WOOTT A WAY TO WIN NOTTS!
Ardley said he was “surprised” to be confronted by a staunch 5-4-1 Solihull set-up at Meadow Lane on Tuesday night, which forced his Magpies side to rethink their game plan and dig deeper for the points.
And it took a moment of magic from Enzio Boldewijn to open up the Moors’ defence 11 minutes from time when he turned and skipped past two markers to unselfishly hand Kyle Wootton his eighth goal of the season.
Top scorer Wootton put the game to bed with a second three minutes from time following another fine piece of skill from Ruben Rodrigues.
“I thought we’d be a bit more open, I thought they’d come and have a go at us and try and dominate possession because that’s what they do,” Ardley said.
“The players were getting a little bit frustrated just before half-time and forcing things so I just told them they had to be patient.
“But when we got into that final third, we just had to take more risks. Have more one-v-one domination, more crosses, more people on the move, and not be safe once we get there. And I thought we did that a little bit more in the second half.
“We needed a bit of magic and I said at half-time let’s have a bit more one v one domination and Enzio’s produced it.”
Elsewhere on Wednesday night, Maidenhead United added to Yeovil Town’s woes with a 4-2 victory at York Road.
Yeovil, playing their first game in three weeks, went ahead through Albi Skendi, only for Danilo Orsi to reply 12 minutes later.
Maidenhead then took control with goals from Manny Parry and Danny Sparkes opening up a twogoal cushion before Skeni pulled one back for the Glovers.
The Glovers went for broke for it was Maidenhead who prevailed when Orsi added a fourth from the penalty spot two minutes from time.
Young guns Dover Athletic climbed off the bottom of the National League table at the expense of visitors Barnet after a tremendous show of resilience on Tuesday night.
Andy Hessenthaler’s men, with an average age of just 22, toppled the Bees 3-1 at Crabble with centre back Will De Havilland their surprise two-goal hero.
De Havilland scored twice in the space of two first-half minutes before Ahkeem Rose added a third.
Michael Petrasso reduced the arrears but couldn’t help the misfiring Bees crashing to a fifth straight defeat.
Barnet’s misery wasn’t helped either by third-bottom Weymouth winning 2-0 at Aldershot Town – the first time they have produced back-to-back wins this season.
Andrew Dallas gave the Terras a 12th minute lead before the Shots – on the back of three straight wins themselves – had goalkeeper Mitch Walker sent off five minutes later for handling the ball outside the area.
Survival
Dallas then struck his second just before half-time to take Brian Stock’s side six points clear of Barnet in the battle for survival.
It’s as you were at top of the table as the top two, Torquay United and Sutton United battled out a tense goalless draw at Plainmoor.
The Gulls remain nine points clear and it was the same story in the other early kick-off as play-off hopefuls Wrexham and FC Halifax Town also fired blanks.
Altrincham climbed up the fourth in the table with a handsome 2-0 home win over Wealdstone with a goal in each half coming from Josh Hancock and Alistair Smith.
Seventeen-year-old Jayden Wareham became Woking’s
youngest ever National League goalscorer in a hard-fought 2-2 draw at Bromley.
Wareham netted twice in the final 18 minutes as the Cards hit back from 2-0 down after earlier strikes from Kory Roberts and Charlie Wakefield.
The big winners of the night were Eastleigh, who turned the formbook upside down with a 3-0 home win over Dagenham & Redbridge. Joe Tomlinson’s penalty double added to an earlier Ryan Hill effort to seal a much-needed win.
In the other game, in-form pair Boreham Wood and Chesterfield
fought out a goalless draw at Meadow Park.