Kidderminster | Shots |
Fouls |
Off. |
v | Fleetwood | Shots |
Fouls |
Off. |
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On |
Off |
For |
Ag |
On |
Off |
For |
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Danny Lewis | [1] | Danny Hurst | ||||||||||
Lee Vaughan | [2] | Shaun Beeley | ||||||||||
Mike Williams | [3/12] | Junior Brown | ||||||||||
Michael Briscoe | [16/5] | Steve McNulty | ||||||||||
Mark Albrighton | [6/29] | Sean Gregan | ||||||||||
Keith Briggs | [8/4] | Anthony Barry | ||||||||||
Matty Blair | [17/11] | Jamie Mullan | ||||||||||
Jack Byrne | [11/18] | Jamie McGuire | ||||||||||
Lee Morris | [9/19] | Gareth Seddon | ||||||||||
Chris McPhee | [10/27] | George Donnelly | ||||||||||
Callum Gittings | [18/7] | Sean Clancy | ||||||||||
Tom Shaw | [5/8] | Alex-Rae Harvey | ||||||||||
Nick Wright | [14/15] | Lee Thorpe | ||||||||||
Jamille Matt | [20/24] | Keigan Parker | ||||||||||
Sean Canham | [23/26] | Peter Cavanagh | ||||||||||
Andy Stevens | [33/16] | Scott Davies |
Fouls Conceded | Offside | Corners | Shots On | Shots off | |
Kidderminster | 10 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 5 |
Fleetwood | 12 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 6 |
Kidderminster | Fleetwood | ||
53 | Jack Byrne | 39 | Jamie Mullan |
57 | Jack Byrne |
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Kidderminster | Fleetwood | ||||||
70 | Shaw | Briggs | Shaw to left central midfield. | 73 | Parker | Clancy | Parker to right midfield, Mullan to left midfield. |
88 | Wright | Morris | Wright to striker. | 90+1 | Thorpe | Seddon | Thorpe to striker. |
90+3 | Donnelly | Now 4-4-1. |
Kidderminster | Fleetwood | ||
McPhee 45 Dissent | Donnelly 28 Foul McNulty 50 Foul Donnelly 90+3 Foul |
Donnelly 90+3 Persistent Misconduct | |
Referee: Rob Merchant (Staffordshire) |
Harriers pulled off an excellent victory to keep their play-off hopes alive, beating Fleetwood to close the gap on them to just one point with two games remaining. Lee Morris and Jack Byrne returned to the starting line-up, the only changes from the side that lost to Darlington three days earlier, as Steve Burr switched to a more conventional 4-4-2 formation. After a series of corners - three at each end - in the first ten minutes the game took a while to settle down, both sides a little tentative in the opening exchanges. The visitors were the first to go close, Gareth Seddon bringing a save from Danny Lewis with a header from Sean Clancy's corner. Fleetwood created the better chances in the first half; Seddon went close again ten minutes before the break firing across the face of goal after being set up by Jamie McGuire. On 39 minutes Town took the lead; the ball ricocheted into the penalty area from Anthony Barry's pass, Lee Vaughan attempted a clearance that went across the penalty area straight to Jamie Mullan on the opposite flank who had plenty of time to pick his spot and plant the ball past Lewis. The atmosphere inside Aggborough was already electric when Harriers got themselves back into the game seven minutes after the break and lifted the noise level even further; a long ball forward was knocked down by Matt Blair to Jack Byrne, Byrne hit a shot from beyond 25 yards out that took a deflection and looped over Danny Hurst to level the scores. The turning point came on 55 minutes; Mark Albrighton was caught out by George Donnelly who broke into the the penalty area but his goal bound shot was deflected away for a corner by Lewis' outstretched leg. Harriers cleared the corner, attacked and won a corner of their own. Callum Gittings' corner from the left was met by the head of Byrne and guided into the far corner off the goal, his seventh strike of the season; the roof was lifted off Aggborough as Harriers took the lead. On the hour Harriers should have stretched their lead; Keith Briggs made a strong run to the byline on the right and pulled the ball back to Morris; his shot was somehow cleared off the line by Shaun Beeley, deflecting it up over the bar for a corner. Shortly afterwards Blair's pass set Morris clear but just as he was about to shoot he was halted by a perfectly timed tackle from Steve McNulty. Late on Vaughan made up for his earlier error with an excellent block, getting his body in the way of Donnelly's shot. In stoppage time Harriers could have made the game safe when Town messed up an attempted short goal kick, Sean Gregan gifting the ball straight to Nick Wright who took the ball forward into the penalty area and fired wide of the far post. Even further into stoppage time Fleetwood were reduced to ten men when Donnelly was shown his second yellow card. |
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