Faversham Town’s Southern Counties East Premier Division title bid on track as they host Kent United in Kent Senior Trophy

There’s a brief break from league matters for Faversham - whose title charge looks on track.

Sammy Moore’s Lilywhites reached the quarter-season mark in their Southern Counties East Premier Division campaign with a 5-2 home win against Hollands & Blair last weekend before they won 2-1 at Bearsted on Tuesday.

Faversham haven’t quite had everything their own way and were dealt early-season setbacks with defeats at Corinthian and Lydd.

Apart from those matches, though, they’re yet to drop a league point and top the table ahead of this Saturday’s Kent Senior Trophy tie at home to Kent County League Kent United (1pm).

Manager Moore said: “It was our first double on Tuesday.

“We’re delighted to get six points against them because I think they’ve just given us our hardest game all season, to be honest.

“There was great support from the fans. They travelled in their numbers. I’m glad we could send them home happy.

“We have got a break from the league now. I said before the game, it’s a bit like a quarter of the season is done. We have an unbelievable return of 27 points after 11 games.

“But we’ll keep grounded, keep working hard and we look forward to a little break from the league now.”

Striker Warren Mfula headed Faversham in front against Bearsted before midfielder Billy Bennett doubled their tally, only for Ollie Freeman to set up a tense finale.

Moore reflected: “It’s a massive win. I was delighted with the boys.

“They had to show the other side of their game. Stuff went against us, we had to play with 10 men for 10 minutes with a sin-bin, and we had to dig in at the end.

“But I thought, at times, we played some great stuff and created some good chances.

“We just lacked that ball in the final third to really kill them off.