WORCESTER City chalked up their first win of the season thanks to a brilliant second-half display against a Lowestoft side who arrived at Aggborough with back-to-back victories. They won 2-1.

The win was made even more impressive by the fact that Worcester played more than half the game with ten men after Ashley Vincent was sent off on his full debut, being shown the red card after he retaliated to an incident involving visiting defender Jack Ainsley.

City took a while to get going and could have been a goal down inside 30 seconds when a hopeful ball forward from midfielder Chris Henderson lured home keeper Nathan Vaughan out of his area.

The City shot-stopper failed to connect leaving Lowestoft’s Dan Crow in the clear but he lifted his effort over the gaping goal.

Daniel Nti had a couple of half-chances for Worcester but both sides were struggling to get a shot on target until the visitors did just that and opened the scoring in the process.

Henderson was involved from the start, playing the ball inside before collecting the return pass wide on the left where he somehow managed to power his shot past Vaughan and into the roof of the net.

Five minutes later it could have been 2-0 when visiting skipper Rossi Jarvis was left unmarked just outside the area but his shot soared over the target.

Lowestoft had scored with their first effort on target and it proved the same for City five minutes before half-time.

A corner was not clearedand when the ball was worked back out to Ellis Deeney on the right, he dinked it into the area where Clayton McDonald headed on and Nti darted in to steer his shot past the advancing Jake Jessop in the visitors’ goal.

The goal should have boosted the Aggborough outfit but their hard work was almost undone within two minutes when Vincent was sent off after he and Ainsley grappled on the floor.

It meant City have had a player sent off in each of their three matches with the Suffolk side — Vaughan and Deeney seeing red last season. But as so often happens, it was the ten men who rose to mthe challenge and Worcester totally dominated the second-half, rattling up 14 efforts on the visitors’ goal.

On 54 minutes Nti was thwarted by goalkeeper Jessop with Alex Gudger heading inches wide moments later.

Midway through the half it was Sean Geddes who went close with a rasping 25-yard drive that the towering Jessop pushed over the crossbar.

Nti fired another effort too mhigh five minutes later but the striker was involved in City’s winner 16 minutes from time. Having tormented the Lowestoft defence, Nti was barged over by substitute Shaun Bammant inside the area allowing Geddes to fire in the subsequent spot-kick.

The visitors could find no response and not even five added-on minutes saw them conjure up a chance to threaten the City goal.