Match Report
Ryman League: Division One South
 Kingstonian 2 Sankoh 42 Lampton |  Horsham YMCA 0 |
| Source: West Sussex County Times |
A STUNNING solo goal floored Horsham YMCA as they went down 2-0 at Kingstonian on Saturday.
NJ Lampton netted the hosts' second to kill off the Gorings Mead side despite a plucky performance in which they had more than matched their opposition.
The result left YM pointless after their first three games, and manager John Suter admitted he was disappointed with the goals his side conceded.
"My overall impression of the first half was that there was nothing to choose between the two sides," Suter commented.
And if YM had made it to half time at 0-0 the story could have been different, but a reliance on the offside flag was their undoing.
Throughout the half, the defence made a series of successful offside appeals which were flagged late. But when Lampton was released on 42 minutes the flag didn't come and he was the only player to continue playing. His angled shot was parried by Chris May into the path of Saheed Sankoh to tuck away the rebound.
"I had been preparing to tell them to stop appealing for offside, it was a poor goal to give away," Suter remarked.
"I was angry at half time about that, it was very frustrating."
Before the opener, Matt Duffield hit the target with a deflected effort and the K's Wes Goggin was impressive in midfield.
Bobby Traynor and Sankoh combined to test May in the YM goal, but it was Steve Davies who had the better chance.
Matt Russell's header set his strike partner racing away, but as Davies made up his mind what to do, keeper Luke Garrard plucked the ball off his toes. Suter said: "He just didn't know what to do. It was a great chance, one I would expect any striker to have taken."
Kingstonian started the second period stronger and created a number of opportunities. Goggin's mazy run came to an end when he overran the ball and Traynor skipped past two challenges before seeing two efforts blocked.
Lampton then put the game out of YM's reach.
Picking up the ball on the right wing, he ran towards the centre of the pitch, bypassing three challenges before driving towards the box, beating two more men.
With just May to beat, Lampton rounded the stopper and rolled the ball home for a great individual effort.
Suter remarked: "It was a brilliant goal to score, he beat four or five players, but it was a poor goal to give away.
"No-one put a tackle in, nobody showed him outside, they just faced up to him and got beaten."
The introduction of Jose Goncalves and Michael Death injected some urgency into the display and Garrard was twice called into action but YM showed no signs of getting back in the game.
YM (4-4-2): May; Garden, Woodburn, Joyce, Ottley; Duffield (Goncalves 70), White, Simpson (Keehan 70), Taylor; Davies, Russell (Death 70).