By Gareth Davies

BOSS John Askey says that Saturday’s win over Maidstone United saw Truro City deliver the best performance of his tenure to date.

Against another of the pre-season promotion favourites, City were in control for long periods on the road in Kent, but could only turn their dominance into one goal as time ticked down.

Christian Oxlade-Chamberlain opened the scoring after 20 minutes but late on, substitute Reiss Greenidge turned home a corner in fortunate circumstances to restore parity.

However, undeterred, City went back up the other end and after a Will Dean free-kick caused havoc in the home box, Jaze Kabia was ruled to have scored, despite referee Morgan Conn not initially giving the goal. After consultation with one of his assistants, the goal was awarded and City were triumphant for the first time this term.

“I’m really pleased because taking into account pre-season and the first game, I think that is the best we have played,” Askey told trurocity.co.uk.

“The effort was fantastic and although there are things we can work on, I thought for the majority of the game, we were the better team. 

“It was a shame we didn’t take more of our chances because in the first half, we had three very good chances that we passed up. 

“But at this stage of the season, it doesn’t matter how you win, it is just about getting three points on the board. The sooner you can do that the better because we have a tough start to the season and this result takes the pressure off a little bit.

“It will give us confidence in what we are trying do and I want us to play more football and control games. 

“I think we did that in the first half and by controlling the game, we can put the ball in good areas.”