Ben Catt. Photo: Richard Milam<\/p>\n
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Windsor & Eton need four more wins to wrap up the Combined Counties Premier Division North title after securing a 4-1 victory away to play-off hopefuls Reading City on Tuesday – but getting them will be easier said than done given their punishing schedule.<\/p>\n
The Royalists moved to within six points of leaders Ashford Town – still with three matches in hand – after producing an impressive second half fightback.<\/p>\n
An inspired second half display carried the Royalists to victory over City at Scours Lane on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Dan Davies had fired the home side in front after only five minutes and Reading held onto that advantage until the 49th minute, when Jack Mazzone levelled the scores.<\/p>\n
A quickfire second from Luke Philips in the 52nd minute turned the tide in Windsor & Eton\u2019s direction, and they built on that advantage when Ben Catt headed home Harry Murphy\u2019s corner in the 64th minute. Catt headed home once again from a long throw in the 68th minute to put the icing on 19 minute second half goal blitz.<\/p>\n
Rob Webb\u2019s side are now unbeaten in five matches after losing to Ashford at home at the back end of March, but they\u2019re starting to reel them in with the three wins they\u2019ve picked up from their last four matches.<\/p>\n
They have four remaining matches – all away from Stag Meadow – and some tricky opponents to overcome.<\/p>\n
On Thursday night (April 16) they visit 15th placed British Airways before going away to fifth placed Ardley United on Saturday, a tough looking assignment given the hectic schedule they currently find themselves in.<\/p>\n
After that they round off the campaign at struggling North Leigh on Tuesday evening – though North Leigh shocked play-off hopefuls Burnham 1-0 on Tuesday – before finishing their season at 14th placed Hilltop on Friday (April 24).<\/p>\n
Should Ashford win their final game at home to Milton United on Saturday, the Royalists will need to win all their remaining games to become champions and claim automatic promotion to step 4.<\/p>\n
If they trip up though, they\u2019ll have another shot at promotion through the play-offs once the season has concluded.<\/p>\n
At the other end of the Combined Counties table, Holyport face a straight shootout for survival with Amersham Town at Spratleys Meadow on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Lee Ovens and Dan Rapley\u2019s side hold a slender one-point advantage over Town at the bottom of the table, but a win for Amersham on Saturday would push their visitors into the relegation zone on the final day of the season.<\/p>\n
Amersham have picked up useful points at home to Reading City and British Airways to move to within striking distance of Port. While after successive league defeats – the second of them to Burnham – Holyport kept their noses above water with a hugely important 1-0 win over Kidlington on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Matteo Cedrola (76′) grabbed the goal – and a superb one at that – which could yet save their season.<\/p>\n
It means that if they manage to avoid defeat at Amersham this weekend, they\u2019ll survive at step 5.<\/p>\n
Fourth placed Burnham will finish in the play-offs this season, despite Tuesday\u2019s disappointing defeat at the hands of lowly North Leigh after Reading City failed to beat Windsor & Eton.<\/p>\n
With one game left to play they sit on 71 points, just a point behind second placed Broadfields United, ahead of their final game at Harefield United on Saturday.<\/p>\n
However, it does now make it more likely they\u2019ll have to play away from home in the first of their play-off clashes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Catt. Photo: Richard Milam — Windsor & Eton need four more wins to wrap up the Combined…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[75035,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-166372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-football-windsor-eton","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}