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Squires Gate 2 (Pett, Ing) Irlam FC 1 (Martin)Att 85

Irlam must be left shaking their heads after losing a game that for the best part of an hour they dominated and deservedly lead by a single goal, however they missed chances and both teams substitutions changed the outcome of this game.
On a drizzly night on the Fylde coast Squires Gate made it nine games unbeaten since the change of manager last month, however in truth tonight they were not at their best but secured three points with two very late goals.
End to end start with the visitors looking the more likelier of the two sides to score, their passing was more precise and also twigged early on that Gate's back four were not the speediest. Irlam got into good positions and wasted chances but on the stroke of half time went 1 up when a cross from the left was met by a cushioned well placed header by Martin who found the bottom right hand corner of the net.
Irlam started the second half on top and were denied when a shot was well saved by Fletche in the Gate goal. Then substitutions Gate threw on two lads who had a bit more height about whilst Irlam changed their centre midfielders a mistake in my view. Gate began to get the ball on the deck for the first time in the game and drew level with about 8 minutes to go from a free kick given by the liner, the Irlam bench were less than impressed with the decision and would have been even less impressed with the defensive wall that was set up, all Pett had to do was aim at the bottom left corner which he did and the scores were level. Momentum with Gate and deep into injury time another free kick was curled in from the left, Gate player got a header in which was saved the rebound was headed easily home by Ing to give the home side the points.