WEYMOUTH 1 MOOR GREEN 2 WEYMOUTH kept up the pressure on Crawley Town at the top of the Dr Martens Premier with a narrow 2-1 success over Moor Green last night.

Despite a below-par performance, second half goals from Stephen Tully and Paul Buckle were enough to take all three points and move the Terras back to within striking distance of the leaders.

Steve Claridge named an unchanged team to the side that lost to Crawley at the weekend and the efforts of Saturday seemed to be showing in the opening exchanges.

Moors striker Jae Martin was allowed to turn inside the Terras box with only five minutes played, but Jason Matthews was alert to the danger and saved at his near post.

Captain Paul Buckle nearly sliced a clearance into his own net before Matthews again produced a quality save with his feet to deny Peter Faulds following some sloppy defending.

Weymouth began to assert themselves in the latter stages of the first period and on 43 minutes Luke Nightingale should have capitalised on a missed clearance by Richard Robinson, but keeper Adam Rachel easily dealt with his scuffed attempt.

The home side were again quicker off the mark at the start of the second half and Matthews was again on hand to keep the scores level.

An uncleared free-kick was allowed to bounce inside the Terras six-yard box and Martin hooked the ball over his shoulder towards the top corner, but Matthews was across his line well to tip the ball over.

Two minutes later a Moor Green corner only needed the slightest of touches to break the deadlock as it flew across the face of the goal with Weymouth again riding their luck.

Then in the 74th minute an inspired change in personnel turned the game.

Mark Robinson was introduced in place of Shaun Wilkinson and he added the extra bite the Terras midfield was lacking.

Within 60 seconds of his arrival he won back possession inside the opposition's half and threaded a glorious ball behind the Moors defence.

Livewire Steve Tully raced on to the pass and kept his composure to slot home past Rachel to open the scoring.

Weymouth were caught napping from the restart and the home side levelled within a minute.

Graeme Power was guilty of ball watching as Martin flicked the ball through to Faulds inside the box. Matthews got a good hand on the Moors' winger's shot but was unable to keep the ball from crossing the line for the equaliser. To their credit Weymouth didn't let their heads drop and with six minutes remaining Robinson again won the ball in an attacking area.

He fed player-boss Claridge, who held off two defenders before sliding a pass through to Buckle who forced the ball home from eight yards to the delight of the travelling faithful.