BATTLING WHITES ARE FORCED TO FIGHT HARD
Harrow suffer terrible start...
THE WHITES made it three League wins from three, but this was far from straightforward after an under-par performance.
The Whites laboured after having made a dream start when the visitors were stopped in their tracks by an early Shaquille Hippolyte-Patrick strike.
Within the first minute the winger turned just inside the box and fired a firm finish past visiting keeper Hafed Al-Droubi, but that didn’t faze Harrow who took only six minutes to respond.
A George Moore freekick from just outside the area forced Salisbury goalkeeper Gerard Benfield to hastily beat the ball away.
On nine minutes Harrow should have been on terms when Anthony O’Connor outstripped the home defence but fired over the top.
Five minutes later it was Al-Droubi in action after Warren Bentley got to he byline before pulling the ball back to Dan Fitchett whose effort, although on target, was not strong enough to beat the keeper.
On 26 minutes Al-Droubi saved a goal-bound effort from Hippolyte-Patrick, but two minutes later Salisbury might have conceded had it not been for a superb last ditch tackle by defender Tom Leak on Dylan Kearney.
Harrow levelled things up on 31 minutes when Benfield was forced to parry a Moore effort and Frank Keita made no mistake.
Another chance fell to the Whites on 38 minutes, but they could not take advantage of a searching Lewis Benson free-kick and at the other end Harrow had a goal disallowed for off-side.
The visitors again
might have gone ahead on 50 minutes when it took a brilliant stop from Benfield to deny O’Connor.
When Nathaniel Oseni powered in a 56th minute header from Benson’s corner, that established an unlikely lead for the homeside, but they might have increased that lead on 74 minutes when Al-Droubi was stranded out of his area and the ball fell to Fitchett whose attempted finish was kept out by a defender, and three minutes later the same player wasted a great squared ball.
Harrow should have equalised with eight minutes remaining when Kearney was denied by Benfield, but Ryan Moss skied an easy chance from the keeper’s parry, and they paid dearly when Hippolyte-Patrick profited from a Bay Downing cross to score Salisbury’s thir third.