Leiston end long home drought

LEISTON 5 HARLOW TOWN 2

LEISTON stylishly sealed their first home league win since late September, which lifted them to fourth with a host of games in hand on all their rivals.

However, Blues only lost one league game in that time and were made to wait for their win by their various cup excursions.

So it wasn’t a huge surprise that the high-flying Blues won so convincingly against mid-table Harlow.

The Blues had to do it the hard way as Harlow actually took the lead.

But once Leiston went ahead they dominated proceedings.

Harlow led on 11 minutes, Jared Small all alone at the far post to turn home Ryan Melaugh's left wing cross.

Leiston’s leveller came with a slice of fortune on 37 minutes.

Patrick Brothers stinging drive from outside the box took a deflection on its way to beating Hawks keeper David Hughes.

Four minutes before the interval Ollie Brown scored his first goal for Leiston netting from an acute angle.

Three minutes after the interval, Leiston had another slice of fortune for their third goal when Harlow left-back Billy Jones inadvertently turned a corner into his own net.

Leiston went 4-1 up with a fine finish from home debutant Niko Muir, racing onto Matt Blake's flick-on to calmly find the net.

Another home debutant Joe Marsden, rounded off a fine move to fire home the fifth goal from a Seb Dunbar centre.

A spate of yellow cards in the final five minutes including a second caution for Dunbar, which left Leiston with ten men in the closing stages.

And Ryan Melaugh added a second consolation Harlow goal deep into stoppage time.