Improving Truro still searching for first points

ENTERPRISE NATIONAL LEAGUE Boreham Wood 2-1 Truro City

- Tom Howe

TRURO City suffered late heartache at Meadow Park as Matt Rush's injury-time winner saw fellow National league newcomers Boreham Wood prevail by the odd goal in three, writes Tom Howe.

Rush turned the ball home, despite a home player appearing to in an offside position before the former Sutton United man netted.

The defeat was tough on City, who saw Will Dean make history with the club's first-ever goal at this level.

Dean got his head to a Jake Taylor corner to restore parity just seven minutes after Tom White had put the home side ahead, in what was an entertaining first-half in the searing sun in Hertfordshire.

A mainstay of the National League South (NLS) title winning side last term, Dean was unlucky not to have already been on the scoresheet, having earlier seen another header cleared off the line.

Zac Bell, Christian Oxlade-Chamberlain, Tyler Harvey and Rekeil Pyke, who was denied a maiden Tinners goal by the woodwork, each came close to adding to the tally of a City side that conceded Rush’s winner deep into second-half injury time.

Having missed three matchday squads on the bounce, talismanic forward Harvey was restored to John Askey's starting XI following his 23-minute cameo in Saturday's narrow 1-0 defeat at the hands of visiting Southend United.

He donned the captain’s armband, taking over from Dean, with club skipper Connor Riley-Lowe once again named on the bench alongside Dom Johnson-Fisher and Lirak Hasani, who made way for Harvey and Taylor - one of six players to have featured across each of City’s six games in all competitions this term, alongside Oxlade-Chamberlain, Bell, Johnson-Fisher, Yassine En-Neyah and Ryan Law.