WARRINGTON Town paid a high price for their 2-1 victory at Wakefield as influential skipper Mike Tomlinson was stretchered off five minutes from time with another knee injury.
Early indications are that it is not the same injury which left the central defender on the sidelines for nearly two months but he could be out for several weeks with damaged knee ligaments.
In a scrappy game Warrington took the lead after just three minutes when a speculative long range effort from stand in centre forward Richard Chetcuti bobbled under the outstretched keeper who should have saved.
But Town, playing with three at the back with McCarthy and Gahgan filling in as wing backs, failed to make the most of their bright start, with much of the game bogged down in midfield, with neither side creating many clear cut chances.
Shortly after the break Town went two up when on loan signing Sam Finlay (pictured above) beat the off-side trap to fire home.
Warrington again sat back and allowed Wakefield back into the game and the home side were eventually rewarded when 6ft 5 Tom Denton was allowed a free header to score.
As Wakefield pushed for an equaliser Jimmy McCarthy wasted a good opportunity, pulling the ball behind Gahgan who had the goal at his mercy.
In a frantic goal mouth scramble the home side thought they had equalised but keeper Ben Connett some how kept the ball out as Town held on for three much needed points, holding on to 9th spot in the league table.
On Monday they entertain Salford at Cantilever Park, kick off 3pm.
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Town pay high price for win
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nail bitting finnish hope there is no more like that,we should have buried them long time ago
wont be any up til Tuesday as not in the offiuce til then 🙂
why a stand in, Richard Chetcuti is a out an out striker which has ability to play in
other positions this lad has played for Manchester Boys, Lancashire County,
England School Boys also played in Conferance North at present he is an under
21’s Malta International as a striker.
Stand in centre forward because it was his first game at centre forward for Warrington Town in the absence of regular centre forward Tony Evans.
It was not a criticism, just stating a fact.