Wigston FC 2–3 Edgbaston FC: a flicker of defiance

Wigston sit 15th with 24 points, while Edgbaston, sixth on 38, are in red-hot form. Their earlier meeting ended 3-1. The warning signs were there, but Wigston have never been a club to read the fine print.

Anacleto Bovo's opener in the 28th minute, a neat finish from Joachim Sieverding's pass, briefly suggested the home side had borrowed a page from a better book. It was a spark in a season that has lacked one. But the stroke of half-time is a cruel master. Casimiro Colmenar, who has a habit of scoring late, scored just before the interval instead, turning Linus Edgcumbe's service into a tidy finish. The 1-1 scoreline swung momentum entirely: Wigston walked off looking as if they had lost the lead rather than retained parity.

The second half belonged to Edgbaston's engine room. There was no smoke, no drama, just the quiet efficiency of a side that knows exactly what it is doing. Kanu Assoumou's 76th-minute strike was ruthless, and three minutes later Alfonsito Borda-Andino rose to meet Mickaël Cazenave's cross, the header that put the game to bed. At 1-3 the contest was effectively over, a fact the home support recognised with resigned applause.

Bovo added a second in the 90th minute, finishing Theodore Penn's pass to make it 2-3. It was a late, harmless flicker: a testament to the man's persistence rather than any siege.

The league grants no one a week to grieve. With the next matchday arriving tomorrow, Wigston must find a cure for their ills before the long afternoon becomes a permanent dusk, while Edgbaston, in their quiet fidelity to form, will simply ask for more of the same.