Hayes & Yeading 0-2 Bath City

Former Aldershot goalkeeper Jamie Young was left rowing with his centre-back on Tuesday night as Hayes & Yeading slipped to a fifth straight defeat.

Two sloppy pieces of defending helped Bath City send a disorganised Hayes & Yeading to another defeat as the search for their first win since December 7 goes on.

The visitors were well worth their 2-0 win, with goals coming either side of half-time at Kingfield through David Pratt and Andy Watkins, with the latter prompting an argument between Young and Charlie Wassmer.

A swirling wind and driving rain did not help the slippy pitch with players on both sides struggling for grip and to judge the flight and bounce of the ball on the partially sandy surface.

Phil Babb gave home debuts to Inih Effiong and Ryan Blake up front while Daniel Wishart also made his first home appearance in his second spell at the club.

United initially started well, with Effiong shooting over from the edge of the area on seven minutes after good link up play with Blake.

A minute later and Kamaron English had a great opportunity to score but the ball got stuck under his feet in the sticky surface and allowed the Bath keeper to block his shot with a follow up trickling just wide of the post after a deflection off a visitors' defender.

However it was Bath who took the lead on the stroke of half-time.

A drive from 20 yards by Noah Keats was parried behind by Young but Hayes & Yeading switched off at the resulting corner, which was played short to Josh Low.

The winger's curling effort was deflected onto the far post and bounced back across the face of the goal with Pratt poking home in front of a static defence.

Hayes offered little up front in the second half with Wishart's low drive, which forced the stop from Bath's Jason Mellor, the closest they came.

Instead it was Bath who doubled their advantage on 69 minutes when Watkins pounced on hesitation in the Hayes defence to score.

Both Young and Wassmer left a through ball for each other, allowing the Bath forward to nip between them and slide it underneath the advancing goalkeeper and into the bottom corner.

As the Bath players celebrated, Young and Wassmer furiously blamed each other for the mix-up with the row still going on as play got underway again.

The second goal took the fight out of Hayes & Yeading, who failed to challenge the Bath goal again as the visitors held on for a comfortable win in soaking wet conditions.