ANDOVER Town went down to their third home defeat in a fortnight on Tuesday as they lost to Blackfield and Langley in a twice postponed Wessex League Premier Division match.

Manager Neil Benson made four changes from the side that lost to Lymington on Saturday with goalkeeper Mark Childs coming in for Michael Horne and Cameron Hough, Claudio Herbert and Ike Robertson in with Horne, Oli Yates, Bradley Benson, Tommy Wright and Michael Dixon on the bench.

The visitors took an eight minute lead through Cann and two minutes later found themselves two down when Munday doubled their score.

The match looked to be over before it had hardly begun but Andover began to find some rhythm and Robertson and Herbert went close, the youngster’s shot well saved by Nicholson.

The second half saw Andover showing their intent with a series of positive attacks and Hough found Lewis Benson whose cross was just out of reach of Robertson.

On the hour Benson set on Dixon but disaster struck again for them as a mix up in their defence gave Munday the opportunity to double his tally and seemed to put the match out of Andover’s reach.

This however, seemed to spur Town on and Dixon and Hough linked with Alex Dockree who brought out a fine save by Nicholson.

Dixon was making his presence felt and his header was just wide then Dockree and Herbert both went close before from another Town corner, a great finish by Joe Woodward gave Andover a glimmer of light.

Moments later another corner had the Blackfield defence were in turmoil and captain Matt Scott found the finish to reduce deficit but unfortunately time had run out for Andover and it left the home side rueing their early two-goal set back.