Brentwood Town 1, Grays Athletic 5

GRAYS brushed off the massive disappointment of a 5-2 home defeat by Wroxham at weekend with a fine win, possibly rated among the season's best, at fellow promotion contenders Brentwood Town on Tuesday night (26 November).

On Saturday, against a side struggling at the bottom of the Isthmian North Grays were outplayed and outfought in a defeat that was the complete antithesis of recent form.

However, it was definitely a case of back to serious business on Tuesday at the Brentwood Centre Arena.

It took the visitors just six minutes to open the scoring through Danny Gould, who cut into the box and completed a clever one-two with Luke Hirst before drilling a low curving shot past the dive of Melvin Minter.

And he completed a brace on 33 minutes, stretching at the far post to force the ball past Minter's attempted block.

It was a lead Grays took into the interval, and they extended it just before the hour through Alejandro Machado whose low free kick from a few yards outside the box beat both wall and diving keeper.

Elliott Sartorius came off the bench to grab a fourth for Grays on 82 minutes and two minutes later the Blues went nap when another sub, Louie Remi produced another fine strike from distance, this time from open play after Brentwood failed to clear their lines.

The last word was with the hosts who netted in the 86th minute through Kai Brown but by then Grays were home and hosed and had secured fifth place in the play-off zone, overtaking Brightlingsea Regent who were held 1-1 at home by Maldon.