Turbines Come From Behind to Win on Tameside

First-Half
The visitors started the brighter as Dan Jarvis attempted to bend an effort from just outside the area, palmed away by Cam Mason. Dan Jarvis would be involved again as his corner is recycled by Hugh Alban-Jones, volleying from outside the area, just wide of the right post.
A mistake at the back for the Turbines would undo all their early pressure as Jimmy Spencer pounces on a poor touch by Rory McAuley, finding the bottom corner past Peter Crook with the outside of his right boot, 1-0. However, it wouldn’t be long before the Turbines make the most of their pressure as that man Dan Jarvis is in the right place at the right time to direct a rebounded cross into the top right corner, leaving Cam Mason with no chance, 1-1. Josh McCammon was next to test Cam Mason in the Nash goal, as he hit from outside the box with the outside of his boot but it’s easily caught.
The danger duo, Jimmy Spencer and Stefan Mols linked up midway through the Peterborough Sports half, with the latter having a shot at goal, not troubling Peter Crook too much. The hosts would come close to a second as Jimmy Spencer flicks on an Adam Barton cross at the near post but it’s brilliantly saved by Peter Crook.

Second-Half
Peterborough Sports started the second-half with the same intention as the first, pure pressure on the Nash backline, resulting in a cross from the Turbines captain Mark Jones, powered onto the crossbar by Gabriel Overton, bouncing mere millimetres from going over the line.
The visitors would once again make the most of their pressure as a cross from the right, arrows onto the head of Mark Jones, who rose above everyone in the box to head home past Cam Mason, 2-1. With time running out, the Nash applied the pressure, a cross by Jordan Richards from the right finds Will Hayhurst, heading well wide of his intended target.
Hayden Campbell would attempt to replicate his goal against Banbury United with a shot from outside the box being pushed away by Peter Crook. The ex-Silkmen forward would have another attempt soon after, bending wildly over and wide of the goal.

Line-Ups, Substitutions and Officials
Curzon Ashton XI – 1. Cam Mason (GK), 5. Devon Matthews, 7. Isaac Sinclair, 9. Jimmy Spencer (Captain), 11. Will Hayhurst, 12. George Waring, 14. Stefan Mols, 19. Jordan Richards, 21. Craig Mahon, 22. Adam Barton, 24. Rhys Hughes
Curzon Ashton Bench – 13. Josh Ollerenshaw (GK), 8. Hayden Campbell, 10. Miles Storey, 15. Jamie Allen, 26. Marcel Lewis

Peterborough Sports XI – 1. Peter Crook (GK), 3. Elicha Ahui, 4. Ryan Fryatt, 6. Dan Lawlor, 8. Josh McCammon, 9. Mark Jones (Captain), 10. Dan Jarvis, 14. Hugh Alban-Jones, 18. Ashton Fox, 26. Rory McAuley, 29. Gabriel Overton
Peterborough Sports Bench – 5. Connor Johnson, 7. Ben Fowkes, 11. Jordan Nicholson, 17. Sidney Pereira, 27. Matty Miles
Officials –Robert Claussen (Referee), Adam Watson (AR1) and Thomas Hales (AR2)

Match Information
Curzon Ashton FC 1-2 Peterborough Sports
Tuesday 20th February 2024 – 19:45 KO (GMT)
Vanarama National League North – MatchDay 34
Tameside Stadium, Richmond Street, Ashton-under-Lyne OL7 9HG

Attendance – 149
Goalscorer(s) – CUR: J.Spencer 18’ / PBS: D.Jarvis 31’, M.Jones 67’

Match Report by Rhys Hastings Owen