Three points were frittered away as Hayes & Yeading United produced a performance in which their waywardness in front of goal was matched only by their ineptitude at the back, writes Scott Newman.

Fisher Athletic came to Church Road in chaos, with a manager of only two weeks and a raft of new players who had never played together - disarray summed up by them arriving with a clashing red strip.

So it was not the biggest surprise when United immediately cut a swathe through the middle and Knight was inches from scoring after just 12 seconds and he was not much further away after 62. Perhaps it was too easy though, or more likely minds were already on Saturday's FA Cup game, because the feature of the first half was how few times United hit the target with countless efforts.

Will Hendry, Esmond James, Ram Marwa, James Mulley and Danny Allen-Page were all guilty to varying degrees and when they did test Simon Overland they found the keeper in top form as he blocked from Knight and Marwa and palmed a James header off the line.

Fisher had so little possession yet they created several decent chances as United switched off, Joe Howe slicing wide and Delroy Preddie saving superbly from Omari Coleman, before Alex Bentley squeezed a fine volley inside Preddie's near post for a 16th minute opener, although the referee missed Sos Yao's blatant hand in the face of Allen-Page in the buildup. It should not have mattered, particularly once Marwa's diving header from Allen-Page's near post cross drew the hosts level five minutes into the second period but moments later Preddie endured one of those keeper's nightmares when Bentley's sliced cross found its way into the net from an impossible angle.

More chances came and went for United before Mulley drew a brilliant save from Overland and seconds later United were 3-1 down when none of their midfield closed down the ball carrier, the defence still tried to play offside and Sam Higgins timed his run perfectly to go clear and beat the exposed Preddie.

United had so much possession that scoring three goals in 20 minutes was not out of the question and Knight drilled a superb shot over the keeper to pull one back in the 79th minute. James tested Overland once again but in the 90th minute Nevin Saroya was slow to react to a lofted ball forward and when last man Allen-Page was beaten in the air, Higgins again went through and finished clinically.

In stoppage time Steven Gregory delivered a superb 30-yard ball that Knight redirected perfectly, heading it just inside the upright, but the damage was done in conceding four goals to opponents that had managed only three in their previous six Blue Square South games.

A goal in the fifth minute of stoppage time cost Harefield United two Spartan Premier Division points as they were held 3-3 at Leverstock Green in a topsy-turvy clash.

Paul Haynes put the Hares in front early on but they were behind midway through the first half after the Green hit back with two goals in a minute.

Craig Totton levelled and Adam Willis put Harefield back in front with goals in the 55th and 63rd minutes but they could not hang on.