The Spalding goal machine continues to hit the mark as the Tulips added two more wins to their tally to stay in touch with Southern League Premier Midland leaders Harborough Town.
A comfortable 3-0 victory over Needham Market on Saturday was followed by a backs-to-the-walls 2-1 success against Bury Town three days later.
It saw the team’s two strikers, Jack Roberts and Bart Cybulski take their combined total for the season to 25 goals.
Roberts added two more on Saturday to reach 13, with Cybulski also on target in a one-sided encounter at the Sir Halley Stewart Field.
A flu-hit team had to rely on the counter-attack on Tuesday, with Cybulski and Dion Sembie-Ferris scoring, and Roberts providing both assists.
Manager Jimmy Dean said: “Saturday was a solid three points; a comfortable win. It was a back-to-basics performance and we committed a few more bodies forward. Needham only had one chance and, apart from that, it was one-way traffic.
“It was a good game between two good sides – they’d only lost one in eight and we’d lost one in nine,” he added. “Robbo and Bart going forward are unstoppable and when they’re on it we have to enjoy it.”
Cybulski put the Tulips ahead after 33 minutes with a near-post header from Alfie Bendle’s corner and Roberts rifled in a trademark free-kick from 25 yards to make it 2-0 six minutes later.
A loose ball across the area found its way to Roberts to slam in his second goal in first-half stoppage time.
Even without the suspended Liam Moore, Spalding looked solid at the back as they covered well for the three-match absence of their captain.
Bendle’s superb cross-field pass freed Roberts and he fired the ball across goal for Cybulski to slide it into the net for Tuesday’s opener on the hour mark but Bury levelled within ten minutes.
A great touch and cross from Roberts saw Sembie-Ferris tap in for carbon copy of the opener for the winner.
“It was our fourth game in 11 days and we had flu in the camp so we were dead on our feet,” said Dean. “We defended well and that gave us a chance to win the game with quality on the break; great counter-attacking football.”
Tulips v Needham: Wilks, Hart, Olopade (Blythe), White, Johnson, Lawlor, Roberts (Ceesay), Bendle (Thompson), Cybulski, Sani (McCammon), Ceesay (Nicholson).
Attendance: 337.
Tulips v Bury: Wilks (Dadge), Hart, Olopade, White, Johnson, Thompson (Lawlor), Roberts, Bendle, Cybulski, Sani (McCammon), Sembie-Ferris. Subs: West, Blythe.
Attendance: 315.
