REPORT | Quorn 1–0 Cambridge City

Quorn snapped a run of three games without a win as they held on for a 1-0 win against a stubborn Cambridge City side at Farley Way. Courey Grantham’s 38th minute strike was the difference between the two sides, but it took an heroic performance from Joe Welch to keep the Lilywhites within touching distance.

The City shot-stopper turned away efforts from Devon Kelly-Evans, Tyrell Shannon-Lewis, Paddy Webb and Grantham, all within the first half an hour.

Grantham did eventually open the scoring when a ball was allowed to travel across the box to where he was waiting to strike, shooting back across goal in to the bottom left corner. The Reds supporters were up in arms throughout the first half as Webb, Kelly-Evans and Silvio Bello were all denied good penalty shouts.

Despite Quorn’s dominance, the sides almost went in level at the break. A Cambridge corner was headed goalwards but Charlie Woods clawed it away, the ball pinballed around the six yard box as a succession of Cambridge shots were all saved or blocked on the line.

Welch was busy again in the second half, making further saves from Grantham and Shannon-Lewis, Webb also saw a headed effort sail over the bar. The longer that City were able to hang around in the game, the more dangerous they became and Brad Rolt almost snatched a point at the end. The diminutive midfielder got in behind the Quorn defence but Woods came out well to save a deserved three points for Quorn.