Hawks win at home for the first time in three months

2:35pm Monday 24th December 2007

FOOTBALL

Harlow 6
Leyton 1
(Ryman Premier) HARLOW secured their first home win since mid-September at the expense of poor Leyton.

Dean Wiliams opened the scoring and man of the match Mark Taylor scored either side of half time, while Danny Hill, Scott Curley and James Bunn rounded off an emphatic victory.

Billy Bricknell earned Leyton a 90th minute consolation.

It looked like being a good afernoon as early as the third minute when Taylor clipped the top of the bar with his trademark free kick over the wall.

And it was Taylor who came close with another set piece from a similar distance on 26 minutes, this time putting the ball inches wide of Leyton keeper Sam Tanner's near post.

Williams finally opened the scoring after 32 minutes, running on to drill low into the bottom corner after a bad touch across his own area by Leyton defender Billy Hawes.

On the stroke of half time Taylor found the net with a free kick after taking a tumble on the 18-yard line.

Leyton had a good chance four minutes after the restart but no-one could quite get to a dangerous Aaron Ramos-Gonzales cross.

And they were made to pay on 55 minutes. Tanner was forced into a point blank save by Danny Hill but from the resulting corner, Taylor's shotfound its way through a crowded penalty area to find the corner.

Hill added a fourth three minutes later with a superb solo effort, cutting through the midfield and driving into the box before finishing exquisitely from abut eight-yards with the outside of his right boot.

Leyton substitute Kareem Imbert forced Hawks keeper James Hasell to make a good low stop a few minutes after coming off the bench, but it was Harlow who soon had a fifth.

Tanner managed to claw the ball back from the goalline from Taylor's corner before substitute Scott Curley flicked a back-header over the keeper and into the net for his first goal for the club.

Tanner saved another Taylor free kick before James Bunn scored the sixth, smashing in an angled shot from just inside the area on 85 minutes.

Bricknell refused to give in and managed to net a late reply after being fed by John Bricknell following a lapse in Harlow's defence.

The Hawks travel to Billericay on Boxing Day (kick off 1pm) before a home clash with Boreham Wood on Saturday.

Harlow: Hasell, Davis (Green 70), Taylor, Hollenbach, Kirby, Miles, Lalite, Hill, Bunn, Dave Lee (Curley 16 (Gliddon 75)), Williams. Unused subs: Warren, Dumoulin.