Highlights: Leatherhead 2 Merstham 1

Leatherhead boost their promotion hopes with two goals right at the death- whilst Merstham wonder how they lost, and worry about survival


Leatherhead haven’t yet given up on the play offs, and they closed the gap on the top five to five points in an unlikely fashion, two goals right at the end seeing them snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Visitors Merstham knew that victory could lift them out of the bottom four for the first time this season, and a Mario Quiassaca penalty on fifty six minutes looked to have earned them three gold played points, but it turned out that their gold was fashioned from the finest green. One minutes from time Daniel Hector equalised for the hosts, and it was to get even worse for the Moatsiders, as Hector removed himself from their Christmas Card list by scoring a second almost immediately.

The Tanners are up to eighth- their highest placing all season- whilst the Moatsiders remain eighteenth. That’s a two-one double for Leatherhead.

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