Ryman Premier

Thamesmead Town 0-1 Harrow Borough

Harrow Borough ended their miserable run of five straight away defeats with a narrow victory over Thamesmead Town on Saturday.

Spencer Bellotti’s cool finish midway through the first-half was enough for the Reds to finally pick up a win on their road on their first visit to Bayliss Avenue.

With the games coming thick and fast, manager Dave Anderson made four changes to the team he sent out to take on Enfield Town on Tuesday night.

Simeon Akinola and Danny Dyer missed out through injury while Victor Osobu was unavailable and Danny Leech dropped to the bench.

In came Adam Louth, back from suspension, Jake Gilbert, Steve Butterworth and Marc Charles-Smith. Michael Peacock partnered Anthony Maissiat at centre back.

Shaun Lucien and Bellotti both spurned decent early chances before the latter eventually broke the deadlock, calming rolling the ball past an onrushing Steve Northwood.

Rob Carter almost pulled Town level before the interval, however Borough custodian James Shea was more than up to the task and kept out his effort.

Thamesmead are running out of games to save themselves from relegation and the hosts were always going to battle to the end for the points on home turf.

But despite an early scare at the start of the second period, Borough looked in control, putting in a disciplined performance that would have pleased their boss.

Charles-Smith grew into the game and was unlucky not to beat the Town keeper on several occasions in the second 45 minutes.

However it didn’t matter in the end as Harrow still had their single-goal advantage and protected their slender lead to stop the rot away from home.