Gower aims for two wins over Easter

Canterbury City

Joint-boss Ada Gower is targeting a six-point Easter as Canterbury City head into the final month of the Southern Counties East League campaign. Canterbury, 3-1 winners against Corinthian last Wednesday, return to action after an 11-day break, looking to build on the victory over their top-five opponents, beaten for only the third time on their travels this season. City host Croydon at Ashford on Saturday, before travelling to Crowborough on Monday. Gower (pictured) said: “You are never quite sure what Croydon will be like. They work hard in games, and they compensate what they lack in talent with work-rate. “Crowborough seem to be not the side they were last season, so we would hope to have a good chance of winning both games.” All City’s remaining fixtures are against teams below them in the table, apart from sixth-placed Beckenham in the penultimate week of the season. Gower added: “We are not going anywhere in terms of promotion and relegation but still want to finish as high as we can.” Top scorer Rob Lawrence hit his 14th goal of the season against Corinthian, book-ended by early and late strikes from new-boys Patrick Nzuzi, his second in successive games, and substitute Dave Pilcher. Gower said: “It was an encouraging win. Corinthian played some nice football but were toothless up front, which surprised us.” Nzuzi put City in front after eight minutes, following a clever one-two with Dean Grant. City held the lead until the hour mark when Josh James levelled for the visitors, his twice deflected effort from the edge of the box beating keeper Shannon Harris. Lawrence then made and scored City’s second 19 minutes from time. He set up Grant for a shot that visiting keeper Billy Johnson kept out but stayed alert to finish well. Grant was the provider for the third, laying it off for Pilcher to do the rest.