DORCHESTER Town first-team coach Brian Churchill praised the Magpies for grinding out a valuable 1-0 win at Wimborne Town, admitting the victory was not “pleasing on the eye”.

Dorchester’s fourth away win of the season came courtesy of Olaf Koszela’s lethal finish in the 37th minute.

Alfie Stanley spurned the Magpies’ two other major chances, toe-poking over when faced with an open goal and seeing a one-on-one chance thwarted by ex-Dorchester keeper Gerard Benfield.

Wimborne’s best chance came in the 89th minute when Curtis Young made a mess of his own chance in front of an open goal.

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It meant Dorchester prised a three-point gap to the bottom three with four games to go after Kings Langley earned a 0-0 draw with Gosport.

Overall, the match lacked fluency on a fast and sandy New Cuthbury surface but Churchill was satisfied with how the Magpies closed out the three points.

“It was never going to be pleasing on the eye,” he told Echosport.

“It was a team performance, we did what we had to do at the right times. On the balance of play we deserved the three points.

“It was a quick pitch – fast, bumpy and difficult to control the ball. I thought we huffed and puffed and created chances.

“Ultimately, the game’s been decided by one bit of class from Olaf. We all thought when Harry (McGrath) stepped on the ball when he was right through that the chance had gone.

“Fair play to Olaf, he does that week in, week out in training so it was nice to see him do that in matchplay and what turned out to be the winner for us.”

Koszela now has two goals in five games and Churchill was glad to see the Torquay loanee back in goalscoring form.

He said: “Olaf’s picked that ball up from wide and cut in on to his favoured right foot and killed it into the far corner.

“I don’t think Gerard had much chance with that one. It was nice to see Olaf back on the scoresheet.

“He’ll only get better in these last four games. He’s worked really hard.

“I would like to look at our GPS stats for that game. Harry’s run his socks off, Olaf’s run his socks off for us, Alfie until he came off.

“Everyone’s put a shift in and if everyone does that you get a result more often than not.”

On top-scorer Stanley’s unusual troubles in front of goal, Churchill added: “Alfie snatched at one in the first half and will be disappointed.

“We should’ve wrapped the game up and then we don’t have those nervy last few minutes. To be fair, we saw the game out quite well.”