Story byGuernsey FC continued their excellent form thanks to three second-half goals [Fran Torode]BBCMon, January 19, 2026 at 8:25 AM UTC·3 min readGuernsey FC manager Tony Vance praised his side's second-half fightback as they came from 2-1 down to beat Lingfield 4-2. The win consolidated Guernsey's third place in the Southern Combination Premier Division as the Green Lions won for the eighth time in nine games. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementFrazer Maginnis had given the islanders a sixth-minute lead while Sam Murray came close to making it 2-0 soon after. But Lingfield - who are fifth from bottom - hit back as Deven Reid-Solanki made it 1-1 after 20 minutes before he making it 2-1 13 minutes later as he converted Jason Stripp's cross. Guernsey eventually pulled level 19 minutes into the second half when Jacques Cauvain forced home a cross before the island side won it in the final 10 minutes. Ben Solway made it 3-2 after heading home Charlton Gauvain's 81st-minute corner before Harry Rowland turned Murray's cross past his own goalkeeper deep in stoppage time. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement"First five or 10 minutes I thought we were electric and we really went for them and it looked like we were going to put in a decent performance," Vance told BBC Radio Guernsey."Then just after Sam missed that opportunity straight after scoring, we stopped the tempo, stopped doing what we trained to do and what we were doing in that first 10 minutes and just really just took the gas off."We were just so lethargic and it allowed them to sort of get a grip on things and cause problems and we didn't really know what we could do then because we just lost our way for 30 minutes."That put us in a really difficult position in the whole game because then you're 2-1 down, give away two poor goals, their tails are up and we were very much down. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement"So at half-time we demanded better in the second half. I was pretty angry to be honest because of that 30-minute period where it was going to make us have to work really hard to get a win."But credit to the players, second half they were brilliant - right energy, right execution, right sort of moments where we got the ball in the areas that we needed to do and you got over the line."Late heartbreak for Guernsey FC WomenCodie Le Flem's 15th goal of the season was not enough to earn a point for Guernsey FC [Guernsey FC]Meanwhile, Guernsey FC Women suffered a heartbreaking late 2-1 loss at home to Bemerton Heath Harlequins at Victoria Park. Charlotte Fastman’s excellent long-range effort had given the visiting side a seventh minute lead. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementCodie Le Flem levelled just before the interval with a strike from outside the box for her 15th goal of the season. Donna Gallienne struck the Bemerton crossbar in the 85th minute as Guernsey searched for a winner but it was their opponents who would go home with all three points. Hollie Keating struck what proved to be the winner in the first minute of stoppage time as Guernsey failed to win for a sixth successive game. The loss leaves the Green Lionesses sixth in the Southern Region Women's Division One South with 14 points from 12 games. Related internet linksGuernsey FC.