FAT: Torquay United v Yeovil 3pm 18th November 2023

I make this one Gary Johnsons 250th in charge of the club.     Lovely touch by the club to reduce prices for this one.     Ownership, Management and Supporters together as one !    COYY !

A nice round number to declare the innings on!

link - teams are out.

Change of scenery in the pop side today to see us win well where we were clearly the better team with Dolan showing the quality we have desperately needed all season to set up the first goal, score the second and could have had another that was harshly disallowed.

Crowe was back in the side, but in a unusual left back position where he did well, and, started the move that led to our first goal early doors by passing to Dolan who knows how to create space, drawing a number of players to him and then putting De Silva clear on the right wing who was able to run into the penalty area cutting back on his left hand side to rifle the ball home for an early lead.

We continued to dominate the half and Dolan looked like he scored a second dispossessing a Yeovil defender of the ball and firing home from just outside the penalty area but the ref harshly adjudged a foul. Just felt for much of the match that Yeovil were getting the rub of the green from him. Another instance was when Ash was pushed in the back in the first half so he cannot get to the ball in the area, nothing given, in the second half Williams, did enough to get away from two defenders and went down under pressure from them in the area and somehow that was a free kick to Yeovil?

I can only remember one corner from Yeovil in the first half which harmlessly went straight out and Lovett just had to make the one save and we were perhaps unlucky to go in just a goal to the good. That was put right about three minutes into the second half with Dolan again, having the ball just outside the area and his shot may have taken a slight deflection, but squeezed into the bottom left hand corner of the goal, Yeovil, then opted for a number of subs with Noble eventually coming on around the hour mark and for the first time we were put under some pressure although by no means back to the wall.

Just when it looked like it was going to be a comfortable win, another foul given by the ref to Yeovil with yellow card bonus for Dolan was floated into the area and the ball was knocked home to make for a tense finale. We came under quite a bit of pressure and deep into injury time. Noble had a chance to score with the ball just going wide of the left hand post, so it was with some relief that the final whistle came and we were still ahead!