Exmouth 1-0 Okehampton Argyle

Exmouth holding a healthy position third from top of the league really struggled to come to terms with a very dogged performance by Argyle and resorted to belting the ball up field at every opportunity, it was Argyle played the better football throughout the entire game but unfortunately came away with nothing to show for their efforts.
Exmouth scored the only goal of the afternoon when a lofted ball was played over the centre of the Argyle defence and their striker got goal side to take a very clean volley finishing excellently by finding the corner of the Argyle net, Argyle responded well and played some attractive football with Steve Williams pace causing them problems all afternoon, with a little better finishing Argyle might have been level on 25 minutes when Williams blasted the ball wide.
Michael Vernon tested the Exmouth keeper with a powerful strike from fully 35 yards the keeper could only parry the ball and the follow up once again went wide of the target, Robbie Miller also went close on couple of occasions and Exmouth were fortunate to be in the lead at the interval.
Argyle came out in the second half and piled the pressure on Exmouth forcing corners and free-kicks in the early exchanges, a well worked set piece flashed past the upright when Stuart Cann played the ball to Steve Kinsey and took the return pass.
Football can be a cruel game and this was a classic example of the best team loosing on the day, but Argyle should take a lot of credit from the game.