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Sat 22 Aug 2015  ·  Premier Division
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Stourbridge 0 Workington 0

Stourbridge 0 Workington 0

Richard Clark22 Aug 2015 - 20:02
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A match played in stifling heat finished goal-less, as neither side was able to find that little bit of quality needed to unlock the opposing defence.

Gary Hackett made three changes from the starting line-up against Nantwich Town on Monday night. Charlie Price, who broke a bone in his arm at Whitby last Saturday, and Kayelden Brown were unavailable, whilst Chris Knight was on the bench, with Lewis Solly, Kristian Green and Leon Broadhurst drafted in. There was also a substitute’s spot for Youth Team defender Jacob Wedderburn.

In weather better suited to Amblecote’s other sport, it was the Glassboys who made the early running. Drew Canavan tried his luck from 50 yards with 3 minutes played, but the back-pedalling Alex Mitchell in the visitors’ goal was equal to his effort, and the ball seemed set to drift wide anyway. Karl Hawley then broke clear on 6 minutes but was forced wide of goal and when his shot came in Mitchell was again able to save.

Stuart Pierpoint was next to threaten on 8 minutes when his header from Canavan’s corner was hurriedly booted clear by a defender, despite Mitchell appearing to have it covered.

Workington came close for the first time in the 10th minute, as Solly had to dive to his right to parry a curling shot from Joseph McGee, but thereafter the half settled into something of a stalemate for a time, with neither side able to carve out clear openings.

There was a moment of alarm for the Glassboys after 26 minutes as McGee anticipated, and then intercepted, Pierpoint’s backpass, but Broadhurst held him up long enough for Pierpoint to recover and clear at the expense of a corner. Two minutes later the action switched to the other end as Brian Smikle cut in from the right and saw his 20 yard shot held by Mitchell despite the ball taking a slightly awkward bounce in front of the keeper.

Canavan’s free kick from the edge of the penalty area, after a foul on Karl Hawley, then produced a good save from Mitchell, leaping to his left, and then only an offside flag halted Hawley as he bore down on goal after Matt Dodd had put the ball through.

The final action of the half saw Solly pull off a splendid reaction save to his left from Matthew Tymon’s sweetly-struck shot. The effort would not have counted in any case as the flag had already been raised for another offside, but neither Solly nor Tymon was to know that.

The second period began with another flurry of chances. First Dodd, who had just been off the field receiving treatment, sprung the visitors’ back-line but could only shoot tamely at Mitchell. Had he scored there may well have been some disgruntlement amongst the Workington ranks but Dodd had rejoined play with the officials’ permission and had not been picked up on the right flank.

Less than a minute later Dodd was well and truly in the thick of things. Set free down the right wing, he cut along the dead ball line and was brought to earth by Kyle May’s challenge, causing referee Joe Clark to point to the penalty spot. It appeared that the foul may have been just outside the area, but, by the same token, there seemed few complaints from those in yellow shirts. Dodd, however, was unable to repeat his conversion of Monday, putting his shot low to Mitchell’s left but with insufficient power to prevent the keeper saving.

With 58 minutes played, Smikle broke through on the right and tried to square to the unmarked Chilton only for his cross to be cut out by a defender, and then a fine move involving substitute Josh Morgan-Parker, Canavan and Chilton saw the latter’s shot again lack the necessary sting as Mitchell saved to his right.

Alex Salmon fired well wide for Workington on 72 minutes, before Dan Scarr headed just over for the Glassboys at the other end from Canavan’s corner. But from that point onwards, with about 15 minutes to play, it was the visitors who began to exert more pressure

James Earl produced a thunderous 80th minute shot from 20 yards which struck the top of Solly’s crossbar so venomously that it bounced clean over the Shed roof, and then the same player only just cleared the crossbar with a fizzing effort four minutes later. The final effort of note came from Joshua Calvert, whose header from a right-wing corner was gratefully clutched by Solly under the angle of post and bar.

Plenty of effort from both sides in energy-sapping conditions, but a draw over all was probably the fairest outcome.

Match details

Match date

Sat 22 Aug 2015

Kickoff

15:00

Attendance

415

Competition

Premier Division
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