Guernsey FC beat Seaford for fifth successive win
Fin Du Port celebrated his 21st birthday with a goal and an assist
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Guernsey FC won for the fifth successive game as they beat Seaford Town 5-3 in the Southern Combination Premier Division.
Ross Allen went close for the islanders after a quarter of an hour, but it was the visitors who took the lead 13 minutes later when Josh Bradley's impressive long-range effort beat Josh Addison.
Fin Du Port, celebrating his 21st birthday, levelled five minutes from half-time with a strike from the edge of the box.
Du Port turned provider a minute after the restart as the in-form Sam Murray converted his cross to make it 2-1.
Murray had a second goal ruled out for offside soon after, but did get his second with a 63rd-minute lob.
Josh Wright's goal made it 3-2 three minutes later as he got on the end of a long ball before Ben Solway sealed the three points as he headed home Allen's cross to make it 4-2 with 12 minutes to go.
Murray completed his hat-trick in stoppage time as he fired home an Allen cross to take his tally to 10 goals in the last five games before Seaford capitalised on a late error to make it 5-3.
The win consolidated Guernsey's place in the top five going into Christmas with Tony Vance's side next in action on 27 December when they travel to Forest Row.
"We were actually playing really well and I thought we were fairly dominant, we just couldn't score and then their guy hit a worldie and you think is this going to be one of those days?" Guernsey boss Vance told BBC Radio Guernsey.
"But we regrouped and Dupes got a tremendous equaliser to be fair, and that sort of settled us a little bit because we were knocking on the door, we just couldn't score and took a good goal from him.
"At half time it was just a question of understanding where we should be playing, how our formation was dictating their formation and giving us the space that we required and we didn't do that enough, so we spoke about that at half time and lo and behold first goal second half was was fantastic, it was exactly that and more.
"That was exactly the areas we needed to exploit and did it very well."