BOSS Matty Holmes saw Wimborne fall to a late defeat at the hands of Southern League South leaders Weymouth, reports Jack Tanner.

Wimborne had overcome their Dorset rivals 2-0 in the League Cup during the week but, despite another strong performance, could not replicate that result.

Speaking to the Daily Echo, Holmes said: “I think the way we set up, we frustrated them a little bit, the tactics were really good – the boys really worked to the game plan.

"They were restricted to a few good chances in the first half, but we had a really good chance as well – it was quite even.

“The wind played a big factor – it was really windy down there. It was behind us in the second half and we played really well with it.

“But it’s the same old script – we give away a late goal. To go away and play a top of the table team and put in a performance like that, it’s really soul destroying that we couldn’t hold on and get at least a point.

“We thoroughly deserved a point at least from the game.”

Harry Baker struck six minutes from time to sink the Magpies and despite some late pressure on the Weymouth goal, Wimborne slumped to a sixth league defeat of the season.

Holmes added: “For their goal, they slipped the ball through after it had ricocheted off one of our players’ faces.

"We’re just having so much rotten luck and I know you create your own luck and you have to stop goals going in, but the way we’re losing is disheartening because the boys are doing so, so well at the moment. We are competing."

Louis Kellaway had Magpies’ best chance of an immediate response to going behind, but after beating Jordan Seabright in the Terras goal, fluffed his lines on an open net.

Holmes added: “We created a great chance – we caught them on the counter attack a couple of times towards the end, where they looked a little nervy. Louis did great – he did the hard bit by taking it around the keeper, but unfortunately his left foot just took the ball wide from the goal, from about three, four yards out.

“Then Luke Burbidge struck a decent shot, but the linesman adjudged it to be offside, so it was really frustrating.”

While Wimborne are yet to string together a run of positive results in the league, Holmes believes that a change in the Magpies’ fortunes is around the corner: “There are definitely positives to take. We said to the boys after the game, you have to be proud of what you have done. Our supporters appreciated how the boys played, but we are just getting rotten luck at the moment.

“We went to a team that are tipped for the title and were matching them ounce-for-ounce. It was disappointing overall not to get anything, but we can take a lot of heart from the performance.”

Magpies: Benfield, Lee, Penny, Davidson, Oldring, Francis (Kellaway, 85), Stokoe, L Holmes, T Holmes, Burbidge, Young. Unused subs: Maybury, Collins, Arnold, Owen.