The Rebels made the long Bank Holiday Monday trip to Truro off the back of their draw at Hemel Hempstead Town on Saturday where Jack Spong scored the equaliser deep into added time. Truro had made a positive start to the campaign themselves, having picked up seven points from a possible twelve, including 3 points at home to Enfield Town to kick off the Bank Holiday weekend.

Chris Agutter made two changes to the side that started at Hemel, with Joel Colbran returning to the starting eleven along with Ollie Starkey who made his first start of the campaign. Sam Beard and Harrison Smith were named on the bench.

It was a slow start to proceedings on a sunny afternoon in Cornwall. The Tinners were happy for the Rebels to have plenty of the ball, but the Rebels couldn’t quite make any clear-cut chances in the first period.

It was in fact the Tinners who had the first real chance of the match. Jaze Kabia found himself in behind the Worthing defence after a mix up between Joe Cook and Alfie Young. Kabia looked to chip it over Chris Haigh who was stranded off his line, but his lobbed effort bounced wide of the upright.

Worthing’s most threatening moment came through Nicky Wheeler on the left flank. He beat his man brilliantly, showing great strength and agility in doing so to get to the byline. He looked to pick out Spong who would have had a golden chance to break the deadlock, but the pass was just behind him and the danger was cleared.

As the goalless first half looked to be petering out, the Tinners had other ideas and Kabia poked home to open the scoring just two minutes before half time and Agutter’s side had conceded first for the fourth match in a row.

Into the second half, it went from bad to worse for the Rebels. The Tinners started brightly and could have doubled their lead just five minutes in when it opened up for Seidou Sanogo following a corner but Young made the block and somehow, Haigh managed to gather it eventually after scrambling for it.

It wasn’t long after that Truro did get their second. Andrew Neal won the ball high up the pitch for the Tinners and he laid it to Will Dean who tucked it away.

Two minutes later, it was three through Kabia who netted his second after getting on the end of Neal’s cross.

Kabia completed his hattrick five minutes later as the Tinners scored their third in ten minutes. Yassine En-Neyah picked off Glen Rea’s pass and played through Kabia for his third.

The fifth goal came just ten minutes later as Truro got in behind the Worthing defence once again. Sanogo charged into the area and fired in to pile the misery on.

To rub salt into the wounds, Alfie Young was shown a straight red card in added time.

There were chances for the home side to add a few more before the full time whistle, but it remained 5-0 on an afternoon to forget for the Rebels in Cornwall.

They will look to put this one behind them when they head to Hampton and Richmond on Saturday.

Worthing: Chris Haigh, Joe Cook (Off 62’), Alfie Young, Glen Rea, Joel Colbran, Kane Wills (Off 62’), Nicky Wheeler (Off 62’), Jack Spong, Danny Cashman (Off 81’), Tommy Willard, Ollie Starkey

Subs: Sam Beard, Jake Hutchinson (On 62’), Harrison Smith (On 62’), Ollie Black (On 62’), Jack Bates (On 81’).