Rugby had to come from behind twice to overcome a resilient Desborough Town in the wind and rain at Waterworks Field.

Dan Summerfield, David Kolodynski and Jordan Wilson were all on target for Valley to help maintain their four-point advantage at the top of the UCL Premier South table.

With skipper Loyiso Recci still serving a suspension, the return of Wilson for Madundo Semahimbo was the only change to Town's starting line-up, and Wilson could have given the visitors a fourth minute lead when he found himself clean through on goal after Alex Lock's searching header, but the striker helped the ball wide of Adam Honour's goal instead.

Despite this early opportunity, Rugby took a while to get going and it was the home side that looked the more likely to open the scoring.

Desborough made their deserved breakthrough on 33 minutes when Matt Hill failed to grasp Luca Miller's high inswinging corner from the left, with Iain Blaikie possibly getting a further touch on the ball with his head as it crossed the line.

Valley stepped up a gear after conceding the goal though, with Wilson slashing one wide of the target shortly after.

However Town nearly conceded again from another swirling corner delivered by Miller, but Adam Randall's bundled effort came back off the crossbar and was then scrambled away.

With only a minute of the opening half remaining, Rugby grabbed themselves a timely equaliser with a well-worked move which saw Kolodynski neatly release Luke English down the right wing, and his low, powerful cross was duly rounded off at the far post by Summerfield.

There was still time for Kolodynski to test Honour with a sweetly struck shot from the edge of the area before the half-time whistle was blown.

Rugby re-emerged for the new period with a more purposeful approach, although Will Russell did send one wide from distance as a reminder of the potential threat posed by the hosts.

Josh Thomas missed out with a header to a Caine Elliott corner, before Desborough went ahead once more - this time against the run of play - when Miller's strike took a slight deflection to wrong-foot Hill after Town had only partially cleared their lines.

Town's second equaliser on 64 minutes was another nicely crafted affair, with English again providing the assist from out wide for Kolodynski to slide in at the near post and convert.

Valley's third soon arrived too, when Summerfield did well down the left hand side before Wilson met his crisp delivery with a cleverly executed finish.

Desborough almost levelled things up on a couple of occasions though - first seeing a goal ruled out for handball and then they were denied by an excellent saving tackle by Thomas.

Rugby sub Justin Marsden fired one over and fellow replacement Ryan Seal troubled Honour with an inswinging corner of his own, whilst at the other Town's defence stood firm to see out the hard fought for victory.

Valley Line-up: Hill; Rosser, Francis, Thomas; English, Summerfield, Fitzharris (Seal), Elliott (Marsden), Lock; Kolodynski (Ahenkorah), Wilson (Semahimbo). Subs not used: Kear. Booked: Fitzharris.

Desborough line-up: A.Honour, L.Honour, McClean, Tebbatt, Davies, Randall, Elmore, Hale, Blaikie, Miller, Russell. Subs: Nkrumah, Bradshaw, Boateng, Awoleke.