SHAYMEN FIGHT BACK TO CRUSH THE LINNETS
FOUR goals in a scintillating 15-minute spell either side of the break saw FC Halifax Town complete an impressive fightback to enhance their play-off claims.
The Shaymen were clearly still licking their wounds from Tuesday night’s 4-0 home thumping by Wrexham when goals from Michael Gash and Sonny Carey gave King’s Lynn a shock 2-0 lead inside 25 minutes.
But Pete Wild’s men soon found their feet with Billy Chadwick and Jake Hyde drawing them level by the break before Luke Summerfield and Jack Earing wrapped up victory.
“We always looked a threat,” a relieved Wild said. “We did well to see the game out and it’s always pleasing to score four goals at home. It is good to get back to winning ways.”
Wild, however, will be concerned with the Shaymen’s slow start and it was the Linnets who opened the scoring on 13 minutes – Tyler Denton delivering the ball with pace into the box for Gash to volley home expertly into the top right corner.
Twelve minuites later, the Shaymen were stunned further when King’s Lynn doubled their advantage. Simeon Jackson’s initial shot from the edge of the box was blocked, but fell directly into the path of Carey, who coolly fired home.
Despite their double setback, Halifax began to pile on pressure on in a bid to get back into the game, and on 42 minutes they got their reward. A brilliant ball into the box by Neill Byrne was picked up by Chadwick, who fired the ball into the net, giving the Shaymen a lifeline.
Just three minutes later, Halifax had their equaliser. A deep Summerfield freekick was expertly delivered into the box, picking out Hyde, who controlled well before coolly firing the ball into the bottom corner.
Halifax continued their momentum at the restart and just five minutes in they took the lead when Hyde brilliantly held the ball up and laid off to Summerfield just outside the box, who fired into the bottom corner with the outside of his boot
From there, Halifax continued to dominate and had their fourth goal on 57 minutes. A miscued clearance from Ethan Coleman saw the ball fall right into the path of Earing, who could not miss an open net from close range.
FC Halifax saw the saw out expertly with no further alarms to move back into the play-off places, just a point off the cut-off mark.
As for King’s Lynn, defeat sees them rooted in the National League’s bottom three but manager Ian Culverhouse was encouraged by green shoots of improvement.
“We started well and finished well It was a disappointing middle spell which has cost us ultimately,” Culverhouse said.