South Shields picked up their first win of the Vanarama National League North season with a 2-1 win against Warrington Town at 1st Cloud Arena.
The Mariners went home happy on Tuesday night thanks to goals from Will Jenkins and Ashton Mee, but they had to overturn Matty McDonald’s opener in the 16th minute in order to do so.
Jenkins levelled things in the 20th minute, while Mee - who was brought on to replace the injured Dan Ward - netted in the 48th minute to secure the win for Shields.
Shields started the game brightly, with chances for the likes of Ward and Jenkins, but whether it was a heavy touch or a blocked strike, things just weren’t going their way at that point.
When The Yellows took the lead, it may have come as a surprise to some supporters.
Tom Broadbent’s intended pass to Robert Briggs was intercepted by eventual goalscorer McDonald, who surged forward and laid it off to Josh Miles.
His effort struck the crossbar before Mikey O’Neill’s header fell to McDonald to hit it home.
It didn’t take long for Shields to launch their comeback, when new arrivals Kyle Crossley and Jid Okeke outmuscled Bohan Dixon and fed the ball to Jenkins.
He managed to turn inside and cleanly smash it into the net, making no mistakes.
From that moment on, it felt like Shields had the upper hand over the game.
There were notable chances for Okeke and Jenkins before the interval came, and there were some really promising spells of play attached too but none of them could result in a second goal.
Their continued efforts would all be worth it when just two minutes into the second-half, Mee would fire a shot from outside the box into the far-right corner.
There was no chance that Warrington keeper Dan Atherton would get to it because of the angle in which it was fired.
The biggest chance of the second-half came just a minute from the end, when Paul Blackett found himself through on goal with only the keeper to beat, but his effort went agonisingly wide.
After back-to-back defeats, manager Elliott Dickman will no doubt take plenty of positives from this match, ahead of Saturday’s long trip to face Oxford City.
South Shields: Boney, Okeke, Bramwell. Broadbent, Shepherd, Briggs, Ward (Mee), Jenkins, Heaney, Blackett, Crossley (Rutledge).
Substitutes: Seymour, Taylor, McGowan.
Goals: Jenkins ('20), Mee ('47)
Warrington Town: Atherton, White, Gumbs, Woods, O’Neill, McDonald, Bennett, Dixon, Sithole, Miles (Rodwell-Grant), Southern.
Substitutes: Roper, Gill, Smalley, McAuley.
Goals: McDonald ('16)
Attendance: 1,744
Image credit: Kev Wilson (@KevWilson19)
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