it down to just a bit of a blip, at the same time it gets in your head a little bit.
'We were a bit deflated after that second half on Saturday and the way the whole game went, when we knew it was a big game and we probably should have got something out of it.
‘So to bounce back so quickly – it’s always a bit of a freebie, we say, on these midweek away ones – we’re just delighted, because all the boys deserve it from the graft we’ve been putting on over the last few weeks.’
Chertsey Town arrive in the island just two points off third place and right in the mix for the promotion play-offs.
Like GFC, though, the ‘Curfews’ have also had a hectic February schedule, with this being their seventh game this month.
They have won two and lost three of those, with their most recent game ending in a 1-1 draw with Bedfont Sports.
. GFC v Chertsey Town kicks off at 1pm at Footes Lane.
