Leverstock Green produced a marvellous performance in midweek to put six goals past Hadley, however that level of performance was nowhere to be seen as they crashed to an emphatic home defeat to Tring Athletic on Saturday.

It took just 35 seconds for the visitors to take the lead. The Green defence was in disarray as the ball was pulled back from the bye-line, and Kieran Turner pounced to smash the ball home.

Chris Vardy should have added a second for Tring in the 4th minute when he was left all alone in front of goal but headed wide. However, on 15 minutes an attempt to head away a Tring cross ended up as virtually a flick-on to present Vardy with a chance to shoot home the second goal, which this time he took.

The Leverstock side looked lifeless and lethargic, and the performance was completely lacking the work rate which had been seen on Tuesday night. Tring keeper Jack Hopwood was largely untroubled during the match.

There was no improvement from the Leverstock side during the second half, and Turner took advantage of some dreadful defending to add two further goals, shooting home from the edge of the box on 68 minutes and finishing from six yards out on 76 minutes to complete his hat-trick.

A vast improvement will be needed from the Green side when they visit champions elect Kings Langley in another local derby next Saturday.