Peacehaven v Lancing

A crazy opening 10 minutes to this fixture saw 3 goals, and the possibility of a high scoring game, but in the end both sides will have been happy to settle for a point as they head towards their Christmas fixtures.

Anyone who was late arriving at the ground will have missed Peacehaven's dream start. In the first minute, Craig Hall's perfect chip through the defence landed perfectly for Wes Millis on the edge of the six yard box, and he dummied De Bernardo in the away goal before calmly slotting home.

Against an in-form team lying in 4th place, it was a valuable goal, and a valuable lead, but it was only to last 4 minutes. Lancing levelled with an incredible strike from Sam O'Regan who ran onto a crossfield pass, just inside the Peacehaven half, and his rifling shot flew into Heyburn's top right corner, despite the keeper's best efforts to make a save.

Within 5 minutes the visitors where in front when Darren Boswell ran on to a short corner, and he made his way into the "Haven area before floating the ball across the box, and into the far corner, to complete a very unpredictable opening 10 minutes.

In recent weeks, the chances of Peacehaven coming back from such a start would have been slim, but there seemed to be a renewed positive feeling amongst the side, and the goal only seemed to rally Peacehaven.

They were unlucky not to equalise midway through the half when De Barnardo pulled off a string of close range saves involving Wes Millis and Ryan Bradley but, having scored in the first minute, Peacehaven were to leave it until the last minute of the half to find their leveller.

Matt Fleming was upended just outside the box and Carl Dunk's perfect free-kick flew past the stationary De Bernardo to give Peacehaven the upper hand as they went into the break.

Ten minutes after the restart they were to have a golden chance to take control of the game when Murray's flighted cross saw De Bernardo make a clumsy ariel challenge, flattening Ryan Bradley in the process and leaving Mr Meilack with no option but to point to the spot. Carl Dunk stepped up for the kick, but the keeper guessed the right way, and he smothered Dunk's low shot.

Midway through the half, Lancing nearly made Peacehaven pay for the miss when Graham Martin beat the offside trap and he found himself clear with only Josh Heyburn to beat, but his low drive was well saved by the Haven keeper to keep the scores level.

Peacehaven came out on top possession-wise for the rest of the half, but were unable to capitalise on this. As the game came to an end, substitute Jack Loraine caused confusion in the home defence when we beat to men out wide before driving low across the box, only to see a defender deflect the ball narrowly past his own post.

It was a positive afternoon for Peacehaven and, despite some recent disappointing Cup results, they have now only lost one of their last five League games, and will be looking to defend their unbeaten away League record when they travel to Lingfield on Tuesday evening.