WESTBURY United's season continued to fall apart around them on Saturday as they crashed to their ninth defeat in the last 10 games.

United have gone from being title contenders to mid table mediocrity in the space of two months as their goal power has completely dried up.

This was Clevedon's second victory over Westbury in the last week and manager Derek Graham was left rueing injuries to his star strikers.

He said: "We are desperately missing Wayne Wheeler and Toby Colbourne, who have been out with long term injuries.

"We were scoring for fun before, now it seems as though we can't buy a goal. If you lose your strikers you will always be in trouble.

"We could have been four up on Saturday but in the end they scored with some superb efforts and we ended up losing again."

On a lovely surface United again resorted to playing a majority of long balls which were comfortably dealt with by the outstanding Mark Jenkins in the home team's defence.

After Jerad O'Pray had gone close twice early on as United looked to start quickly it was Ben Trace who found space 25 yards from goal to curl an accurate shot beyond the reach of Mark Batters to open the scoring on 15.

Andy Goodenough should have equalised but could only glance a header from Steve Seals' deep cross wide.

Then O'Pray beat Ian Ganfield but Craig Knight scrambled back to clear the danger. Clevedon counter attacked and as Batters came out to meet Damian Thorne the striker chipped home to double the lead.

United hit straight back when Goodenough was felled 30 yards from goal and Nick Beales struck a sublime free kick into the top left of Ganfield's goal.

For the second game in succession United were hit by a goal immediately after half time.

This time a cross by Nick Moore fell to Trace.

His shot was weak but far enough away from Batters to score his second and Clevedon's third.

Trace let himself down on 57 minutes as he blatantly elbowed Mark Pearce and received a red card.

Ganfield blocked O'Pray's effort just after the hour and, despite being down to 10 men, Clevedon extended their lead to 4-1 when, after a fine run by Chris Greenslade, Eugene Dunn blasted the ball into the top corner.

Goodenough and Allan Clarke had shots saved by Ganfield before Seals reduced the arrears with 10 minutes remaining by heading in Adam Young's cross. Westbury travel to Wellington tomorrow and Graham is planning a change in tactics.

He said: "The only way out of this now is to try and play a different way.

"We have played like this for two years but it is not working. It is a shame because we enjoy playing our attacking style but there is a time when you have to look to edge games 1-0.

"The lads don't know what to do at the moment and it is down to the management to talk them through it."