Rushden & Diamonds 0(0) v (0)1 Kidderminster Harriers

Football Conference National - Nene Park - 27 August 2007

Attendance: 1653

Individual Stats
Rushden	Shots		Fouls		Off.	v	Kidderminster	Shots		Fouls		Off.
	On	Off	For	Ag				On	Off	For	Ag
Paul Bastock 6	0(4)	0	0	1	0	[1]	Scott Bevan 7	0(3)	0	2	0	0
Curtis Osano 5	0	2	2	0	0	[2]	Jeff Kenna 6	0	0	0	0	0
Dean Howell 5	0	0	0	0	0	[24/3]	Jonny Harkness 7	2(1, w)	1	1	2	0
Phil Gulliver 5	0	0	0	0	0	[4/6]	Stuart Whitehead 5	0	0	1	0	0
Chris Hope 5	0	1	1	1	0	[5]	Mark Creighton 6	1(1)	0	1	1	0
Wayne Hatswell 5	0	0	1	1	0	[6/17]	Andy Ferrell 6	0	0	3	4(1h)	0
Tom Shaw 5	1(1)	0	3	2	0	[16/10]	Russ Penn 7	2(1)	2	5	0	0
Jon Challinor 5	0	0	1	1	1	[7/4]	Gavin Hurren 6	0	0	0	0	0
Michael Rankine 5	1(1)	0	1	3	0	[14/9]	Justin Richards 5	1(1)	2	2	0	0
Simeon Jackson 5	1(1)	1	1	3	3	[10/8]	James Constable 6	1(w)	3	1	3	0
Martin Foster 5	0	0	0	7	0	[17/11]	Michael Blackwood 5	0	0	2	2(1h)	0
Paul Watson						[3/14]	Brian Smikle
Andy Burgess 5	0	0	0	0	1	[11/18]	Paul Bignot 5	0	0	0	0	0
Lee Tomlin 5	0	0	0	0	0	[15/21]	Matt Barnes-Homer
Ryan Semple 5	0	0	0	0	0	[26/23]	Iyseden Christie 5	0	1	1	0	0
Paul Nicholls						[12/13]	Dean Coleman

Team Stats
	Fouls Conceded	Offside	Corners	Shots On	Shots off
Rushden	19	5	8	3	4
Kidderminster	12	0	7	7	9

GOALS
Rushden		Kidderminster
			60	Russ Penn

formations

Rushden
		Bastock
	Gulliver	Hope	Hatswell
Osano				Howell
	Shaw	Challinor	Foster

	Rankine		Jackson

Kidderminster
		Bevan
Kenna	Whitehead		Creighton	Harkness

Penn	Hurren		Ferrell	Blackwood

	Richards		Constable

SUBSTITUTIONS
Rushden				Kidderminster
66	Burgess	Gulliver	Burgess to left midfield, Osano to right back, Howell to left back, Hope to right central defender, Challinor to right midfield. Now 4-4-2.	85	Christie	Richards	Christie to striker.
70	Tomlin	Challinor	Tomlin to right midfield.	90	Bignot	Constable	Bignot to right midfield, Penn to right central midfield, Hurren to central midfield. Now 4-5-1.
75	Semple	Hatswell	Semple to right midfield, Tomlin to striker, Osano to right central defender, Howell to left central defender, Hope to central defender. Now 3-4-3.

BOOKINGS
Rushden		Kidderminster
Bastock 45 Foul Howell 56 Dissent
Referee: Russell Fletcher (Derbyshire)

Match Report by St@tto
A solid performance by harriers saw them get back to winning ways with a single-goal victory over Rushden at Nene Park, the fifth game in a row that they have prevented Rushden from scoring in. Andy Ferrell returned to the starting line-up for the first time since the opening day of the season in place of Brian smikle in the only change to the team that had lost the previous game against Stevenage Borough. Rushden included former Harrier Wayne Hatswell. Harriers had the best of a scrappy first half after surviving an early scare when Chris Hope's free-kick went narrowly over the crossbar. The visitors created a string of chances; a deep cross from the left by Jonny Harkness found Russ Penn arriving late at the far post but he headed wide and a low cross by Michael Blackwood just evaded the run of an unmarked justin Richards. Gavin Hurren's pass through the inside-right channel picked out James Constable who sw his shot deflected onto the crossbar. At the other end Rushden were mostly kept at bay but did, on occasion, get through. Penn's missed clearance allowed Dean Howell to cross from the left for Simeon Jackson but he blasted over the bar from inside the penalty area. Harriers continued to create and Richards went close with a shot that arrowed across the face of goal after he had created the space for himself to get the shot in on the edge of the penalty area. Shortly before the break Harkness drew a save from Paul Bastock in the home goal with a low free-kick from 20 yards out; moments later he had another opportunity from slightly further from goal and was unfortunate to see his shot drop just over the bar. Early in the second half Harkness got even closer, his 25-yard free-kick beat the wall and Bastock and then cannoned back off the bar. Rushden were kept out of the game even more in the second period and their best chances were restricted to long-range efforts such as tom Shaw's 30-yarder straight at Scott Bevan after Stuart Whitehead had made a poor clearance. Harriers took the lead on the hour; Harkness dinked the ball over the rushden wing-back Curtis Osano for constable who sent over a fantastic cross to the far post where Penn had ghosted in and met the ball with a diving header to register his first goal of the season. Richards could have doubled the advantage a couple of minutes later when he found space in the penalty area but headed Blackwood's cross straight at Bastock. Harriers had their tails up now and came at Rushden even more, Richards missed another good chance after a sweeping move that had seen Penn carry the ball forward on the right before slipping it inside to Constable who helped it on to the opposite flank for Richards who cut in and shot shot wide of the far post. For all of the possession, however, Harriers were not able to build upon their lead and had to be content with just a single-goal victory and their first clean sheet of the season.