Williamson makes it a winning hat-trick

4:50pm Saturday 30th August 2008

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Chesterfield 0, Wanderers 1.

WYCOMBE Wanderers made it three straight wins on the bounce as they won 1-0 at Chesterfield this afternoon.

Mike Williamson's first half header did the trick as Peter Taylor's side stretched their unbeaten start to the season to four games.

The decisive goal came after just four minutes when Chesterfield left Williamson totally unmarked to head Tommy Doherty's free kick into the back of the net via the underside of the bar.

The Chairboys hardly threatened from set pieces last season but it has been an area manager Peter Taylor has been working on in training and how it paid off.

Last season only one defender scored for Wycombe now it is two in as many games, with Williamson's effort following Craig Woodman's winner against Lincoln City last week.

And it might have been three. Leon Johnson went close with a header from another inswinging Woodman corner soon after.

Chesterfield were there for the taking. Spireites right back Aaron Downes was having a torrid time while on the other flank Gavin Grant had the measure of his marker.

But Wycombe seemed happy enough to just sit on their lead rather than going for the kill.

And all the time Chesterfield had ex-Wanderer Darren Currie on the pitch they were a danger.

Just minutes after Wycombe had opened the scoring the Spireites box-of-trick almost engineered an equaliser with a wonderful low centre which fortunately for Wycombe Lloyd Kerry met with a complete air-kick.

Currie was at the centre of everything Chesterfield did but even home spectators were embarrassed by his blatant dive on the edge of the box which fooled the referee but earned him a stiff rebuke from Tommy Doherty and his former Barnet team-mate McGleish.

Wycombe's policy of sitting on what they had got might have backfired on the stroke of half time when Jamie Ward whistled in a low shot which Blues keeper Scott Shearer did well to get down to and fingertip around his post.

The hosts threatened again at the start of the second half with Currie outfoxing David McCracken and John Mousinho before standing up a far post cross which Jamie Lowry headed wide.

The pair combined again with Lowry this time planting his header into Shearer's arms.

Currie was enjoying himself sending Mousinho one way and then the other before sending over an inch-perfect cross which Kevin Austin somehow headed wide of the gaping goal.

Wycombe were increasingly being forced to play on the break and Grant provided a useful outlet with his willingness to run at Alan Goodall.

McGleish was looking increasingly frustrated as he became isolated up front and he was replaced by Magno Vieira with on-loan Reading frontman Simon Church still running up and down the touchline waiting for his chance to come on.

It looked like it might be a dream introduction for Vieira as he rose to meet Zebroski's cross only for a defender to rise that little bit higher and nick the ball away.

The change helped Wanderers though and they spent more time in their opponents' half of the field as Chesterfield appeared to have blown themselves out.

And Vieira thought he had given Blues the lead when he touched in Grant's right wing cross but the linesman ruled that Grant had taken the ball out of play when he skated around his full back.

Grant had been a thorn in Chesterfield's side before he was withdrawn to give Church his chance.

Chesterfield almost snatched an equaliser with Ward's acrobatic volley spinning wide before Currie sent a cross shot just beyond the far post but Wanderers held on as they lay down an early marker for their promotion challenge.