An excellent team performance across the 90 minutes saw Weston defeat visitors Slough Town 2-0 under The Optima lights, thanks to goals from Luke Coulson and Dylan Morgan.

In two changes from Saturday’s win over Hornchurch, Reuben Reid and Nick McCootie both came into the starting XI, with Brandon Bak and Jordan Bastin both dropping to the substitutes’ bench.

The Seagulls started quickly, with Coulson & Morgan both causing havoc down the flanks against Slough’s full-backs. A Sam Avery knock-down from Coulson’s corner resulted in the visitors just about managing to scramble clear, before Reid just failed to connect with a Coulson pull-back inside the area. Dylan Kadji then fired wide from 25 yards when being able to receive the ball on the half-turn in space.

Henry Ochieng drove over from 25 yards with Slough’s first attempt, before James Dodd looked to cap off a positive move for Weston by driving narrowly over from the edge of the area. Louis Beeden then had a volley from a Slough free-kick blocked bravely by a Weston body down the other end.

Reid then saw the ball trickle narrowly wide following Beeden’s header onto his body six yards out following Ollie Chamberlain’s clipped cross, Luke Coulson had a low attempt from 30 yards pushed away by Charlie Horlock and then McCootie beat his man down the left to get into the area but Horlock was off his line quickly to deny the angle and block the shot from close-range.

Dylan Kadji fired a shot over from 25 yards following a short corner, before Reid headed over from six yards following Coulson’s delivery into the area on the counter-attack. Ochieng had the half’s final attempt, curling wide from 25 yards.

Half-Time: Weston-super-Mare AFC 0 – 0 Slough Town

The second half started at the same frantic pace for the hosts, early penalty shouts for handball against a Reid cross and for an off-the-ball incident involving Morgan as well as Avery having a goal disallowed for offside from Coulson’s free-kick when the No.6 headed over Horlock. Coulson then dragged a low shot into Horlock’s arms from 25 yards.

The opening goal was to come for Weston, and it came through a bit of magic from Coulson out on the left. Playing a one-two with Kadji, the winger swung a cross in looking for McCootie but the ball bounced inside the far post without a touch for the No.11 to claim his fifth goal of the league season already.

McCootie almost got in behind to bag a second for the Seagulls, but his toe-poke was smothered by Horlock following a bouncing Will Buse clearance. Avery blocked a powerful John Ufuah drive inside the area, before Reid saw a shot blocked from 18 yards and Coulson had an attempt deflected over from a similar distance.

Horlock was called into action again to push away an Emlyn Lewis header from a Coulson corner, with McCootie firing over from inside the area and Morgan having a shot deflected into the keeper’s arms on the counter.

Oliver Spicer curled wide for the visitors from 25 yards after entering the fray as a substitute, before a Slough player headed wide from Gary Abisogun’s cross.

The Seagulls were to put daylight between themselves and the visitors late on though when a Scott Davies pass was picked off by Kadji in midfield and with Slough having committed numbers forward, the No.4 slipped through Morgan to race through on goal from halfway and calmly slot past Horlock inside the area for his second goal in two games.

Full-Time: Weston-super-Mare AFC 2 – 0 Slough Town (Coulson 58, Morgan 89)

Weston XI: Buse, Kadji, Pope, Avery, Dodd, Reid (Bak 90+5), Morgan (Bastin 90+4), Coulson, E Lewis (C), Chamberlain, McCootie (Jagger Cane 79).

Unused substitutes: Thomas, Absalom.

Attendance: 883.

MOTM: Luke Coulson. An excellent display from the No.11 wide on the flanks, his speed, trickery and intelligence constantly proving a thorn in Slough’s side for the 90 minutes.