THREE goals in seven minutes late in the second half turned the game on its head as Hythe beat Redhill 4-1, writes Stuart Ballard.
Javlon Campbell put Redhill in front inside 20 minutes in what was an otherwise quiet first half of the Ryman League Division One South encounter.
In the second period, Jordan Wells first scored with his head and minutes later, expertly lobbed the goalkeeper to give Hythe the lead, before Bradley Duke turned a Dave Pilcher cross into his own net and Ashley Miller scored late on to complete the comeback.
The home side started the stronger of the two and could have been in front inside five minutes when Miller showed good feet to run into the box but Jordan Andersen matched his run to block.
Laurence Harvey was forced off after 15 minutes with a suspected broken nose after going up for a header and that stunted Hythe's good start until Dave Cook came on in midfield.
The away side slowly got back into the game and had their best chance when Rob Hill played a defence-splitting pass to Bingham on the left, whose cross found Leyton Regan in space but could not direct his header goalwards.
Cannons manager Tim Dixon had used his second substitution by the half-hour mark when Jamie Collado went off holding his groin with Pilcher coming on, pushing Dave Cook back in to the centre-back position.
Not a minute had passed and Redhill had taken the lead when a pass from Hill ricocheted through to Campbell in the box, who opened his body well to finish in the bottom left corner.
That was the first real shot on goal for either goalkeeper to deal with. Redhill coped well with any attacking threat Hythe were throwing at them and the half petered out with the Lobsters leading 1-0 at the break.
Neither side came out of the blocks flying in the second half but Hythe were slowly finding their feet and pressing Redhill's backline.
They were running out of ideas to get the equaliser but with 18 minutes left they found their way back in the game in a capitulation for Redhill.
Jack Sullivan hit a brilliant free-kick from the halfway line to find Wells in the box, who directed the header home.
A quick counter attack saw Miller turn and play a lofted pass through to Wells, who sent the ball over Hunter to give the Cannons the lead.
Hythe were not finished though as Pilcher latched onto a loose ball on the right and drove his cross low and Bradley Duke, failing to sort himself out, deflected it in.
Redhill were rattled and Miller added another to wrap it up.
