An Elliot Long brace ensured Billericay Town kept pace with the fellow title-hopefuls with a dominating 2-0 victory at Potters Bar Town.
KICK-OFF
On a challenging start, the Blues started promisingly and had opportunities courtesy of Elliot Long who fired straight at Luke Mewitt before Frankie Merrifield went around the ‘keeper but failed to find the clinical finishing touch.
Long continued to be the key attacking threat and his delivery on 16 minutes fell to Femi Akinwande who saw his powerful effort met by Sobuon Sambou’s block.
A moment of quality from Long broke the deadlock with just over half-hour on the clock, the attacking midfielder cutting inside on the right before beautifully finding the corner of the net from the edge of the box.
HALF-TIME: POTTERS BAR TOWN 0-1 BLUES
It was an uneventful start to the second period as we looked to extend our one-goal cushion. It was the Scholars would have been disappointed that they failed to level when the ball fell for Dylan Adjeu-Hersey from close range but Matt Johnson cleared on the hour-mark.
Nonetheless, the Blues class began to show and Long doubled the lead two minutes later as he drove forward and found the corner from the edge of the box.
It should have been three with 71 minutes on the clock as Decarrey Sheriff’s driven effort was tipped away by Mewitt but only into the path of Merrifield whose strike was blocked from point-blank range.
FULL-TIME: POTTERS BAR TOWN 0-2 BLUES
We return to action on Good Friday with the visit of Folkestone Invicta, match information will be released next week.
Potters Bar Town: Mewitt, Keto, Payne, Eze, Sambou, Abbott, Da Costa, Re, Adams (Stevenson 65′), Beckles-Richards , Adjei-Hersey (Kyei 78′)
Billericay Town: Donkin, Porter, Johnson, Merrifield (Panton 66′), Davis, Miller-Rodney, Akinwande (Emmnauel 74′), Paxman, Steward, Williams (McKenzie 75′), Long (Sheriff 65′)
Attendance: 221
