Jayden Clarke equalised two minutes later in a breathless start to the contest - but United prevailed courtesy of Cursons' 52nd minute spot-kick and Wheeldon's close-range effort 15 minutes from time.

Full report to follow...

Forest Green (4-4-2): Ethan Ross; Kyle Kelly (Nick Haughton 56), Filozefe Mabete, Gabriel Kircough, Freddie Sass (Omari Patrick 75); Kyle McAllister, Tate Campbell (Preston Fearon 62), Jayden Clarke, Sean Etaluku; Kelvin Abrefa (Tre Pemberton 62), D'Mani Mellor (Mees Rijks 56). Subs (not used): Oli Ewing, Luke McNicholas (gk).

Boston (4-3-2-1): Louis Chadwick; Connor Teale (Sai Sachdev 72), Jake Rooney, Jamie Grimes, Georgie Gent; Gavan Holohan, Terrell Agyemang, Nicholas Pozo (Levi Sutton 59); Ken Aboh (Ollie Bostock 85), Tom Cursons (Lenell John-Lewis 85), Lennon Wheeldon. Subs (not used): Niall Canavan, Connor McBride, Luke Faxon (gk).

Referee: Jason Richardson.

Attendance: 1,945 (131 visitors).

PIC: Chris Bray.