Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Bowers & Pitsea 4th with 73 points, Basildon United 9th with 52, 21 apart. On recent form Basildon United sat only 18th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 9th overall. Per game in the league, Basildon United were scoring 1.83 and conceding 1.72, Bowers & Pitsea 1.94 and 1.36, against a competition average of 1.66 goals per team per game.
Basildon United had gone 5 games without a win. Bowers & Pitsea came in having won eight on the spin, having scored in 15 consecutive games. The five-game form split read 1/15 points for Basildon United against 15/15 for Bowers & Pitsea.
The match was played at The Gardiners Close Stadium in Basildon. On the scoreboard, Bowers & Pitsea led 2-1 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 1-2 the final score.