An another away trip took us travel to Stratton Bates to play Alresford Town.  
Alresford have a bad run of games and been close to getting their first win of the season and have lost most of their games to the odd goal. We were the only team to have put 5 goals past them this season. 
With our injury list growing it was a case of seeing who was fit enough to play today rather than picking a team and setting out a game plan. Dan, Liam and Westy all missing, Aidan with a bad cold, we had 11 fit players.
Birds was asked to play at right back, Brick came into right midfield, Ollie in at left back and Matty in goal. 
Alresford had problems of their own and only had 11 players so the scene was set for a close game. 
I asked the lads to knock the ball long for the first 10 mins to get Chris and Ross putting pressure on their back line and force them back to their own goal line. Of course the boys took no notice of me and got the ball down and tried to play it on the deck. Chris opened the scoring by robbing the Center back and calmly slotting the ball past the home teams keeper. 1-0 after 2mins 
Goal number two came after 15 mins with Chris getting his second. We were looking quite comfortably with out being to stretched. Half time Alresford 0 - 1 Netley
Alresford looked to put early pressure on us in the second half but we hit them with a counter attack that saw Chris chase a long ball to the corner and whip in a great cross for Jack to sprint into the box and side foot the ball for a 3-0 lead. 
Matty was largely in tested in our goal and didn't have to make a save with his hands but was called on a couple of time to come flying out of the box to clear long balls over the top of our defence. 
The game was final put to bed when we scored our fourth and Chris got his hat trick. 
Final Score Alresford 0-4 Netley Royals

Can't say it was a classic but we worked hard as a team. I was really pleased with the defence as both Keiran and Blade have formed a good partnership together and did all the basics well. Ollie and Birdy did a good job at full back as well.  The midfield held its own and stopped Alresford from playing. The front two worked hard and ran the opposing defenders ragged. And of course our keeper controlled his penalty area well. 
There will be some harder tests to come in the next few weeks but that's three wins in a row and two clean sheets.
Div 3 Results
AFC Hiltingbury 3-1 City Central
Bodley 3-0 Totton
Romsey Town 2-1 Warsash Wasps
Test wood 1-0 Pace Pumas

Div 3
                        P.  W D L F A GD PTS
Testwood Utd 15 11 1 3 47 25 22 34
Botley V         11 10 0 1 43 15 28 30
City Central.   15   8 2 5 40 43 -3 26
Romsey T.      13  8 1 4  46 26 20 25
Warsash W.    13  6 3 4  44 34 10 21
Hiltingbury.      13. 6 1 6 39 27 12 19
Netley Royals. 12 6 0 6  33 33 0 18
Totton              15 4 3 8 26 40 -14 15
Pace Pumas.   16 1 2 13 18 66 -48 5
Alresford T.      13 0 3 10 20 47 -27 3

Fixture update. The match v Botley on the 12th Feb has been postponed until the 25 th march.