Forest Green | Shots |
Fouls |
Off. |
v | Kidderminster | Shots |
Fouls |
Off. |
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On |
Off |
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Terry Burton 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | [25/1] | Adam Bartlett 5 | 0(3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jonathan Smith 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | [11/21] | Keith Lowe 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Paul Stonehouse 6 | 2(2) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | [3] | Lee Baker 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mark Preece 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | [15/18] | Martin Riley 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Lee Ayres 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | [24/5] | Mark Creighton 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Lee Fowler 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | [16/20] | Dean Bennett 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Paul Lloyd 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | [27/16] | Martin Brittain 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Darren Jones 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | [4/26] | Chris McPhee 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
David Brown 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | [26/11] | Justin Richards 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Andy Mangan 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | [9] | Matt Barnes-Homer 6 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
Conal Platt 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | [10] | Russ Penn 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
Adriano Rigoglioso 5 | 1(1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | [7/6] | Luke Jones 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ben Ashford | [14/7] | Stefan Moore 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
Kaid Mohamed 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | [17/8] | Darryl Knights | |||||
Curtis McDonald | [18/14] | Brian Smikle 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Tom Pass | [31/25] | Michael Carr |
Fouls Conceded | Offside | Corners | Shots On | Shots off | |
Forest Green | 15 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
Kidderminster | 13 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
Forest Green | Kidderminster | ||||
40 | Conal Platt | 30 | Martin Brittain | ||
77 | Andy Mangan | 88 | Stefan Moore |
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Forest Green | Kidderminster | ||||||
46 | Smith to right central midfield, Jones to right back. | 41 | Richards | Now 4-4-1. | |||
56 | Mohamed | Lloyd | Mohamed to right midfield. | 74 | Smikle | Brittain | Smikle to left midfield, Penn to right midfield. |
85 | Rigoglioso | Brown | Rigoglioso to striker. | 82 | Riley | Now 3-4-1. | |
83 | Jones | Penn | Jones to left central defender, Creighton to central defender, Lowe to right central defender, McPhee to right midfield, Bennett to central midfield. | ||||
83 | Moore | Baker | Moore to striker. Now 3-3-2 |
Forest Green | Kidderminster | ||
Ayres 41 Foul | Riley 79 Foul Riley 82 Foul | Richards 41 Violent Conduct Riley 82 Persistent Misconduct | |
Referee: David Coote (Nottinghamshire) |
Controversy abounded as Harriers stretched their unbeaten run to ten games despite having two players, and the manager, sent-off in a stormy game at Forest Green. Playing against a team that they have not beaten on their own patch in a league game Harriers started brightly, continuing from where they had left of against Stevenage at the weekend. Martin Brittain, restored to the starting line-up after his match-winning performance coming on from the bench in the last game, went close to opening the scoring after just 15 minutes with a free-kick from 30 yards out that went narrowly wide of Terry Burton's right-hand post. The next quarter of an hour was quite scrappy but Harriers were on top, knocking the ball around quite well on a difficult, bumpy, surface. The opening goal came on the half-hour mark; Russ Penn picked up the ball on the left and made a urging run through the home defence before slipping it out wide to Matt Barnes-Homer who cut it back towards the far post where Brittain, arriving late, lashed it past Burton into the bottom corner of the net. The first controversial incident came six minutes before the break with Rovers' equaliser. The ball was knocked forward for Andy Mangan to chase, the Forest Green leading scorer appeared to be well offside as he broke clear but the flag stayed down, he was tackled as he shaped to shoot and the ball ran free to Conal Platt who was left with an easy tap in to level the scores. Shortly before the interval there was more controversy as Harriers were reduced to ten men; former Harrier Lee Ayres brutally hacked down Justin Richards who foolishly reacted to the challenge, thrusting his head towards Ayres' face. Ayres went down like a sack of spuds,exacerbating Richards' needless intervention and the referee had no choice but to send the striker off. Ayres received just a yellow card for his attack. After the break the home team went close to taking the lead when Darren Jones got free on the right but his low cross towards the near post was scooped over the bar by David Brown. The same player wasted another good chance in similar circumstances later on. At the other end Brittain played on Barnes-Homer on the left but his shot on the turn went wide of the far post. Fourteen minutes from the end Rovers took the lead; a needlessly conceded free-kick was taken quickly, knocked out to the left wing and crossed into the goalmouth where Mangan beat Adam Bartlett with a glancing header into the far corner. More controversy arrived soon afterwards; Martin Riley was shown the yellow card for a foul on Mangan on 79 minutes and then three minutes later Mangan threw himself to the floor in the most theatrical manner as he ran past Riley. Instead of booking Mangan for diving, however, referee David Coote was suckered by his antics and instead showed the card to Riley, sending-him off to join Richards. Manager Mark Yates was then ordered from the touchline as a result of his protestations. Harriers showed how great the team spirit and confidence levels are in the squad at the moment in the closing minutes; despite their two-man handicap they kept playing, looking for an equaliser, and two minutes from time they were rewarded. Mark Creighton's pass found substitute Stefan Moore who hit a speculative shot on the turn from quite wide on the left that deceived Burton in the home goal and crept inside the far post to spark an epic, bench-clearing, celebration that saw most of the players on the pitch, plus the subs and management team spring down to the touchline to pile on top of Moore. |
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