Davies criticises ‘inexcusable’ second half from Rebels in defeat at Farnborough

Farnborough 2, Slough Town 0

A decent first half display from the Rebels gave way to an ‘inexcusable’ second half as Slough Town were beaten 2-0 away by relegation threatened Farnborough on Saturday.

The Rebels have lifted themselves away from the relegation skirmishes going on beneath them in the National League South and mercifully have picked up too many points to be dragged back into the dog fight now.

But Farnborough are very much still in the mire at the bottom - this deserved 2-0 home win lifting them out of the bottom four and giving them hope of beating the drop in the final weeks of the campaign.

There are mitigating circumstances for Slough’s defeat of course. In recent weeks they’ve been stripped of a couple of key players, with their goalkeeper Adam Desbois moving to Gateshead and striker Wiktor Makowski also joining Worthing.

They’ve also been decimated by injury just when it looked like they might be the team capable of rising from the middle of the pack too challenge for the play-offs. That dream has died unfortunately off the back of successive 2-0 defeats at Chelmsford City on Monday and Farnborough at the weekend.

 Player manager Scott Davies - one of the injury casualties in recent weeks - felt the visitors edged the opening period at the Saunders Transport Community Stadium and created enough chances to have maybe taken the lead. Harvey Walker was at the heart of it, sending in a series of dangerous crosses and firing narrowly wide of the posts in the first half. But the Rebels fell behind when Hakeem Sandah found the back of the net and couldn’t get themselves back on level terms - despite Johnny Goddard striking the crossbar late in the half.

 Perhaps fatigue or a lack of experience contributed to their poor second half performance, but whatever the cause, the Rebels failed to show up for the second half. Farnborough found the net again through Mason Bloomfield in the 67th minute and the visitors response was muted.

 Alfie Marriott pulled off a top save to prevent the hosts making it 3-0 in the 76th minute. But any hope of getting something from the game was then hampered when Reiss Greenidge was sent off in the closing stages.

The result leaves the Rebels 16th in the table ahead of a couple of tough looking fixtures at Ebbsfleet United on Saturday and home to neighbours Maidenhead United on Friday, April 3.

Davies spoke with Connor McNeish for sloughtownfc.net after Saturday's defeat. 

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Before those games, Slough Town have the chance to reach the final of the Berks & Bucks Senior Cup when they host Wycombe Wanderers at Arbour Park tomorrow evening (Tuesday, March 24). The club have slashed ticket prices for the cup clash to £5 for adults and concessions and £3 for Under 18s. The tie kicks off at 7.45pm. 

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