Whitman-Brown winner sees Worksop Town progress to FA Trophy third round
Worksop Town were forced to come from behind twice to beat Chorley FC 3-2 at Victory Park on Saturday in the FA Trophy.
Delighted manager Craig Parry said: “I am really pleased with the performance, there were some standout performances in there today.
“I thought Vaughan (Redford), Aaron (Martin) up top and Deegan (Atherton) at right back were all magnificent for us.”
On matchwinner Chae Whitman-Brown’s late heroics, Parry was complimentary of his and fellow substitute Lewis Whitham’s cameos off the bench.
“They could have both been disappointed with being left out, but they came off the bench with 30 minutes to go and one has got the assist and the other has got the winner,” he said.
“I thought both of them were magnificent, they did not sulk, came on and proved a point to me, I can’t ask for anymore than that.”
Parry was full of praise for Whitman-Brown’s attitude since joining the Tigers in the summer, saying: “I’m glad for Chae to get the goal there because he has been banging on the door and he has lots of potential.
“He is a good lad and is going to have a bright future ahead of him, he took his goal really well.”
Joe Leesley registered the first chance of the game for Parry’s side when he curled towards the bottom right corner, only being denied by a smart fingertip save from Matt Urwin to turn his effort around the post.
But Worksop found themselves behind after half an hour when Milan Lalkovic collected the ball off the left flank, cut inside and drilled a shot into the top right corner past the helpless Tommy Taylor.
The Tigers responded excellently to the setback.
Aleks Starcenko pressed well to force himself into a crossing position, before firing a low ball across the six yard box which was diverted into his own goal by Chorley defender Harvey Smith.
Ten minutes after the interval, the hosts were awarded a penalty when Atherton was adjudged to have hauled Tom Carr down in the box as he raced in on goal.
Carr saw his spot kick crash off the post, however Lalkovic was on hand once again to rifle the rebound into the roof of the net.
The game then took another twist as Luke Waterfall equalised for Worksop with an astute rebounded finish at the back post after he saw his initial header from a corner rattle the post.
The substitutes then combined to devastating effect to get the Tigers in front for the first time in the contest.
Redford spearheaded a passing move that found its way out to Whitham, whose low cross was finished smartly into the bottom left corner by Whitman-Brown as he arrived into the box with the late winner sending the travelling faithful behind the goal into raptures.