Hanwell Town 2-0 Evesham United
Thursday 26th March 2026
Pitching In Southern League Premier South
Match Report by Simon Purfield
Evesham United made their first ever visit to West London based Hanwell Town on Tuesday evening. The hosts were in 13th place and Evesham in 17th, two points apart, so important in terms of the battle to avoid the drop.
The Robins made the brighter start culminating in arguably the best chance that the visitors would have. Skipper Amer Awadh worked his way down the left, looked up and cut the ball into the path of Kai Churchley. His shot from just inside the box went wide of the left-hand post. Minutes later, the Geordies had their first sight of goal when Seidou Sanogo had a header saved by Alex Harris.
The first half saw few clear-cut openings created, with Hanwell using the long ball and long throws to build up their play. Evesham tried to be more patient without a cutting edge.
With three minutes added of extra time for the first half, Hanwell took the lead. Luke Cook found some space on the right wing, where he drilled a hopeful ball into the Evesham box. This was not cleared properly by the Evesham defence, and it fell to Sanogo, who slotted the ball calmly into the bottom left corner to give the home side the lead at half-time.
Into the second half, Awadh again was the provider with a ball over the top of the defence to Roger James, whose looping effort beat Sam Beasant in goal, but it went wide.
Just before the hour, Hanwell Town doubled their lead. A build-up for the goal came with good work down the right flank, followed by a Roberto Nditi low cross that Henry Snee poked home from close range. Minutes later, Evesham responded when a good passing move saw Owen Foye set up Liam Hutt, but his shot went well over the stand.
The last third of the match was played in driving rain and a swirling breeze.
With five minutes remaining, a Churchley in-swinging corner from the right was brilliantly pushed over from under the crossbar by Beasant. Then Hanwell created an opportunity where a snapshot was deflected just over the Evesham goal.
The match ended 2-0 to Hanwell and Evesham are now entrenched in the relegation battle after a run of six games without victory.
ROBINS STARTING X1:
1 Alex Harris (GK), 2 Liam Hutt (69′ 8 Jac Lee Poffley), 3 Owen Foye, 4 Josh Barlow (61′ 5 Josh McConnell), 6 Ioan Richards, 7 Roger Francis James (69′ 17 Ethan Dunbar), 10 Amer Awadh (C), 11 Brandon Liggett, 12 Andre Wright (79′ 21 George Alston), 15 Jyrel Bojang, 20 Kai Churchley
ROBINS UNUSED SUBSTITUTES:
13 Brendan Beard (GK)
ATTENDANCE: 209
