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Folkestone Invicta boss Neil Cugley eyes two wins to stay in play-off contention

Neil Cugley
Neil Cugley

by Andrew Gidley

Folkestone Invicta go into their trip to Three Bridges on Saturday knowing they must win their final two games to stay in the Ryman League Division 1 South play-off picture.

The race for play-off places intensified on Tuesday night with Faversham and Leatherhead both winning.

The Surrey club highlighted their inconsistency beating leaders Dulwich Hamlet in midweek, four days after losing at home to Burgess Hill, and represent the biggest danger to the play-offs being an all Kent affair, if the South London club pip Maidstone to the title.

Boss Neil Cugley (pictured) is expecting Three Bridges to be no pushovers when his side travel to West Sussex.

Five wins out of six have boosted Three Bridges chances of avoiding immediate relegation, after being promoted last season.

Cugley conceded: "We beat them 4-1 earlier in the season, Stuart King getting a hat-trick in his last game for the club. They looked dead and buried at one stage. but have done really well, and are quite good up front."

"There are so many derbies in the season when we are battling to take points off each other, but it will be great if four Kent sides make it, and we will be doing the best we can.

"We have lost only three times in 22 games, so must be doing something right."

Midfielder Phil Stevenson is the only injury doubt, hoping to shake off an ankle problem in time for the weekend.

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