Kidderminster | Shots |
Fouls |
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Fouls |
Off. |
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Dean Coleman 8 | 0(7) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | [13/1] | Kevin Poole 5 | 0(6) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Paul Bignot 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | [18/17] | John Brayford 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Andy Ferrell 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | [17/25] | Paul Hurst 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Gavin Hurren 6 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | [4/3] | Aaron Webster 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Mark Creighton 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | [5] | Tony James 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dean Bennett 7 | 1(1) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | [19/6] | John McGrath 6 | 2(2) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Russ Penn 6 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2(1h) | 0 | [10/2] | Andy Corbett 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Darryl Knights 9 | 5(3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | [24] | Michael Simpson 6 | 1(1) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Iyseden Christie 7 | 3(1) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | [23/14] | Shaun Harrad 6 | 2(1) | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Matt Barnes-Homer 6 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | [21/10] | Daryl Clare 6 | 2(2) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Simon Russell 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | [7/11] | Keith Gilroy 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Jonny Harkness 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | [3/4] | Mark Greaves 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Brian Smikle 6 | 1(1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | [14/7] | Darren Stride | |||||
Michael McGrath 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | [15/8] | Marc Goodfellow 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Neil Howarth | [20/31] | Matt Williams 5 | 1(1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Chris MacKenzie | [1/30] | Saul Deeney |
Fouls Conceded | Offside | Corners | Shots On | Shots off | |
Kidderminster | 10 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 6 |
Burton | 8 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 |
Kidderminster | Burton | ||||
18 | Darryl Knights | 79 | Shaun Harrad | ||
21 | Iyseden Christie | ||||
42 | Darryl Knights | ||||
89 | Gavin Hurren |
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Kidderminster | Burton | ||||||
63 | Smikle | Christie | Smikle to right midfield, Penn to right central midfield, Bennett to left central midfield, Knights to striker. Now 4-4-2. | 46 | Goodfellow | Corbett | Goodfellow to right midfield. |
81 | McGrath | Russell | McGrath to left midfield. | 62 | Williams | Clare | Williams to striker. |
90+ | Harkness | Ferrell | Harkness to left back. | 68 | Greaves | Gilroy | Greaves to left midfield. |
73 | Greaves | Goodfellow to left midfield, Williams to right midfield. Now 4-4-1. |
Kidderminster | Burton | ||
Bignot 90+ Foul | |||
Referee: Paul Tierney (Lancashire) |
The curtain came down on another season of football at Aggborough with Harriers giving one of their most scintillating displays of the campaign to destroy play-off bound Burton Albion. The visitors arrived at Aggborough in buoyant mood knowing that a win would clinch their place in the end-of-season play-offs with a game to spare. Their hopes were seriously dented as they were blown away by a Harriers side that would have been too hot to handle for any side in the league. The upside for The Brewers, however, was that results elsewhere meant that their play-off spot was confirmed. Mark Yates made two changes to the Harriers team that had lost at Weymouth, Dean Coleman and Darryl Knights returning to the starting line-up with Chris MacKenzie and Alex Jeannin dropping out. In fact, Knights was the only on-loan player in the 16. After an opening period where both sides were feeling each other out Harriers took the lead after 18 minutes; Matt Barnes-Homer dispossessed Paul Hurst near the byline on the right and broke into the penalty area, his cross was blocked but looped up to Knights who headed it back into the net. At the other end Albion's best chance of the half came shortly afterwards, Daryl Clare's 25-yard free-kick beat the wall but flew straight into Coleman's arms. Within seconds Harriers had doubled their advantage; Barnes-Homer was again the instigator with a surging run through the inside-right channel before crossing low to the far post, just beyond the reach of Kevin Poole in the Brewers' goal, where Iyseden Christie was unmarked and able to fire in his 18th goal of the season. Christie could have made it 19 for the season after 27 minutes, Simon Russell's glorious deep cross from the left was nipped away from the leading-scorer's head by a timely intervention by Aaron Webster. The third goal did arrive, however, four minutes before the interval; Russ Penn's pass split the defence open, Christie's dummy let in Knight's who slotted his shot inside the near post. After the interval Burton came to life and threw more forward in an attempt to get back into the game. Four minutes after the break Coleman made a good save to palm away Clare's header from a Marc Goodfellow cross and was relieved to see Shaun Harrad blast the loose ball over the bar. Midway through the half a long ball through the inside left channel set Knights free but his angled shot to the far post was deflected away for a corner and he was denied his hat-trick. Shortly afterwards Dean Bennett opened up the visitors again with a crossfield pass that put in Barnes-Homer but under pressure from his marker he fired his shot over the bar. Burton were reduced to ten men with 18 minutes left when substitute Mark Greaves was lost to injury after they had used all of their subs. Harriers had also lost a player to injury, Christie taken off just past the hour mark, but his replacement, Brian Smikle, managed to cause the shaky visiting defence problems. He set up a great chance for Knights to complete his hat-trick but the striker, unmarked in the penalty area, shot weakly at Poole. Twelve minutes from time Burton gave themselves a glimmer of hope when Michael Simpson's lofted pass into the penalty area fell to Harrad who lashed the ball past Coleman. That was all that Burton could muster, however, and it was Harriers who rounded off the scoring, Gavin Hurren marking his 100th appearance in a Harriers shirt by heading in Knights' corner in the last minute. |
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