Last weekend, Welling saw off second to bottom FC Halifax Town. This Saturday they visited basement club Kidderminster Harriers and again claimed the three points.
Victory at Kidderminster Harriers lifted Welling United to fifteenth in the Vanarama National League.
Having won their previous three games, it was an unusual experience for Welling to go to an away game as favourites. However, they knew that any complacency would be punished so they had to be on top of their game.
New loan signing, Sandro Sedemo, was given a league debut with Reece Harris and Xavier Vidal on the bench.
Kidderminster’s defender Kevin Toner was cautioned early on for an untidy foul as Welling tried to assert themselves on the game.
Ricky Wellard met a Ben Jefford header back with a point blank effort that was kept out at the second attempt by Harriers’ goalkeeper Alex Palmer.
Then Sedemo had an opportunity but shot wide after George Porter had sent over a great cross-field pass.
At the other end, the Welling back four were so dominant that Tom King had an untroubled first half.
Manager Loui Fazakerley made a change at the break, bringing on Harris for Semedo citing the reason “He’s still got to learn our system. He’s still got to learn our shape and exactly what we want from him.”
Three minutes after the break, Welling went ahead. Harry Lee was brought down on the edge of the area and Porter’s low hard free kick was too hot for Palmer to handle.
If that wasn’t tough enough for Kidderminster, the dismissal of Jordan Tunnicliffe for bringing down Porter when clean through made it a huge mountain to climb.
King blocked a low shot from Luke Maxwell at the near post but was rarely troubled otherwise.
Shots by Sam Corne, substitute Xavier Vidal, Wellard and Harris were either blocked or off target as Welling failed to drive home their numerical advantage and they might have been made to pay late on.
Centre half Kelvin Langmead, on a season long loan from Ebbsfleet United, was pushed forward and had two great opportunities but showed a defender’s finishing prowess when heading both over the bar.
In the dying seconds, Porter was sent away once more but his low drive was saved superbly by Palmer.
Afterwards, Fazakerley suggested that he was not surprised with the four consecutive wins “We weren’t far away from winning games when we were losing them.”
He was happy with the win despite the team not having played as fluently as he would have liked, especially in the first half. “The performance wasn’t the most important thing. It was the result. It was the attitude that we took into the game. We couldn’t afford to be complacent.”
There is no time for Welling to sit back on their laurels as they are back in action again on Tuesday when entertaining Bromley in what promises to be an enthralling battle at Park View Road.
Kidderminster: Palmer, Hodgkiss, Toner, Maxwell, Langmead, Tunnicliffe, Jones (Rowe-Turner 58), Clarke (Francis-Angol 71), Campbell (Green 66), Styche, Verma.
Unused substitutes: Snedka, Dinsley.
Welling United: King, Nortey, Jefford, Lee, Chambers, Lokko, Semedo (Harris 46), Corne, Kabba (Vidal, 64), Porter, Wellard.
Unused substitutes: McEntegart, Osborne, Williams.
Referee: Karl Evans
Assistants: Michael Taylor and Kieran Bailey
4th Official: Lee Forrester
Welling star man: George Porter
Attendance: 1,438
Pictures supplied by Dave Budden.