Kidderminster Harriers 2(1) v (0)0 AFC Wimbledon

COMP - VEN - DATE

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Individual Stats
Kidderminster
Shots
Fouls
Off.
v Wimbledon
Shots
Fouls
Off.
 
On
Off
For
Ag
     
On
Off
For
Ag
 
Danny Lewis 6 0(2) 0 1 0 0[1] Seb Brown 6 0(3) 0 0 0 0
Lee Vaughan 7 0 0 0 1 0 [2/7] Sam Hatton 5 0 1 2 2 0
Mike Williams 6 0 1 0 2 0 [3/22] Chris Bush 5 1(1) 0 0 0 0
Michael Briscoe 6 0 0 0 0 0 [16] Fraser Franks 5 0 0 2 1 0
Ollie Thorne 7 1(1) 0 1 4 0 [22/18] Ed Harris 5 0 0 1 3 0
Jack Byrne 7 0 1 4 2 0 [11/4] Steven Gregory 5 0 0 1 2 0
Dave Hankin 6 0 2 1 0 0 [7/2] Ryan Jackson 5 0 0 2 0 0
Keith Briggs 7 1(1) 5 0 2 0 [8/15] Sammy Moore 5 0 2 2 2(1h) 0
Chris McPhee 6 2 2 3 0 1 [10/9] Danny Kedwell 5 1(1) 0 1 3 0
Lee Morris 7 0 1 3 1 0 [9/23] Rashid Yussuff 5 0 1 1 1 0
Callum Gittings 7 0 0 0 1 0 [18/17] Mark Nwokeji 5 0 0 0 0 0
Tom Shaw 5 0 0 0 0 0 [5/3] Andre Blackman 5 0 0 1 0 0
Mark Albrighton      [6/8] Ricky Wellard 5 0 0 0 0 0
Matt Blair 5 0 0 0 0 0 [17/10] Jon Main 5 0 0 1 0 0
Marc Williams 7 2(1) 0 0 1 1 [39/21] Reece Jones     
Andy Stevens      [33/20] Jack Turner     
Team Stats
  Fouls Conceded Offside Corners Shots On Shots off
Kidderminster 14 2 7 6 12
Wimbledon 14 0 1 2 4
GOALS
Kidderminster Wimbledon
44 Chris McPhee  
84 Marc Williams   
Formations
Kidderminster
   Lewis  
Vaughan Briscoe   Thorne Mi. Williams
     
Hankin Briggs  Byrne Gittings
     
  McPhee  Morris 
Wimbledon
   Brown  
Hatton Franks  Harris Bush
     
  Moore  Gregory 
Jackson  Yussuff  Nwokeji
   Kedwell  
SUBSTITUTIONS
Kidderminster Wimbledon
74 Blair Hankin Blair to right midfield. 46   Jackson to right midfield, Yussuff to left midfield, Nwokeji to striker.  Now 4-4-2)
78 Ma. Williams Morris Marc Williams to striker. 61 Blackman Yussuff Blackman to left midfield.
90+2 Shaw Gittings Shaw to left midfield. 67 Main Nwokeji Main to striker.
     68 Wellard Bush Wellard to left midfield, Blackman to left back.
BOOKINGS
Kidderminster Wimbledon
Thorne 90 Foul  Franks 40 Foul
Harris 64 Foul
 
Referee: Darren Handley (Manchester)
Match Report by St@tto

A goal in each half enabled Harriers to see of the challenge of league leaders Wimbledon; lift them six places up the league to 11th and stretch their unbeaten run to six games.

Harriers, unchanged from the side that had drawn at Fleetwood in midweek, gave their best performance of the season so far although in the first half the visitors enjoyed the greater of possession.  Despite not seeing as much of the ball as Wimbledon Harriers looked the far more dangerous team throughout and at the other end kept the leagues' leading scorer Danny Kedwell quiet.

Harriers could have taken an early lead when Dave Hankin's corner from the right was headed back at the far post by Ollie Thorne to Lee Morris who headed over.  Shortly afterwards a good interception by Jack Byrne allowed him to set Morris away on the right, he got to the byline and pulled the ball back to the near post and Chris McPhee but it was well cut out by Dons keeper Seb Brown.

Ten minutes before the break the impressive Morris fed the ball to Gittings on the left wing, his cross found skipper Keith Briggs but he headed wide of the near post.  A Briggs free-kick, clearly planned on the training ground, found Lee Vaughan on the right wing whose cross was headed over by McPhee.  The deadlock was broken a minute before the interval; Vaughan's throw from the right found Morris who surged into the penalty area and slipped the ball inside to McPhee who tucked it past Brown for his third goal of the season.

Harriers should have doubled their lead eight minutes after the break; Morris won the ball and found Briggs whose long pass through the inside right channel set Hankin clear but he dragged his shot wide of the far post.  Just before the hour mark Briggs sent a 25-yard free-kick over the wall and the crossbar as Harriers piled on the pressure in search of a second goal.

With twenty minutes left Danny Lewis was finally called into action in the Harriers goal; a Ryan Jackson cross from deep on the right found Kedwell who headed tamely straight at the keeper.  Another Briggs free-kick from deep found Thorne beyond Brown's right-hand post, the big defender got up well to direct a header at goal that keeper got over to to tip around the post for a corner.

Harriers got their deserved second goal seven minutes from the end; a long ball over the top of the Wimbledon defence put substitute Marc Williams in on goal, his first shot was saved by Brown but the striker reacted quickest to chase down the loose ball and fired it back goalwards from a narrow angle with Fraser Franks' attempted clearance helping it over the line.  In stoppage time  Marc Williams then set up McPhee who shot across the face of goal from the left.