Match Report
Ryman league: Division One South
 Metropolitan Police 2 Carley 3, 29 |  Horsham YMCA 0 |
| Source: West Sussex County Times |
THE INABILITY to score goals is making Horsham YMCA's survival battle a uphill task.
YM lost 2-0 at Metropolitan Police on Saturday and were left to rue a whole host of missed chances during a second half that they dominated.
Craig Carley opened the scoring after three minutes for the hosts and he doubled their advantage midway through the first half.
The visitors had numerous chances after the break with Andy Ottley and Greg Palmer going close on several occasions and Richard Greenfield had 'the chance of the century'.
Manager John Suter commented: "It was so frustrating. I'm fed up with rival managers saying we deserved to get something out of the game when we've got no goals and no points.
"What we need is a goalscorer.
"The gap above us now is seven points and that's quite a lot. We've got to win three more games than those above us - winning one game is hard enough at the moment."
Met Police dished out a hammer blow early on as YM went behind, an unmarked Carley had all the time in the world to pull down Steve Sargent's cross and place it past Chris Winterton.
That knocked YM's fragile confidence as Scott Corbett was denied by the keeper who could do nothing about the second goal in the 29th minute.
Leon Johnson got away down the left and crossed for Carley to power a header into the top corner.
The visitors dug in and went close when a terrific cross by Tom Lyons - who injured his hamstring again -found Ben Fillery who tapped the ball into keeper Will Packham's midrift from close range.
YM came out after the break and were all over their hosts. "The second half was totally different, we were on the offensive most of the time," said Suter.
Ottely raced clear within minutes of the restart but Packham saved with his legs.
Palmer then failed to find either Ottley or Matt Duffield when a goal looked on the cards and the striker was then denied by the keeper when set up by James Grant.
Greenfield was then introduced with quarter of an hour to go and almost immediately got YM back in it.
Ottley teed up Matt Simpson on the edge of the box and his shot was heading for the corner before Packham flung himself to his right and saved but in doing so pushed the ball back into the middle of the area where Greenfield looked certain to score. With the goal at his mercy only three yards out and no keeper, he smacked it against the bar and from the rebound Packham somehow got back to tip Palmer's effort on to the post.
"It was the chance of the century, this is the worst miss in the history of football," remarked the boss. "I feel sorry for Richard. It's the lack of confidence that runs through the team at the moment."
Dean Garden and Grant were thwarted by Packham and Ottley went close again while at the other end Winterton saved well from Craig Brown but YM lost their sixth consecutive match.
Teams: YM: Winterton; Garden, Woodburn, Flack, Fitzgerald; Duffield (Greenfield 74), White, Simpson, Fillery (Grant 58); Lyons (Ottley 45), Palmer.