Bath City (3) 4 Chesham United (2) 2 – Saturday 11 April 2026 – Enterprise National League South – Cannon Clarke Stadium @ Twerton Park

Bath City remain on the brink of relegation despite a riveting success over play-off chasing Chesham United.

Donovan Wilson (2), an own goal and Scott Wilson’s 50th league goal for the club ended the visitors’ five game winning streak, and made it back-to-back home successes for Scott Bartlett’s men.

An action-packed contest ended 10 a-side as Alfie Young and Owen Windsor were both dismissed in the second half.

Despite the positive result and performance, news of Farnborough’s win at Dover Athletic means City require a highly unlikely sequence of events to avoid the drop.

The Romans opened the scoring on 41 seconds, their third quickest goal in National League South history.

Joe Raynes played it inside to Donovan Wilson, who turned on the edge of the box and caught out Ben Goode with a low drive just inside his left post for his first City goal of his second spell.

The lead was doubled on 13 minutes.

Raynes again provided an assist, albeit in fortunate circumstances. His intended through ball for Scott Wilson just missed him but Callum Adebiyi applied the finishing touch, perfectly helping the ball into the bottom corner of his own goal with the outside of his boot.

It was 3-0 before the midway point of the half, the quickest City had raced into such a lead since a 4-2 success over Gateshead in April 2012 in Conference Premier.

Tidy passing from Raynes, Alex Fisher and Jaiden Putman concluded with Scott Wilson cleverly flicking it to cousin Donovan.

Having held off Connor Stevens, Wilson shot in an instant across Goode from 12 yards to leave the visitors shellshocked.

They shrugged off the almost unthinkable early deficit to pull one back on 33 minutes.

Like City’s third it was a well-worked goal, with a passage of tidy passing ending with Stevens teeing up Jayden Bennetts in the penalty area.

His rapid shot with his back to goal glanced off Ollie Tomlinson to fly past Harvey Wiles-Richards, but Bennetts’ quick movement was to his cost as it was his final kick, a hamstring injury forcing the in-form attacker to be replaced by Samson Esan.

Not that it bothered Chesham. Just 48 seconds after the substitution, they netted again.

Gio Rasulo threaded the ball wide to Alfie Williams, who just kept it in on the stretch.

His ball across saw Wiles-Richards only able to glove it to Kai Yearn, who side-footed home from two yards.

There were no further goals to a breathless half and the action didn’t let off in the second.

Donovan Wilson was inches away from a hat-trick as he struck the base of the post but he was involved in a move which eventually led to City’s fourth.

His ball down the line freed Fisher, who dinked it back across towards Scott Wilson.

Young beat him to it and inadvertently handled back to his keeper, with referee Jack Willmore deeming the action to be deliberate, sending off the Chesham centre-back for the second time this calendar year, Young’s third red in three months.

After a lengthy delay, Scott Wilson kept a cool head and slammed his penalty into the bottom left corner to become the first Bath City player to score 50 league goals since Scott Partridge in 2006.

It was 10v10 on 73 minutes. Windsor had initially been deliberately tripped by Connor Roberts, and his retaliation was spotted by the officials as he became the eighth player sent off for City this season, the highest since 2003/04.

Putman hobbled off just after to be replaced by Ruebin Sheppard, while fellow substitute Jordan Alves’ first involvement wasn’t a positive one.

After initial good defending, his loose touch forced Wiles-Richards to deliberately collect a back-pass.

The indirect free-kick from Alex Babos was easily dealt with in one of many openings in a frantic final 15 minutes.

Goode stood firm to deny Josh Laqeretabua at his near post and also thwarted Alves from the resulting corner after the winger shot from a tight angle with options in the middle.

Williams wastefully blazed over for the Generals from Yearn’s ball in, and the wing-back also headed Esan’s free-kick off target when he should have tested Wiles-Richards.

Esan struck into the side-netting in the visitors’ final chance during seven minutes of added time as City’s determination kept their two-goal lead intact, keeping their extremely remote chances of survival alive for another few days.

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