BRIDGES BRUISED AT BURGESS HILL

Bridges suffered at Easter Monday humbling at Burgess Hill Town, as the hosts comfortably ran out 4-0 winners in front of a near 900 crowd at Leylands Park.

The hosts opened the scoring in the 8^th minute. Hayden Neathey had miraculously cleared a goal bound shot off the line, but HARRY LAWSON followed up to power in the opener.

Bridges woke up from that early shock, with Reece Hallard having several first-half chances cutting in from the left-hand side, but Slav Huk in the Burgess Hill goal made a series of good saves to deny him.

It was Hill who got the second goal of the game in the 37^th minute. The home side moved the ball nicely from left to right, Morrison crossed in low, and STEFAN VUKOJIE struck a fierce shot into the corner of the net.

The game was killed off as contest just ten minutes after half-time. STEFAN VUKOJIE capitalised on Will Tillman spilling a low cross and stabbed in at the back post to claim his second goal of the game.

Bridges had to see out the last twenty minutes of the game with ten men after BEN HOLDEN was shown a straight red card. It was an off-the-ball incident that the referee didn’t spot, but the linesman claimed to see a kick out from Holden, and he was sent for an early shower.

Hill made the man advantage count towards the end and extend their lead to 4-0. HARRY LAWSON grabbed his second goal of the game as the Bridges defence failed to clear.

One positive in defeat was the three U18’s who finished the game on the pitch together, with Charlie Bradly, George Falzon and Connor Hayden-Pickering all getting valuable minutes.

Bridges: Tillman, Ferreria (Hayden-Pickering 56), Bull (Bradly 80), Woollard (C), Luer, J Hallard, R Hallard, Neathey (Irving 87), Holden, Velvick (Falzon 69), Fisher (Matthews 72)

Booked: Holden 53, R Hallard 69

Sent-Off: Holden 71

Bridges Man of the Match – Hayden Velvick

			Home				Away				Total
			P	W	D	L	P	W	D	L	P	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	Pts
	C	Ramsgate	21	19	1	1	20	16	2	2	41	35	3	3	124	35	+89	108
	2	Sittingbourne	20	18	2	0	21	13	5	3	41	31	7	3	114	26	+88	100
	3	Burgess Hill Town	21	16	3	2	20	11	6	3	41	27	9	5	86	39	+47	90
	4	Margate	20	9	9	2	21	15	3	3	41	24	12	5	88	50	+38	84
	5	Merstham	21	11	7	3	20	10	5	5	41	21	12	8	91	62	+29	75
	6	Beckenham Town	21	11	5	5	20	10	3	7	41	21	8	12	84	64	+20	71
	7	Three Bridges	20	9	3	8	21	10	3	8	41	19	6	16	78	75	+3	63
	8	Deal Town	20	11	1	8	21	9	1	11	41	20	2	19	87	81	+6	62
	9	Sheppey United	21	12	3	6	20	6	4	10	41	18	7	16	69	63	+6	61
	10	Sevenoaks Town	20	8	7	5	21	8	4	9	41	16	11	14	79	81	-2	59
	11	Ashford United	21	9	4	8	20	7	4	9	41	16	8	17	75	77	-2	56
	12	Broadbridge Heath	21	5	5	11	20	10	5	5	41	15	10	16	68	68	0	55
	13	Eastbourne Town	20	7	5	8	21	8	3	10	41	15	8	18	56	65	-9	53
	14	AFC Croydon Athletic	20	9	6	5	21	4	7	10	41	13	13	15	59	61	-2	52
	15	Erith Town	20	8	5	7	21	5	6	10	41	13	11	17	66	63	+3	50
	16	Herne Bay	21	8	4	9	20	4	5	11	41	12	9	20	62	75	-13	45
	17	East Grinstead Town	21	6	0	15	20	7	5	8	41	13	5	23	48	87	-39	44
	18	Littlehampton Town	20	6	3	11	21	5	4	12	41	11	7	23	63	86	-23	40
	R	Phoenix Sports	21	7	3	11	20	3	2	15	41	10	5	26	40	85	-45	35
	R	Steyning Town Community	20	2	3	15	21	4	2	15	41	6	5	30	50	102	-52	23
	R	Hythe Town	20	5	2	13	21	1	2	18	41	6	4	31	38	104	-66	22
	R	Lancing	21	5	2	14	20	1	2	17	41	6	4	31	36	112	-76	22