Worcester City claimed a dramatic late win against Coleshill Town at Claines Lane on Saturday in the Northern Premier League Midlands Division.
City were the better of the two sides in the first half and started well, with Felix Miles picking the ball up from Kyle Belmonte centrally in the eighth minute and having an effort from distance deflected onto the bar.

Set pieces were a constant issue for both sides throughout the game, with Worcester being the first team to capitalise in the 24th Minute. Coleshill keeper Tyrese Warmington made a good save from the initial header from an Adam Mace Corner, but the follow-up was lashed in by Charlie Wise.

Worcester nearly immediately doubled their lead, with Miles forcing a fine diving save from the Coleshill keeper soon after.
City’s excellent pressure and pressing limited Coleshill to long balls forward for most of the first half, but the visitors very nearly equalised right before the break, with striker Alex McSkeane at full stretch only being able to turn a ball into the box just wide of the post with the goal at his mercy.

Coleshill were much improved in the second half, giving City a warning in the 66th minute from another set piece when Jordan Lymn had to clear the ball off the line.
Worcester failed to learn from this, with Coleshill equalising in the 72nd minute when the ball was recycled from a corner before Shaquille Whittingham fired a low ball into the box that Matt Hughes turned in.

The visitors built on this equaliser and nearly scored a winner in the 83rd minute, with some chaos in the Worcester City box from a counter leading to the ball coming off Coleshill’s Joe Palmer and bobbling narrowly wide.

However, on the day that Worcester City celebrated the tenth anniversary of ‘Pandemonium at the Ricoh’, there was pandemonium at Claines Lane when in the 92nd minute, substitute Elliott Harley drove forward brilliantly before whipping in a fantastic ball into the box for the onrushing Kyle Belmonte to head home.

That last-gasp win sends the Blue and Whites into 3rd place in the division for the time being. They travel to Wellingborough Town on Tuesday for a 7:45pm kick-off.

Match report by Samuel Thomas.
Photo Credit: Julian Pugh.