LONDON, CMC—Bermudian striker Nahki Wells scored his fifth aim of the season however simply his second of the yr as Bristol Metropolis beat 10-man Plymouth Argyle 1-0 on Easter Monday to proceed their topsy-turvy type within the English Championship.
The 33-year-old, a half-time substitute, headed the guests in entrance at House Park within the 57th minute. They held onto the lead, helped by Alfie Devine’s sending off for a second yellow within the 78th.
The win – Bristol Metropolis’s second on the bounce and third of their final 5 outings – leaves them twelfth on 53 factors and 11 off the playoff spots.
Plymouth, in the meantime, failed to attain for a fifth straight residence sport and is one level above the drop zone with 41 factors.
The hosts began strongly and dominated the primary half-hour with out actually testing goalkeeper Max O’Leary, and the sport reached the break scoreless.
Wells’ intervention modified the complexion of the competition; nevertheless, the veteran was one in all three adjustments, together with Mark Sykes and Joe Williams.
The aim arrived approaching the hour mark when goalkeeper Michael Cooper saved from Anis Mehmeti and denied the follow-up effort by Sykes, just for Wells to move residence the third try.
“He’s a high professional, Nahki – I can’t communicate extremely sufficient of him,” stated the Bristol Metropolis supervisor.
“He’d most likely need to play greater than he has executed, nevertheless it was a wonderful efficiency, stepping on and delivering when required. He got here on and had an actual optimistic influence.”
Within the seventieth, O’Leary denied Morgan Whittaker, and Wells pressured a save out of Cooper earlier than Devine was given marching orders for a foul on George Tanner.
Within the Nationwide League, Grenada worldwide Kairo Mitchell was handed a straight purple within the thirty seventh minute for a nasty problem on Tom Parkes. Nevertheless, Rochdale nonetheless managed a share of the factors at residence at Spotland Stadium when Devante Rodney struck a dramatic Ninety fifth-minute equalizer to cancel out Joe Gray’s Sixty fifth-minute opener for Hartlepool United.
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