Poole Town 5-5 Tiverton Town – Match Report

Poole Town fought back to earn a point against bottom-placed Tiverton Town in ‘embarrassing’ 5-5 draw at Tatnam on Tuesday night.

Josh Staunton and Selim Saied returned to the starting eleven following Saturday’s 1-0 win over Basingstoke Town.

The match got underway on a chilly evening, and it was the visitors who started fast and opened the scoring within two minutes as the Dolphins were caught out at the back and Tor Swann calmy gave Tiverton the lead.

Poole immediately responded as Selim Saied was brought down inside the area and Gwengwe stepped up and converted from the spot.

Tiverton re-took the lead in the 7^th minute after a mistake from Adam Parkes at the back led to Swann passing it into an empty net for his second of the match.

A frantic start to the night, but it didn’t stop there as Tiverton made it three goals to the good as Aiden Horne scored on the 15^th minute to make it 3-1.

The drama continued as Poole looked to fight back through Charlie Davis, his lobbed effort caught the keeper unaware and narrowly crept over the line for the fifth goal on the 19^th minute.

On the 24^th minute, Gwengwe was brought down by the goalkeeper inside the area and once again and he converted from the spot to draw it back to level terms.

Certainly wasn’t a quiet evening under the lights at Tatnam with six goals within 25 minutes, but the goal show hadn’t finished quite yet!

Poole finally took the lead in this one as a Ryan Campbell rocket flew into the roof of the net on the 35^thminute to make it 4-3 to the Dolphins.

It looked as if Poole were now in a commanding position and looking for more to put the game to bed, however, just before the break it was Tiverton who struck again after a scramble in the box was tapped home by Horne again.

Just when everyone thought the eight first half goals were enough, Tiverton managed to find the back of the net for a fifth with the last kick of the half and went into the break leading the game by five goals to four.

Poole came out for the second half the much livelier and immediately looked like finding an equaliser.

It took until the 66^th minute for the Dolphins to find that decisive fifth goal after substitute McCormick found Gwengwe in the centre who tapped it home to make it 5-5.

As the game progressed, despite Poole putting the pressure on in search of a winner, it seemed too little too late as Tiverton remained resolute at the back and held on to a point with the full time whistle being blown and it ending 5-5 at Tatnam.

Joint-manager Joe Lea labelled the result as “embarrassing” in the post match interview with Connor Hannon and said he “expected more” from a select few of his players on the night.

Next up for Poole is a long trip to Berkhamsted on Saturday afternoon as the Dolphins will look to return to winning ways.