De Vita adds to Plymouth plight

Raffaele De Vita ensured rock-bottom Plymouth Argyle's woes continue as his late strike gave Swindon a 1-0 win at Home Park.

The striker swooped to fire home Swindon's 82nd-minute angled winner from the left hand side of the box following a flowing passing movement that finished with Matt Ritchie teeing up the scorer. The closest either side came to scoring in the first half was in the 16th minute when Curtis Nelson's downward header from a corner was cleared off the goal-line by Ritchie. Central defender Nelson had an earlier volley blocked by Alan McCormack and Town keeper Wes Foderingham easily collected Robbie Williams' goal-bound follow-up. Simon Ferry blasted an angled drive just wide as Town pressed for the opener and then Jonathan Smith flashed a header just wide from substitute Mehdi Kerrouche's 74th-minute left-wing cross. Liam Ridehalgh made a superb sliding tackle to deny Argyle's teenage striker Matt Lecointe but from the corner Foderingham had to go full stretch to flap over substitute Jamie Griffiths powerful headed effort - it was a vital save as in the next attack Swindon took the lead.