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Ross Allen's landmark 300th goal for Guernsey FC ensured a first home win for the Green Lions since March.

The club's record goalscorer stuck in the 87th minute to seal a 2-1 win over Hanworth Villa.

Allen - who scored a hat-trick on his debut in Guernsey's first-ever match in August 2011 - reached his triple century of goals in 337 games, having scored 29 hat-tricks.

"It's his 300th goal at this level, which is absolutely incredible," manager Tony Vance told ���˿��� Radio Guernsey.

"We played him a little bit higher today because we didn't have many strikers, we've been playing him more in midfield, because the situation's dictated that.

"So he was he was up front and did really well for an old man up there.

"He works very, very hard, but he actually missed two sitters which normally you'd put your mortgage on.

"But that's classic Ross, he probably wanted to score his 300th goal a little bit more classier and his finish, his goal, was just classic him.

"It was an outstanding goal and he deserves every credit he's going to get because 300 at this level is absolutely incredible."

Guernsey were missing seven players through a combination of injuries and call-ups for the Guernsey FA's Under 21 side's Muratti clash with Jersey.

But Fin Patterson gave the hosts a fourth-minute lead as he got on the end of a Simon Arnold pass to open the scoring.

Hanworth Villa created chances and eventually levelled when Sam Merson curled a 79th-minute free kick into the top corner.

But Allen was on hand to get the winner as he picked up the ball on the edge of the area and used his strength to hold off two defenders before finding the bottom corner at an angle with three minutes left.

The win ended a 15-game run without a victory at Footes Lane - Guernsey last won on home soil on 9 March when they beat Corinthian Casuals 4-0.

The victory lifts them up to third-from-bottom in Isthmian League South Central, three points off safety.

"We have to sustain an awful lot of pressure and it was often long ball, very aerial," added Vance.

"We dealt with it fairly well, it was frustrating to concede the goal because whilst they were pushing I thought we defended, really, really well.

"But they scored a good free kick, but unfortunately for me it wasn't really a foul, so the warning signs were there, the concern was there because you think they're going to go on and win the game, it's just classic us.

"But then cometh the hour, cometh the man."