| Kidderminster Harriers 2(2) v (2)4 Reading |
| Friendly - Aggborough - 19 July 2002 |
| Attendance: 814 |
| Kidderminster | v | Reading |
| Stuart Brock | 1 | Phil Whitehead |
| Lee Ayres | 2 | Greame Murty |
| Ian Joy | 3 | John Salako |
| Abdou Sall | 4 | Kevin Watson |
| Craig Hinton | 5 | Adie Williams |
| Danny Williams | 6 | Adrian Viveash |
| Adie Smith | 7 | Sammy Igoe |
| Andy Ducros | 8 | James Harper |
| Drewe Broughton | 9 | Martin Butler |
| Bo Henriksen | 10 | Anthony Rougier |
| Sean Parrish | 11 | Nicky Forster |
| Dean Bennett | 12 | Andrew Hughes |
| John Danby | 13 | Jamie Ashdown |
| Scott Stamps | 14 | Jamie Cureton |
| Sam Shilton | 15 | Phil Parkinson |
| Daire Doyle | 16 | Joe Gamble |
| Andy Corbett | 17 | Bas Savage |
| Ian Foster | 18 | Alex Smith |
| GOALS | |||||
| Kidderminster | Reading | ||||
| 19 | Drewe Broughton | 12 | Nicky Forster | ||
| 30 | Bo Henriksen | 42 | Sean Parrish (og) | ||
| 53 | Martin Butler | ||||
| 58 | John Salako | ||||
| SUBSTITUTIONS | |||||||
| Kidderminster | Reading | ||||||
| 46 | Bennett | Ayres | 46 | Parkinson | Viveash | ||
| 46 | Foster | Henriksen | 54 | Smith | Forster | ||
| 68 | Shilton | Ducros | 70 | Gamble | Watson | ||
| 69 | Stamps | Joy | 70 | Hughes | Harper | ||
| 75 | Cureton | Butler | |||||
| 75 | Savage | Rougier | |||||
| BOOKINGS | |||
| Kidderminster | Reading | ||
| Referee: P.Rejer | |||
| Match Report by St@tto |
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Harriers suffered their first defeat of the summer in an entertaining match at
Aggborough but matched their higher division opponents for long spells.
Despite the visitors being two divisions higher in the league, it was Harriers who first showed and in the first seven minutes both Adie Smith and Andy Ducros had shots saved by Phil Whitehead. It was the visitors who took the lead, however, the lively Nicky Forster beat Lee Ayres at right back and lashed in a powerful shot from a narrow angle beating Stuart Brock at his near post. The lead only lasted a few minutes, Ayres floated a free kick over from the right and Drewe Broughton bundled the ball in from close range. The goal of the game on the half-hour mark gave Harriers the lead, Bo Henriksen in space on the right beat Whitehead with a dipping shot from the edge of the penalty area. Forster continued to give Ayres a torrid time and shortly before the interval he beat him to the by-line and pulled the ball back into the danger area where it spun off the leg of Sean Parrish and past Brock to bring the visitors level. After the break Ayres was replaced by Dean Bennett with Adie Smith dropping back to full back, but it was the centre of the Harriers defence that was now to cause problems. On 53 minutes the vistors sliced through the Harriers defence leaving Martin Butler clear on goal with an easy task to slot his shot past Brock. Five minutes later the Royals effectively killed off the game when Butler drew Brock out of his goal before squaring to John Salako who had an easy tap in. Harriers drifted out of the game for a spell, seemingly short of ideas for a way back into the match, but eventually got their second wind and finished quite strongly. Ian Foster, on for the injured Bo Henriksen, was lively on the left and was twice denied by Whitehead, but mostly Harriers created good openings without being able to apply the killer touch. |
