Borough put Saturday’s FA Cup woes behind them with a splendid team performance at Aldershot. Against a team that had won its last eight matches, Harrow grew in confidence as the game went on and won with a 70th minute Richard Goddard goal.

Shots’ Moody lashed the ball over the Harrow bar after 14 minutes as the home side looked to build on their recent form. When Bull saved Goddard’s header, the home side broke upfield quickly and Taylor shot past the post. Holsgrove fired over the bar and Roddis glanced a header across the goal, but late in the half Harrow might have gone in front, when a nice one-two between Pat Gavin and Robert Charles freed Daniel Dyer to run into the box and shoot past the near post.

Early in the second half, Holsgrove had a shot deflected wide, and a header saved by Keita Karamoko, but with Gavin, Dean Marney and debutant Jimmy Aggrey coping comfortably with those few attacks that were getting past the harrying Wayne Walters and Ross Fitzsimon in midfield, Harrow began to look threatening. Bull made a good save from a John Lawford free-kick, and when Fitzsimon’s through-ball sent Goddard through on goal, he shot just wide. Lawford then hit a 30-yard free-kick past the post.

A strong Goddard header forced Ready into giving away a 70th minute corner. Goddard met Lawford’s kick with a tame shot, but Aggrey caused a distraction just in front of the goal-line, waving his foot over the ball, and the ball trickled in past Bull and a defender.

Aldershot were stung into some attacking, but the Harrow defence stood firm and Karamoko had relatively little to do. Dyer and Clemente Lopez worked very hard on the flanks, but generally the home side were trying to attack through the middle and failing to breach the Harrow central defence. In fact, the visitors now posed more of a threat. Lawford shot over when set up by a Robert Charles header, and Charles then forced a save from Bull with a shot from the edge of the area.

Karamoko was forced to make a fine save from Gell, but into injury time Harrow should have doubled their lead when the Goddard-Lawford combination set up substitute Godfrey Torto, six yards out in the centre of goal, but his shot allowed Bull to dive to his left and save.

Borough now need to take their good away league form onto the field at Earlsmead, and have an early opportunity this Saturday when Ford United are the visitors.

  1 - Nikki Bull
  2 - Dean Hooper
  3 - Anthony Charles
   (sub John Nutter 45)
  4 - Karl Ready
  5 - Jason Cousins
  6 - Dominic Stirling
  7 - Nick Roddis  
  8 - Jamie Taylor
  9 - Paul Moody
   (sub Adam Parker 68)
10 - Roscoe D'Sane
11 - Lee Holsgrove
   (sub Richard Gell 68)