Kidderminster Harriers 1(1) v (1)2 York City
Football League Division 3 - Aggborough - 14 December 2002
Attendance: 2304

 

Individual Stats
KidderminsterShotsFoulsOff.vYorkShotsFoulsOff.
 OnOffForAg   OnOffForAg 
Stuart Brock 60(4)0000[1]Alan Fettis 60(4)0000
Dean Bennett 61(1)0120[7/2]Darren Edmondson 500020
Sam Shilton 701000[11]Graham Potter 500130
Kenny Coleman 600020[26/5]Jonathan Parkin 51(1)0410
Lee Ayres 511520[16/7]Chris Brass 500000
Craig Hinton 500200[5/6]Gary Hobson 500000
Sean Flynn 601120[21/9]Lee Nogan 73(2)0210
JJ Melligan 51(1)1413[24/16]Stephen Brackstone 610010
Drewe Broughton 401032[9/26]Michael Reddy 51(1)0138
Andy Bishop 74(2)7312[27/10]Peter Duffield 50043(1h)3
Sean Parrish 610101[8]Lee Bullock 601101
Ian Foster     [10/3]Tom Cowan 500020
Bo Henriksen     [12/4]Richard Cooper     
Andy Ducros     [14/15]Leigh Wood 500020
Ian Joy     [18/17]Christian Fox 500010
John Danby     [13/21]Jon Collinson     
Team Stats
  Fouls Conceded Offside Corners Shots On Shots off
Kidderminster 1386812
York 1912761
GOALS
KidderminsterYork
40 Andy Bishop Ayres' pass through the inside right channel split the defence allowing Bishop to slot his shot inside the far post. 22 Stephen Brackstone Rifled a low 20 yard shot to Brock's right after Duffield had laid Reddy's low cross from the left back to him.
      86 Lee Nogan Took advantage of sloppy defending to chip the ball from Cowan's pass over Brock.
FORMATIONS
Kidderminster
  Brock  
 ColemanAyresHinton 
Bennett   Shilton
 MelliganFlynnParrish 
     
 Broughton Bishop 
York
  Fettis  
 ParkinBrassHobson 
Edmondson   Potter
 Brackstone Bullock 
  Nogan  
 Reddy Duffield 
SUBSTITUTIONS
KidderminsterYork
39     Now 5-3-1. 8 Wood Brass Wood to central defender.
        76 Cowan Hobson Cowan to left central defender.
        76 Fox Brackstone Fox to left central midfield, Bullock to right central midfield.
BOOKINGS
KidderminsterYork
Broughton 17 Foul
Ayres 28 Foul
Bishop 81 Dissent
Coleman 93 Foul
Broughton 39 Violent Conduct Bullock 53 Dissent
Wood 65 Foul
Cowan 78 Foul
Fox 88 Foul
Reddy 89 Dissent
 
Referee: P.Taylor
Match Report by St@tto
Kidderminster will consider themselves very unfortunate to have ended this game empty handed after coming from behind with only ten men and then dominating the second half before falling to a late breakaway goal.
 
The visitors gave Harriers an early scare when Lee Nogan got free on the left and his snap shot was well saved by Stuart Brock with Craig Hinton clearing the loose ball under pressure from Peter Duffield.  Drewe Broughton was the first of nine names to go into referee Paul Taylor's notebook for a foul on Jonathan Parkin after 17 minutes only moments after he had had a lecture for a similar offence, he had also clashed with Chris Brass after seven minutes causing the York defender to be taken off with a suspected fracured cheekbone.
 
Soon afterwards York took the lead, while JJ Melligan was off the field having been told to remove his black cycling shorts, Duffield received the ball at the far post from a low Michael Reddy cross and laid it back into the path of Stephen Brackstone who rifled a low shot from 20 yards into the bottom corner of the net.  Lee Ayres had his name taken for a foul on Reddy when the on-loan striker was through on goal, one of a number of erratic decisions by the referee - if Ayres was the last man and it was a foul then he ought to have been sent off.
 
Andy Bishop had the best chance of the half for Harriers nine minutes before the interval, Dean Bennett crossed low from the right to the unmarked striker at the far post who ballooned his shot over the crossbar.  Two minutes later Harriers were reduced to ten men when Broughton was shown the red card after catching Parkin in the face with his elbow.  The setback seemed to fire Harriers and within seconds they were level.  Ayres' pass split the defence open and Bishop raced onto it and slotted a shot past Alan Fettis and inside the far post.
 
After the break Kidderminster began to dominate and created a string of chances with Bishop in particular revelling in the extra space created by the loss of Broughton.  Just after the hour Bishop knocked the ball down for JJ Melligan who held off the challenge of his marker but shot weakly at Fettis.  The York defending became more and more desperate as Harriers attacked, Sean Parrish saw his goal bound shot blocked by Gary Hobson, from the resulting corner Bishop's header was cleared off the line by Lee Bullock and in the dying minutes Ayres had a header cleared off the line by Darren Edmondson.
 
With Harriers throwing men forward in search of a winner they were caught out by a rare York attack with four minutes left, Nogan capitalising on sloppy defending to chip the ball over Brock from Tom Cowan's pass to win the game.

 

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