Match Report
The table gap was wide: 64 points between Maldon & Tiptree (2nd, 92 pts) and Heybridge Swifts (21st, 28 pts). Scoring rates set the scale: Heybridge Swifts 0.69 scored and 2.02 conceded per game, Maldon & Tiptree 2.27 and 0.76, with the league averaging 1.48.
Heybridge Swifts had lost five in a row. Maldon & Tiptree had not lost in 5 games. Over the last five, Heybridge Swifts had taken 0 of 15 points to Maldon & Tiptree's 9.
10 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Heybridge Swifts 3, draws 2, Maldon & Tiptree 5, at 2.8 goals per meeting.
Scraley Road Stadium staged the fixture, a ground that holds 3,000. On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break; 4 second-half goals set the final 0-4.
Goal scorers
Maldon & Tiptree: Anthony Wordsworth (69'), Jack Cawley (76'), Tom Eastman (61'), Malachi Napa (89')