Prime traveled to Horsmonden to face Valour Reserves looking to defend their 5th position in the table. When the sides met at Cadogan earlier in the season, Prime were dominant but let a 2-goal lead slip in the last 5 minutes.

On the back of the impressive win at Leigh, changes were limited. Williams' absence allowed Walker to return in defence, with Ellis retained in his holding midfield role. Ferguson also returned and replaced Goldsmith up-front. With Henshall stuck in traffic, Sander started on the right-wing, with Buckland and Henshall joining the player/boss on the bench.

Prime started very sloppily and were nearly behind in the first minute as Abu gave the ball away from the centre and Valour's striker shot over the bar.

The Numbers started to find their feet with Sykes seeing plenty of the ball and his link-up with Nowak seemed Prime's best outlet. Most of the play was down Prime's left with the slope and wind pushing the ball down there. Sander on the right-wing was largely anonymous simply because the ball rarely got to him.

Prime nearly took the lead when Abu's seemingly scuffed shot from the edge of the box was spilled by the Valour keeper and Ferguson nipped in, but the keeper made amends by smothering his effort.

The bobbly surface was not helping either side but Valour nearly took the lead when they broke quickly and their striker curled an effort against Balcombe's near post.

Valour did take the lead mid-way through the half when an innocuous long ball was lost in the sun by the Prime defender and his mis-kick fell perfectly into the path of the onrushing striker who finished clinically beyond Balcombe.

Prime tried to hit back but Barker and Ferguson were well shackled and there were no real clear-cut chances for the rest of the half.

Henshall replaced Sander at the interval and Prime knew that with the slope now in their favour, they should be able to apply more pressure to the Valour defence and within 5 minutes they were level.

Flamank surged down the right and his cross found its way to Ferguson who held off his marker and fired past the keeper.

Suddenly Prime were on top and Nowak burst through and had a shot well saved, before another jinking run 5 minutes later was ended when he was chopped down right on the edge of the box - but Prime's claims for a penalty were waived away with the ref giving a free-kick right on the edge of the area.

Abu curled the free-kick towards the far post but it was deflected for a corner.

At the other end, a rare Valour foray forward ended with Flamank chopping down their winger on the edge of the Prime box. Luck was clearly against the visitors as the kick deflected off Nowak in the wall and into the corner of the net, with Balcombe wrong-footed.

The goal seemed to knock the stuffing out of Prime and Valour increased their lead when they broke quickly and their midfielder coolly slotted past the advancing keeper to put Valour 3-1 up with 20 minutes left.

Buckland replaced Nowak who had jarred his knee as well as being winded in the first-half by a full-blooded clearance hitting him in the chest. Henshall switched wings with Buckland playing on the right of midfield.

Prime won a corner soon after and Goldsmith decided it was 'kitchen-sink' time and he replaced Flamank and went straight up-front as Prime switched to 3-4-3.

He got his head to Henshall's inswinging corner, but the ball went narrowly wide of the far post.

Prime were now pushing Valour back, with Ellis seemingly winning every header from the keeper's goal-kicks and Buckland making some good tackles down the right.

Prime pulled one back when Goldsmith's long throw was flicked on by Ellis and although the ball was half-cleared, Abu's delicate chip found Barker arriving at the back post to glance home a header.

It was now very much game on and from another Prime set piece, Ferguson and Barker had shots blocked before the ball rolled to Goldsmith on the corner of the 6-yard box. His shot hit the raised arm of the Valour defender on the line and rebounded to safety. Prime screamed for the penalty, but amazingly the ref failed to give it - saying that the defender could not have got out of the way - but surely with his arm up protecting his face a penalty would have been the right call.

As if spurred on by the injustice, Prime continued to batter away at Valour and with a minute on the clock, Sykes' long free-kick from the centre-circle found it's way to Goldsmith who back-pedaled and got a firm flick header onto the ball which the keeper did well to save onto the post, but Goldsmith stretched out a long left leg to volley the ball back over the keeper and into the far corner, sparking what turned out to be premature scenes of celebration.

The ref then managed to find an additional 3 minutes from somewhere and in the last one of those, Valour produced a sickening winner when they broke down the right and with Prime short on numbers at the back, they rolled home a simple goal to take the 3 points.

It means that Valour move above Prime in the table and The Numbers will need to get back to winning ways at Brenchley on Wednesday night.