Folkestone Invicta 1 Chatham Town 2 match report: Isthmian Premier leaders see 12-match winning league run end as Sam Sene-Richardson and Kian Moynes goals prove enough for Chatham

Chatham started the new year with a derby win at Isthmian Premier leaders Folkestone that ended the hosts’ 12-match winning league run on Saturday.

Goals from Sam Sene-Richardson and midfielder Kian Moynes put play-off occupants Chats in charge and, although Ben Mason claimed an injury-time goal for Invicta, it finished 2-1 at Cheriton Road as Kevin Hake’s men responded from back-to-back defeats.

Nevertheless, Folkestone remain some 11 points clear and 14 ahead of Chatham, who have a match in hand, despite a surprisingly below-par performance.

Jay Saunders’ home side had created the first chance on a bitterly cold day when goalkeeper Nathan Harvey made a fine seventh-minute save to tip over a free-kick by Jack Jebb.

At the other end, the ball kindly fell for Moynes but his 20-yard shot was comfortably charged down before forward Tope Fadahunsi hit the side-netting, having rounded goalkeeper Ted Collins, after another attempted long-range effort had been charged down.

But the visitors broke the deadlock as teenage forward Sene-Richardson netted his eighth goal of this season when a left-wing delivery was only half-cleared to him with 17 minutes played.

Chatham continued to be on the front foot and could have doubled the lead midway through the first half, only for 21-year-old Australian winger Matty MacArthur to balloon a free-kick over.

There was then an extended stoppage as away skipper Reece Butler caught Folkestone forward Ade Yusuff, who landed awkwardly, in an aerial challenge.

Both managers, Saunders and Hake, arrived on the field to check on the 31-year-old’s welfare after the delay before Yusuff - who earned a move to Dagenham & Redbridge while with Chatham earlier in his career - was taken off on a stretcher. He