As weeks go, this last one has been pretty pleasing for Welwyn Garden City.
A 5-4 success away to Biggleswade on Wednesday started the festivities before a 2-1 success away to Hertford Town in the big derby made it six from six for the Citizens.
The latest success lifts Marc Weatherstone’s side back into the top 10 in Southern League Division One Central as they begin to catch up on their large number of games in hand on rivals above and around them.
The boss was very pleased with the defensive solidity shown against a Hertford side, coming into the game on the back of four successive victories, that had them top of the division’s form table.
He said: "A six point week has been great for us, particularly after so much inactivity recently because of waterlogged pitches.
"But we were much better defensively here than against Biggleswade and I felt all our back four did well."
WGC had a let off in the opening minute, when keeper Donnabhan Green, who retained his place from the midweek victory ahead of Charlie Crowley, overran the the ball, allowing Hertford’s Sonny Coughlin-Brown to shoot at an unguarded net.
Fortunately, WGC defender James Kaloczi spotted the danger and got back on the line to clear to safety.
But that scare apart, there was a somewhat strange, subdued atmosphere to the early exchanges of what is usually a full-blooded derby.
Hertford enjoyed plenty of possession but didn’t cause WGC many problems and the only chances saw Coughlin-Brown shoot past a post, with Gucci Soulya-Osekanongo had a rising effort deflected over the Hertford bar, in reply for the visitors.
The first serious effort on goal didn’t come until the 24th minute, when good work by Josh Bryant saw Lynton Goss cleverly lay a pass off to Jack Vasey, whose well struck effort was turned away by Hertford’s young keeper Will Keirs.
As half-time loomed, Hertford struck when Coughlin-Brown slipped in from the right-wing and seeing Green yards off his line, cleverly clipped the ball over the stranded keeper, for it to drop in behind him and send the home fans into raptures.
But their joy was short lived. In the next minute and the very next move, WGC were level.
Bryant found skipper Brad Wadkins, whose clever backheel put Dernell Wynter through to find the predatory Goss to shoot home his fourth goal in three games in Welwyn claret, for 1-1 at the interval.
It was the visitors who started the second-half the more impressive and three minutes after the restart, a Wadkins back header set up Vasey for another well struck effort on goal, that again Keirs turned around in impressive style.
More good work by Vasey set full-back Bryant - playing against his old club - down the left, but his cross was just too heavy for Wynter, who could only head wide.
WGC replaced Vasey with Bailey Stevenson 10 minutes into the half, the latter back after a three match ban that had taken six weeks to serve, because of all the weather postponements.
Then on the hour and from a left-wing corner, the Citizens wrested the lead, when Kaloczi rose highest and best to meet Wynter’s kick and headed powerfully in for a 2-1 lead.
A further injury blow that saw Goss take a kick on the ankle saw him replaced by Henry Jones for the final 20 minutes.
Hertford pressed in the latter stages, but WGC’s much better defensive showing ensured the home side had few sights on goal and the Citizens held on for a victory that most neutrals would agree they deserved.
WGC: Green, Mulley, Kaloczi, Steele, Bryant, Vasey (Stevenson 58), Soulya-Osekanongo, Wadkins, Wynter, Goss (Jones 67), Babaie (Harris 87).
Subs (not used): Jordan, Kirwan.
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