HEYBRIDGE Swifts have nothing to fear from Soham Town Rangers.

Swifts entertain Soham in a Ryman League division one north encounter at Scraley Road on Saturday.

Heybridge took on Soham in the opening game of the season and fell to a 3-1 defeat.

But Swifts boss Keith Wilson, buoyed by his side’s rescheduled second qualifying round FA Trophy 1-1 draw at Ryman Premier Lewes on Wednesday night, is in determined mood.

He said: “The table doesn’t look great at the moment.

“We need to string three or four results together but we can use the the Lewes result as a springboard.

“It has to be a ctaylyst for us now to push on.

“Soham were the first team I took on as manager of Heybridge and we lost when we shouldn’t have.

“So we have nothing to fear from them. We just need to get going.”

Swifts had a lot of pressure at the Dripping Pan ground with Jon Glowacki and Neil Richmond going close before Nikki Beale headed against the bar.

But it was Lewes who made the breakthrough in first-half injury-time.

A Tom Davis free-kick was spilt by Sambridge and Ollie Rowe fired the ball into the net.

However, Swifts pulled themselves back into the game on 65 minutes.

Daniel Lopes crossed the ball in and Billy Hunt pulled it back for Neil Richmond to fire into the top-left corner to earn a replay next Tuesday night.

Wilson said: “We thoroughly deserved the result as we dominated for long periods of the game.

“We could have been one or two up in the first ten minutes.

“But to then concede a soft goal just before the break, we showed great character to come back.

“If we had gone in at 0-0 I think we would have gone on to win the game.”