Hume City continued its momentum on Saturday night in the National Premier League but it was made to work hard for the three points.
Having found some consistency in recent weeks, Hume was tested by a St Albans Saints on Saturday under lights.
Godfrey Debele opened the scoring in the eighth minute for Hume, before the Saints equalised in the 21st minute through a penalty.
When the Saints scored the first goal of the second half, they took the lead for the first time for the night.
Birkan Kirdar levelled the scores when he converted a penalty in the 59th minute before Lloyd Isgrove put Hume back in front in the 81st minute.
It was enough for Hume to win 3-2.
Hume assistant coach Johno Clemente said it was a good feeling to keep their winning streak intact, having now won four straight games.
“It’s a good day in football when you win like that, especially the boys had to dig deep in those moments,” he said speaking to Hume City’s social media.
“It’s something we have been accustomed to in recent wins and we’ve got the ability to do it and it feels better every single time you come from behind and get a result this one is no different.”
Clemente stepped into the coaching hot seat on Saturday night in the absence of Riccardo Marchioli.
He said it was a good experience but nothing changed for them and the playing group.
“It has been great, I think the way that we do the coaching here at Hume is quite a collaborative experience,” he said.
“I think the boys can really thrive off that in terms of how we lead training and lead games, it was no different.
“We’ve set principles pretty early on how we want to play and Ric’s on the touchline, if I’m on the touchline, there’s no difference and that definitely the second half performance showed that.”
Clemente admitted though the first half performance wasn’t what they had been hoping for and it left them work to do in the second half.
He said the message at half time was clear.
“It was play more like Hume,” he said. “We would have been very disappointed if the game ended at half time because of the way we were playing football.
“We were playing too long, we were playing too straight, that is not the team that we have created here and it’s not the style that we want at this football club.
“That is the message, be more like us and I think we got the rewards in the end.”
The win was Hume’s seventh of the season, moving them up to fifth spot..
They face the fifth placed Preston Lions on Friday night.
