Not for the first time this season Curzon should have won by a comfortable margin, but instead they were left with ten men in a nervy final three minutes plus stoppage time to ensure that they came away with maximum points.
Curzon did most of the attacking throughout the game with the Dolly Blues looking to hit them quickly on the break and it was the visitors who had the first effort on goal as Josh Mitten tried his luck but his effort was weak and easily collected by Mark Thornley.
An attempted clearance by Alex Mortimer at the other end of the match struck Neil Uberschar with the rebound falling kindly to the feet of Neil Marshall, but his shot was wayward and flew well over the top. 
A City  corner was quickly cleared to the opposite end by keeper David Carnell, and a head-on by Mitten had Dougie Pringle racing onto the ball only to be out numbered by Iain Swan and keeper Mark Thornley.
The deadlock was broken on the 26th minute as Curzon moved the ball from right to left, before being rolled into the path of Mortimer. His cross to the far post was met with a majestic leap by Rhodri Giggs who steered his header over Thornley, leaving the ball nestling in the far corner of the net to give the visitors a deserved lead.
Three minutes later and it was nearly two as Carnell once again set up an attack after collecting the ball from a City corner kick. With the ball finding it's way to Chris Worsley on the left, his cross found Pringle, like Giggs earlier at the far post, but the forward looked to have been caught in two minds and his header back inside the 6 yard area was easily taken by Thornley.
The lead was finally doubled on 36 minutes when a Giggs corner had both home and visiting players trying to get a touch on the lose ball, before Mitten drove home through a crowded area from 14 yards out.
The second period was reminiscent of the first as Chris Curley played a diagonal ball inside to Mitten. The forward got his head to the ball only to see it strike Guy Heffernan and deflected safely into the hands of his keeper.
Giggs watched as a header went wide of target, Nick Allen had a chance to make the game safe but found Thornley coming quickly off his line to smoother his shot, and Pringle, racing towards goal, got his head to the ball before the advancing Thornley, but his effort bounced the wrong side of the upright just after the hour mark.
Curzon were reduced to ten men on 82 minutes after they lost possession of the bal just inside the home half  and the ball was quickly knocked forward to Marshall. Dave Birch's last ditch tackle failed to get a foot on the ball, and as the last defender he left referee David Holloway with no option other than to wave a red card in his direction.
Despite being down to ten men it was still the visitors doing the attacking and once more it was Pringle getting his foot to a cross but knocking it just over the top.
With three minutes of the 90 remaining City gave themselves a lifeline when, after the referee awarded them a dubious free kick in a central position and 20 yards from goal, Marshall drove the ball low and past the defensive wall to beat the stranded Carnell.