City wallop Worthing - and enjoy departure from Gatwick

Chi City FC 2017-18 / Picture by Tommy McMillan

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Four points from six made it a good week for Chichester City and they sit third in the SCFL premier division at the end of it.

They came from 3-1 down to beat Worthing United, then had a late equaliser to thank for securing a 2-2 draw at Crawley Down Gatwick.

Ian Worden reports on both games...

Chichester City 5 Worthing United 3

SCFL premier

A second half hat-trick from Scott Jones helped rescue City after they trailed 3-1 to United at the break at Oaklands Park.

The visitors went ahead in the seventh minute when Jahobi Maher, barely ten yards inside the opposition half, spotted Ant Ender off his line and caught the City keeper out with an audacious lob to mark his debut.

Straight from the restart, Chi’s player of the month for August, Dave Herbert, broke through, brushing off challenges, only to have his shot blocked. Dan Hegarty went close with a couple of headers.

Paul Elliott brought a save out of Ender from a free-kick after his team-mate Matt Hards was clipped.

Rob Hutchings got Chichester back into it on 24 minutes with a composed finished, latching on to a long ball that caught everybody else out.

Josh Clack’s mazy run into the box on the half-hour ended up in a bit of handbags when the Chi winger went down under a strong challenge. Less than a minute later United were 2-1 up thanks to Hards.

The Mavericks could have gone further ahead when Leon Moore was bundled over in the area but Maher crashed his spot-kick against the bar.

City broke and a chest-bursting run from Herbert put him one on one with Rui Buckland who, rushing off his line, steered the ball away for a corner that came to nothing.