Halifax Courier

Cosgrove comes off bench to bag late winner

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Substitute Aaron Cosgrave scored in the eighth minute of added time to earn FC Halifax Town their first home win for nearly three months as they beat Maidenhead United 2-1.

Adan George got Town off to a great start in an impressive first-half but Tobi ShoSilva scored against his old club to seemingly deprive Town of three points.

After an encouragin­g firsthalf, Halifax tailed off badly in the second-half, but Cosgrave produced a dramatic last ditch winner as they won back-to-back games for the first time since October.

After Andrew Oluwabori's early opener at Dorking, George followed suit just seven minutes in after brilliant play by Jack Evans, bursting upfield with a one-two and then playing in George, who got past the last defender and kept his cool to finish one-onone for his first Town goal.

It wasn't perfect from the hosts, there were still misplaced passes - underminin­g otherwise lively performanc­es by Luke Summerfiel­d and Andrew Oluwabori..

There wasn't the same fluidity about Halifax after the interval, while the visitors were gradually growing in confidence.It wasn't the same performanc­e from Town since the restart and it wasn't the same game.

And they equalised through ex-Town striker ShoSilva, who converted from close range after a superb low cross from the right.

A late injury left Maidenhead with ten men and the visitors retreated to their own box to preserve their point, and came extremely close.

But a low cross from the right of the box was hammered in at close range by substitute Cosgrave to rescue a win from the jaws of a draw.

 ?? ?? Goal scorer Adan George. Pic: Darren Murphy/FC Halifax Town
Goal scorer Adan George. Pic: Darren Murphy/FC Halifax Town

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