TWO goals in two minutes saw Leatherhead leave Three Bridges with all three points on Saturday.
The home team took the lead through Williams Peauroux on his third Bridges' debut, but Leatherhead equalised two minutes later when Mark Simmons' free-kick flew over the Bridges' wall.
The game looked a comfortable stalemate at 1-1 until the 74th minute when Tom Bradbrook directed the ball across the face of goal and into the bottom left corner.
Straight from kick-off, substitute Sam Blackman ran at the Bridges' goal and thumped the ball past Alan Mansfield, ending the contest less than two minutes after the Tanners took the lead for the first time.
After going 3-1 up, Richard Brady's team dominated the remainder of the Ryman League Division One South game, and could have add more goals had it not been for Mansfield.
And Brady believes the three points were well deserved.
"It wasn't the best preparation we have had for a game but there are no easy games in this league and we knew it was going to be a battle," he said. "It is a squad game there days and I think when he came on Sam Blackman charged the player down and got his goal and if I'm honest I think we were the better team."
But after another loss Bridges coach Scott Howe was a frustrated man.
"I think it should have finished 1-1," Howe lamented. "I sound like a broken record but we are gifting side's goals rather them creating goals. The level of football we are playing at now, we are getting punished for every mistake.
"We proved the other week when we played County League sides
in the cup that we are better than that level. But maybe we are somewhere in
the middle. I can't fault our work-rate, we worked so hard. And Abu [Touray],
to single him out, was unbelievable. The energy that boy has, tireless."
For the full report and reaction see Thursday's Leatherhead Advertiser.