Welling came from behind at Eastleigh to stay second in Blue Square Bet South on Saturday.

Trailing to Craig McAllister’s close-range tap-in in the ninth minute, second-half goals from Scott Kinch, Anthony Acheampong, pictured, and Keirnan Hughes-Mason sealed the win.

The Wings were never fluent in the first half, although they had a penalty appeal turned down when Joe Healy was bundled over and Ross Lafayette dragged his shot wide of the far post.

At the other end, it needed an excellent save by keeper Sam Mott to deny Damian Scannell and then home skipper Glen Southam, twice on the stroke of half-time, to keep the Wings in the game.

After the break it was one-way traffic. Lafayette set up Kinch, who powerfully drove home from 20 yards for his second goal in as many games to level the scores on 56 minutes.

Welling went ahead in the 67th minute when Jamie Day’s free-kick was helped goalwards by Healy and keeper Jack Dovey made a mess of it under the challenge of Acheampong.

Hughes-Mason should have made it three with 13 minutes left but he sliced his shot wide after good work by Healy and Lafayette. But it did not prove a costly miss as, within a minute, Healy and Day combined to send him through and he cut inside Michael Green before beating the onrushing Dovey.

Mott again came to his side’s rescue late on while the one sour note for Welling was Kinch hobbling off with nine minutes remaining.