Halifax keep play-off chase on track with win over Ebbsfleet

Feb 1, 2025 1 min read
Halifax’s Jamie Cooke crashed home a brilliant goal against Ebbsfleet (Rhianna Chadwick/PA)
Halifax’s Jamie Cooke crashed home a brilliant goal against Ebbsfleet (Rhianna Chadwick/PA)

Jamie Cooke’s brilliant second-half volley sealed Halifax a 2-0 home win against the National League’s bottom club Ebbsfleet.

Midfielder Cooke fired a 30-yard volley into the top corner after Leeds loanee Luca Thomas’s first goal for the Shaymen had given them a half-time lead.

Thomas, making his second appearance for the home side after arriving last month, produced a clinical low finish, in off the far post, to give Halifax an early lead.

Ebssfleet, whose winless league run was extended to 21 matches, saw George Moncur’s first-half corner scrambled off the goalline before Cooke lashed home one of the goals of the season in the 69th minute.

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