Enfield Town (1) 1 Bath City (1) 1 – Saturday 28 February 2026 – Enterprise National League South – Dave Bryant Stadium
Match Report by Mark Stillman.
Alex Fisher’s first away league goal for the club saw City pick up a point at fellow strugglers Enfield Town.
The striker headed Joe Raynes’ long throw home just eight minutes after Nino Adom-Malaki netted his first in Town colours.
Joe Wright denied Fisher a second after the break as City searched for a priceless three points.
However they couldn’t find another way through, keeping them in the bottom four on a weekend where none of the bottom five lost.
Fisher was recalled to the starting XI alongside fit-again Donovan Wilson and Jordan Alves, with Matt Bowman, Luke Skinner and Owen Windsor dropping to the bench.
With Tuesday’s 0-0 with Weston producing no shots on target, the Romans recorded one inside sixty seconds at the Dave Bryant Stadium when Alves’ fierce free-kick from 30 yards was tipped over by Wright.
It would have been the perfect start against a side that suffered a club record 8-0 loss at Maidstone United four days previous.
The Towners regrouped and looked more organised than the midweek mauling in Kent, aided by loan signing Paul Appiah at centre-back.
Lamar Reynolds got the other side of Alves and crossed to the back post for Sam Youngs, who got his body shape wrong and headed wastefully wide from close range.
Fisher and Mickey Parcell exchanged efforts off target from outside the box and Alves’ whipped free-kick from near the corner quadrant forced Wright to fist away at his near post with Luke Russe’s effort on the follow-up backheeled wide by Donovan Wilson.
The hosts began to grow in confidence and took a 33rd minute lead to rock the Romans.
Hayden Bullas played the ball across to Adom-Malaki some 30 yards out, and he took a touch before rifling low into the bottom left corner out of Charlie Binns’ reach.
It was some strike from the man who turned 22 on the day of the Maidstone humiliation, ending his near two-year goal drought.
They were hungry for more. Ollie Knight’s cross from the left was deflected into the air by Kieran Parselle, but Youngs, one shy of 100 goals for the club, misjudged the flight of the ball and wastefully headed wide.
Corie Andrews dragged off target after Youngs robbed the unsuspecting Jordan Tillson in a purple patch for Gavin MacPherson’s men.
Their failure to take either opening came back to bite them as they looked vulnerable defending long throws from Raynes.
With one allowed to bounce in the box, Wilson’s shot on the turn was blocked by the sliding Parcell, leading to another throw on the City left.
Raynes hurled in again, this time Fisher leapt highest at the near post to glance in his first league goal since August.
The momentum shifted back into the visitors’ favour for the remainder of the half with Town grateful for the break.
They clearly didn’t use the team talk to revise plans for defending long throws. Another Raynes missile found the head of Fisher in a near identical move to the goal, this time Wright reacted superbly to fingertip over.
Substitute Bowman also couldn’t get the better of Wright from a Raynes throw as Town struggled to make first contact from the full-back’s deliveries.
City coped with five successive corners from the home side, who were forced to throw bodies in the way of a set-piece at the other end when Alves’ corner saw a mass scramble eventually dealt with after Windsor’s strike was blocked on the line by Adom-Malaki.
It proved the closest to a winner as the draw, a third straight 1-1 with Enfield Town, ended Darren Way’s team sequence of four straight away defeats.
It’s a result which probably suited them slightly more than Town.
Att: 887
City’s Line-Up: Binns, Raynes, Greenslade, Batten, Parselle, Alves, Fisher (Skinner 90), Tillson, Russe (Bowman 63), Putman (Beardmore 90), D Wilson (Windsor 65). Subs not used: Wiles-Richards, Sheppard, Alexander-Walker.
Scorers: City – Fisher (41); Enfield – Adom-Malaki (32)
City Bookings: Putman (47)
Officials: R Claussen, P Wilson, T Burns, T Lathey (4th)
