Kidderminster Harriers 0(0) v (1)1 Barrow

Football Conference National - Aggborough - 4 October 2008

Attendance: 1686

Individual Stats
Kidderminster
Shots
Fouls
Off.
v Barrow
Shots
Fouls
Off.
 
On
Off
For
Ag
   
On
Off
For
Ag
 
Adam Bartlett 6 0(3) 0 0 0 0 [1/21] Alan Martin 7 0(4) 0 2 0 0
Keith Lowe 5 0 3 3 0 0 [21/6] Matt Henney 5 0 0 0 0 0
Lee Baker 5 0 0 1 0 0 [3/4] Paul Jones 6 0 0 0 1 0
Luke Jones 5 0 0 0 0 0 [6/5] Steve McNulty 5 0 0 0 1(h) 0
Mark Creighton 5 0 0 5 4 0 [5/18] Mike Pearson 5 0 0 0 1 0
Andy Ferrell 5 0 2 2 1 0 [4/19] Ashley Winn 6 2(2) 1 1 0 0
Martin Brittain 5 0 0 2 2 0 [16/7] Andy Bond 5 0 1 0 1 0
Russ Penn 5 0 0 2 1 0 [10/8] Mark Boyd 6 1 0 0 2 0
Justin Richards 6 2(1w) 1 1 0 2 [11/17] Lee Hunt 5 0 0 1 5 1
Matt Barnes-Homer 6 2(2) 1 0 1 0 [9/23] David Brown 5 0 0 2 3 1
Brian Smikle 6 0 1 0 0 0 [14/20] Carlos Logan 5 0 1 3 3 0
Darryl Knights 6 2(2) 0 1 0 0 [8/10] Nick Rogan 5 0 0 0 2 0
David McDermott 5 0 1 1 0 0 [17/11] Paul Brown     
Dean Bennett      [20/12] Paul Tait 5 1(1) 0 0 1 0
Neil MacKenzie 6 0 2 1 0 0 [22/14] Darren Sheridan     
Dean Coleman      [12/22] Paul Black     
Team Stats
 Fouls ConcededOffsideCornersShots OnShots off
Kidderminster 9 2 12 6 11
Barrow 20 2 4 4 3
GOALS
KidderminsterBarrow
    5 Mark Boyd 
formations
Kidderminster
   Bartlett  
Lowe Jones  Creighton Baker
     
Brittain Penn  Ferrell Smikle
     
  Richards  Barnes-Homer 
Barrow
   Martin  
Henney McNulty  Pearson Jones
     
Bond Boyd  Winn Logan
     
  Hunt  D. Brown 
SUBSTITUTIONS
Kidderminster Barrow
46 Knights Brittain Knights to attacking midfield. 62 Rogan Hunt Rogan to striker.
46 MacKenzie Smikle MacKenzie to defensive midfield. 89 Tait D. Brown Tait to striker.
71 McDermott Baker McDermott to left central midfield, Ferrell to left back.    
BOOKINGS
Kidderminster Barrow
Brittain 23 Dissent
Creighton 90+ Foul
  Logan 20 Foul
Bond 74 Time Wasting
D. Brown 77 Foul
Martin 82 Time Wasting
 
Referee: Steve Cummins (Cheshire)
Match Report by St@tto

Harriers suffered their first home of the season, and their first since February, following a lacklustre performance against a Barrow side who ended their own run of four straight defeats.

Unchanged yet again, fielding the same starting line-up for the eighth game in a row, Harriers could have got off to an excellent start in the first minute; Justin Richards made a good break on the left, getting into the penalty area before crossing low for Brian Smikle who fired over the bar.

Harriers were to rue that miss as the visitors took the lead in the fifth minute; Mark boyd's free-kick from 20 yards out beat the wall and squirmed through Adam Bartlett's grasp into the back of the net.  The stiff breeze didn't help the quality of the game, although it should have helped Harriers who had it at their backs in the first half, nor did the play of the visitors who were determined to arrest the current slump and defended deep and often in great numbers.  The game became very scrappy and there was next to no goalmouth action; the closest Harriers came to leveling the scores was in stoppage time when they forced a series of corners from one of which Martin Brittain's cross found the head of Luke Jones but he was unable to guide his header down and it flew over the bar.

At the interval Harriers made changes, sacrificing wide men Brittain - who had been booked and was not having the best of games - and Brian Smikle and replacing them with Darryl Knights and Neil MacKenzie and switching to a diamond formation in the midfield.  The substitutes injected a little more life into Harriers but The Reds were still lacklustre and huffed and puffed until midway through the half when Keith Lowe went close with a 20-yard effort.

Barrow didn't spend the whole half defending; Luke Jones was forced into a last-ditch block to keep the visitors at bay and when the loose ball ran to Ashley Winn Bartlett made a good save to go some way towards making up for his earlier error.  The closest that Harriers came to leveling the scores was a Richards free-kick from 20 yards out that hit the crossbar.  Late on Richards crossed from the left for Knights who could only direct his header straight at Alan Martin in the Barrow goal; it was not to be Harriers' day.