East Thurrock Community FC 2, Coggeshall Town 3

DESPITE showing plenty of attacking intent, East Thurrock were not sharp enough to convert a plethora of chances and, as a result, went down to another Thurlow Nunn Eastern Counties Division South defeat at Rookery Hill on Saturday (22 august).

They found themselves behind after just a minute when, from a scramble in the box, Coggeshall's Lewis Mark Wallman forced the ball home.

Rocks thought they were level on 13 minutes when Lewis Rowe hit the back of the net with an acrobatic finish but the linesman raised his flag.

However, they did equalise three minutes later when Aleem Balogun flashed a cross low into the box from the right hand side, a defender failed to clear properly and Albert Hart placed it into the bottom right corner.

Rocks had chances to take the lead, and had a penalty claim waved away when Zac Bussell went down in the box, but they went in all square at the break

The home side took momentum into the second half but couldn't convert a number of chances as the ball flashed across the face of goal and they paid the penalty on 66 minutes when a Coggeshall counter attack ended with Todd Hollocks scoring.

And five minutes later it was almost deja vu when Hollocks added his second.

Rocks didn't give up and created a number of chances that went begging.

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They did get a late consolation two minutes into added time when sub Joe Callender produced a lovely finish but it was too little, too late.

Rocks' run of home matches continues next Saturday (29 August) when Brimsdown, who are bottom of the table and pointless, visit for another league clash.