Match report (written by Gorleston FC)

Mildenhall Town 1 Gorleston 0

Isthmian League North

Gorleston were caught cold on a wet night in Suffolk as they suffered their first league loss of the season.

The Greens made seven changes to the starting line up from the FA Trophy defeat three days earlier.

Jake Jessup, Kyle Ingram, Cameron Beazer and Jordan Buttle dropped to the bench whilst Alby Matthews, George Keys and Christy Finch were absent. In came Travis Canham, Lewis Johnson, Dion Frary, Adam Tann, Zach Dronfield, Ryan Curtis and Kieran Higgs.

Playing up the slope in a steady downpour, Gorleston found themselves behind straight from kick off. Mildenhall worked their way through the Greens defences, Jarid Robson turned his marker then fired the ball past Canham into the net.

23 seconds gone.

Gorleston rallied though. Joe Duffy intercepted a pass and switched play to Dronfield on the left but his shot rose over.

Then, just past the midway point of the half, Curtis tried his luck after finding himself in space in front of the Hall defence but his shot screwed wide.

Two minutes later Curtis had a free header in the box but planted it a foot wide.

Playing down the slope in the second half, and with the rain having relented, the Greens had the majority of the play but found it difficult to break through some resolute defending.

Gorleston's first effort on target came four minutes into the half when Lewis Johnson's low effort from distance was straight to the keeper.

Eight minutes later Curtis hit a shot that was palmed away by Josh Pope in the home goal.

A great crossfield pass found Ben Nolan but he shot over Canham's net at the other end.

The Greens were knocking on the Hall door and it seemed just a matter of time before they would find the net.

A nice passage of passing ended with Dronfield shooting wide then Curtis picked out Dronfield in the box but this time he shot over.

With ten minutes left a great double block by Canham kept his side in the game.

Three minutes later, Tommy Robinson went down in the box after a challenge by Kyle Ingram. The whistle blew, the yellow card came out and, with everybody expecting a penalty to be given, the referee showed the card to Robinson for diving.

Gorleston kept pushing forward and building momentum but the game ground to a halt with seven minutes left.

With a Hall player down receiving treatment, Mildenhall wanted to make another of their five substitution but were told by the assistant that they couldn't as they had made substitutions on three separate occasions.

The other assistant entered the discussion as the referee spent five minutes jogging back and forth between the two, checking on the rules, before calling the managers together and eventually deciding Mildenhall were allowed to make their sub.

Mildenhall then decided they didn't need to make one at that time after all.

Two minutes into the nine added on, Ingram struck a superb shot from 22 yards which beat the keeper but smacked against the inside of the post and bounced away.

It deserved to go in and Gorleston deserved at least a point but it wasn't to be.

Gorleston: Travis Canham, Lewis Johnson, Dion Frary (Kyle Ingram 63), Joe Jefford, Adam Tann (Cameron Beazer 71), Harley Black (Harrison Hall 79), Zach Dronfield, Ryan Curtis, Joe Duffy (Jordan Buttle 46), Dominic Docherty, Kieran Higgs

Mildenhall: Josh Pope, Ben Nolan, Jed Wigley, Luke Butcher (Adam Capel 31), Max Kirkby, Joshua Collins, Jarid Robson (Jake Chambers-Shaw 79), Jordan Chipps (Tommy Robinson 77), Ryan Swift (Ryan Swift 90+5), Oli Hughes, Callum Anderson

Booked: Chipps 35; Robinson 83

Goal: Robson 1