PAUL Williams rates Witton Albion’s win at Loughborough Dynamo on Saturday as his side’s best of the season so far.

The midfielder includes last Tuesday’s victory over league leaders Shaw Lane in his reckoning, but told the Guardian a 4-0 success at the weekend topped even that.

He said: “For us, it was a bigger one.

“The evidence this season is we’ve stumbled once or twice in games like that – think games at Carlton or Market Drayton – and it was so important not to do so again after beating Shaw Lane.

“It was a bit of a struggle in the first half; the conditions weren’t the best and they just sat back and invited us on to them.

“We were comfortable in the second though once we’d found our feet.”

Rob Hopley’s goal established an interval advantage before Brad Bauress scored three times after the break to extend an unbeaten run in Division One South to nine matches.

Seven of those have been wins too.

It leaves Witton six points adrift of Shaw Lane, a gap they can halve if they return as victors from a visit to Stocksbridge Park Steels tonight, kick off 7.45pm.

However the Sheffield outfit will prove a testing obstacle to overcome if a goalless stalemate at Wincham Park back in October is a guide.

They had won successive games, against Rugby and then Romulus, before a 2-0 defeat at home to Kidsgrove on Saturday.

Williams said: “We expect a battle; they’re a big, strong physical side.

“They’ll be organised with it, but right now I just have faith that every time we go forward we can score a goal.

“I don’t think anybody can stop our front four or five players when they play like we know they’re capable of.”