Ware 1

Wingate & Finchley 0

Toothless Wingate have now gone four games in a row without scoring, losing all of them, but yet again their performance deserved at least a point.

After lone striker Ben Strevens headed straight at the home keeper early on, the Blues reserve custodian Michael Kalli was forced to prove his mettle.

Kalli made two superb stops, but was left helpless in the ninth minute when Lee Mitchell fed Mark Stanley who lobbed the advancing keeper from just outside the box.

Wingate hit back with Strevens having a couple of chances, Craig Pearl bringing the best out of home keeper Martyn Patching with a piledriver, and Jacques Hanover and Danny Piler going close.

Kalli continued his outstanding display in the second half, twice denying Dean Callcut from point blank range and saving from Mitchell at full stretch.

At the other end Pearl had a 35-yarder cleared off the line, but it was Kalli who finished the busier keeper, tipping over from Callcutt, then seeing another effort from the same player hit the post as Ware tried to increase their slender lead.

WINGATE & FINCHLEY: Kalli, Hanover (Levack 68), Piler, Rayner (Burke 63), Greenstreet, Schindler, Pearl, Portman (Kessack 53), Strevens, Fenton, Silver.

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