St@tto's Match Report - Kidderminster Harriers v Solihull Borough 18 March 2002

Kidderminster Harriers 2(1) v (0)1 Solihll Borough

After Extra Time

Worcestershire Senior Cup Semi-Final - Aggborough - 18 March 2002

Attendance: 383

Individual Stats
Kidderminster	Shots		Fouls		Off.	v	Solihull	Shots		Fouls		Off.
	On	Off	For	Ag				On	Off	For	Ag
John Danby 7	0(6)	0	0	0	0	[1]	Brendan Murphy 6	0(4)	0	0	1	0
Ben Davies 5	0	0	0	1	0	[2]	Ian Cooper 5	0	0	0	2	0
Sam Shilton 5	0	0	0	3	0	[3]	Jamie Campbell 6	1(1)	0	2	0	0
Michael Keegan 6	0	2	1	3	0	[4]	Matt Lewis 5	0	0	0	1	0
Inderpaul Khela 5	0	0	1	1	0	[5]	Nick Amos 6	0	0	2	1	0
Lee Ayres 5	0	0	2	4	0	[6]	Craig Dutton 5	0	0	1	1	0
Peter Faulds 7	2(1)	1	0	0	0	[7]	Andy Lovelock 5	0	0	0	1	0
Matt Lewis 6	2	2	4	1	2	[8]	Naveed Arshad	0	3	2	1	1
Andy Corbett 6	2(2)	2	4	2	0	[9]	Derek Hall 5	1(1)	2	1	0	1
Andy Ducros 5	0	1	2	0	0	[10]	Jason Smith 6	0	0	3	2	0
Daire Doyle 7	1(1)	2	0	2	1	[11]	Paul Pippard 5	0	0	0	1	1
Lee Downs 5	0	1	0	0	0	[12]	Chris Smith 6	1(1)	1	3	2	0
Scott Lower 5	0	0	0	0	0	[14]	Simon Hollis 7	3(2)	0	2	1	0
Richard Langford 5	0	0	0	1	1	[15]	Tom Davies
Ashley Pringle						[16]	Michael Hollis 5	1(1)	0	1	0	0
Nick Heath						[17]	David Busst

Team Stats
	Fouls Conceded	Offside	Corners	Shots On	Shots off
Kidderminster	18	4	2	7	11
Solihull	14	3	8	7	6

GOALS
Kidderminster			Solihull
14	Peter Faulds	Lewis made a run into the penalty area on the left and pulled the ball back to Faulds who tucked his shot under Murphy.	48	Simon Hollis	The ball was played over from the left to Hollis on the right who made a good turn before firing his shot into the far corner.
111	Matt Lewis	Doyle's pass through the inside left channel opened up the defence allowing Lewis to run through before hitting a shot just inside the near post.

FORMATIONS
Kidderminster: (Red/Red/Red) 1 2-5-6-3 7-4-11 8-9-10	Solihull: (Yellow/Blue/Blue) 1 2-5-4-3 7-10-6-11 8-9

SUBSTITUTIONS
Kidderminster				Solihull
66	Downs	Faulds	Downs to left central midfield, Corbett to left midfeld, Doyle to right midfield, Keegan to right central midfield. Now 4-4-2.	37	S.Hollis	Lovelock	S.Hollis to right midfield.
66	Langford	Ducros	Langford to striker.	46	C.Smith	Hall	C.Smith to striker.
86	Lower	Davies	Lower to right back.	94	M.Hollis	Pippard	M.Hollis to striker, Arshad to left midfield.

BOOKINGS
Kidderminster		Solihull
Davies 61 Foul Shilton 84 Foul		Amos 95 Dissent
Referee: S.J.Dorr

Match Report by St@tto

A makeshift Harriers side scraped a narrow victory over Solihull to reach the Worcestershire Senior Cup Final for the fourth time in five seasons.

A dour first half saw Harriers dominate possession and create a string of chances with Peter Faulds scoring his first senior goal following good work by Matt Lewis although former Harriers keeper Brendan Murphy will be unhappy that he allowed the ball to go underneath him after getting a hand to it. At the other end, John Danby pulled off a fine save to deny Derek Hall from close range. Murphy redeemed himself later in the half with a double save first from Andy Corbett and then Faulds' follow-up.

Solihull grabbed an equaliser soon after the interval when Simon Hollis drilled a shot past the dive of John Danby. The game began to deteriorate and extra-time beckoned a long time before the half was over, Harriers created fewer chances and Danby was called upon to keep the visitors at bay first from Jamie Campbell and later from Simon Hollis. Harriers' only real chance of the second half was a shot from Corbett that Murphy saved.

In extra-time Harriers began to exert their superiority as tiredness began to set in to the visitors, but still they didn't trouble Murphy. Eventually the winner came, however, Daire Doyle who had faded out of the game after a good first half slipped the ball through the Borough defence to Matt Lewis who rifled his shot inside the near post for his first senior goal.