EVESHAM United suffered a 2-0 defeat on the club’s first-ever visit to West London-based Hanwell Town, writes Simon Purfield.
The hosts sat in 13th place withEvesham in 17th, two points apart, and proved an important in terms of the battle to avoid the drop.
The Robins made the brighter start culminating in arguably the best chance that the visitors would have.
Skipper Amer Awadh worked his way down the left, looked up and cut the ball into the path of Kai Churchley.
His shot from just inside the box went wide of the left-hand post. Minutes later, the Geordies had their first sight of goal when Seidou Sanogo had a header saved by Alex Harris.
The first half saw few clear-cut openings created, with Hanwell using the long ball and long throws to build up their play. Evesham tried to play more patiently without a cutting edge.
With three minutes added of extra time for the first half, Hanwell took the lead. Luke Cook found some space on the right wing, where he drilled a hopeful ball into the Evesham box.
Evesham failed to properly clear their lines as Sanogo slotted the ball calmly into the bottom left corner to give the home side the lead at half-time.
Into the second half, Awadh again acted as the provider with a ball over the top of the defence to Roger James, whose looping effort beat Sam Beasant in goal, but went wide.
Just before the hour, Hanwell Town doubled their lead. A build-up for the goal also came with good work down the right flank, followed by a Roberto Nditi low cross that Henry Snee poked home from close range.
Minutes later, Evesham responded when a good passing move saw Owen Foye set up Liam Hutt, but his shot went well over the stand.
The Robins almost responded with five minutes remaining as Beasent also pushed a Churchley corner from the right over from under his own crossbar.
