Heavy defeat leaves Worcester in relegation zone - The Worcester Observer

Heavy defeat leaves Worcester in relegation zone

Worcester Editorial 31st Aug, 2015 Updated: 19th Oct, 2016   0

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Jonny Bonell reports from Aggborough

Attendance: 576

HOW OFTEN do former players come back to haunt you?




At Aggborough today, it was ex-Worcester City captain Tom Thorley who showed exactly what he could do – as if they needed reminding – when he scored one and played his part in two others in an emphatic 4-1 victory for Hednesford Town.

It was a dominant performance from start to finish for managerless Town, who are still recovering from the sudden departure of Rob Smith and Larry Chambers to AFC Telford United, as they racked up their first win since the opening game of the season.


Thorley got the all important opener when he headed over Daniel Lloyd-Weston after 21 minutes and then helped set up Nathan Modest’s cross which Ahmed Obeng lashed home for two before half time.

Sean Williams curled an effort in off the woodwork ten minutes after the interval before Thorley was there again to cross for captain Ben Bailey to divert home to add gloss to the scoreline.

Sean Geddes did hit a consolation strike with ten minutes remaining but Worcester’s fourth defeat on the spin leaves them just a point and a place off the bottom.

Lloyd-Weston was drafted in for his first league start for the hosts and he kept his side in it early on with a superb reflex save from Modest before referee Tim Wood’s whistle cut short the visitors joy after the follow up was tapped home.

Bar Geddes’ speculative 25-yard chip, City were offering little in the final third and Lloyd-Weston’s good work in the opening 20 minutes was all undone when Tyrone Williams’ 40-yard ball caught the ‘keeper in no-mans-land and Thorley nicked in to loop a header home.

Target man Kyle Perry was causing the Worcester back-line all sorts of difficulties and could have doubled the lead on two separate occasions but first ballooned an effort over the top from six yards and was then somehow kept at bay by Lloyd-Weston’s diving save.

Hednesford were showing the quality the squad posses in the opening half and after Lloyd-Weston kept Modest’s low drive at bay, the second goal their play merited did arrive on 38 minutes.

It was too easy for the lively Modest who waltzed his way down the left, after being played in by Thorley, before pulling the ball into the box – narrowly evading both Tom Sharpe and Rob Elvins – for Obeng to lash home.

The half time whistle did little to halt the Hednesford charge and it took just 11 minutes after the break for them to add a third.

Defender Tom James had already fired a warning shot wide but Williams made no mistake when he was allowed to drive through the Worcester half and bend his 20-yard effort in off the post.

It seemed a case of how many for the visitors and just ten minutes after bagging a third, captain Bailey got in on the action to make it four.

James’ short corner was allowed to make its way to Thorley, the midfielder did what he does best and delivered a dangerous ball into the box and Bailey was on hand to divert the ball home.

Geddes did stroke home a consolation after getting on the end of Danny Jackman’s low cross on 80 minutes but a consolation was all it proved to be as Worcester suffered their fifth defeat in seven games.

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