St@tto's Match Report - Torquay United v Kidderminster Harriers 19 November 2002

Torquay United 2(2) v (0)2 Kidderminster Harriers

League Division 3 - Plainmoor - 19 November 2002

Attendance: 2629

Individual Stats
Torquay	Shots		Fouls		Off.	v	Kidderminster	Shots		Fouls		Off.
	On	Off	For	Ag				On	Off	For	Ag
Arjan van Heusden 6	0(2)	0	0	0	0	[29/1]	Stuart Brock 6	0(4)	0	0	0	0
Matt Hockley 5	0	0	0	0	0	[14/6]	Adie Smith 6	1(1)	1	1	1	0
David Woozley 5	1(1)	1	1	1	0	[3/11]	Sam Shilton 5	0	2	1	0	0
Reuben Hazell 5	0	0	1	0	0	[2/26]	Kenny Coleman 5	0	0	2	0	0
Lee Canoville 5	0	0	0	0	0	[12/16]	Lee Ayres 5	0	0	1	0	0
Alex Russell 6	1	0	2	1	0	[6/5]	Craig Hinton 6	0	0	0	2	0
Tony Bedeau 6	0	0	1	0	1	[9/7]	Dean Bennett 6	0	1	0	4	0
Jason Fowler 5	1(1)	2	0	2	0	[8/4]	Danny Williams 6	0	0	1	1	0
Martin Gritton 6	1	3	1	2	3	[20/9]	Drewe Broughton 5	0	0	0	1	1
David Graham 6	2(2)	0	2	0	0	[10/12]	Bo Henriksen 7	2(1)	4	1	0	1
Kevin Hill 5	0	0	1	2	0	[11/21]	Sean Flynn 5	1(1)	1	0	2	0
Troy Douglin						[17/2]	Abdou Sall
Kain Bond						[18/10]	Ian Foster
Jonathan Osei-Kuffour						[19/18]	Ian Joy 5	0	0	0	0	0
Darren Dunning 5	0	0	2	0	0	[22/27]	Andy Bishop 8	2(1)	0	0	1	0
Jamie Atwell 5	0(2)	0	0	0	0	[21/13]	John Danby

Team Stats
	Fouls Conceded	Offside	Corners	Shots On	Shots off
Torquay	8	4	7	6	6
Kidderminster	12	2	8	6	9

GOALS
Torquay			Kidderminster
23	Kenny Coleman (OG)	Russell latched on to a defence splitting pass but was forced wide by Ayres, his shot deflected off both Ayres and Coleman to deceive Brock.	60	Bo Henriksen	Attwell only parried Bishop's long-range shot and Henriksen was quickest to react to turn in the loose ball.
32	Martin Gritton	Bedeau's deep right wing cross found Graham beyonf the far post, his shot was saved by Brock but Gritton followed up to net the rebound.	72	Andy Bishop	Smith crossed from the right and Bishop rose at the far post to head bravely past Attwell.

FORMATIONS

Torquay
		van Heusden
Hockley	Hazell		Canoville	Woozley

Bedeau	Fowler		Russell	Hill

	Gritton		Graham

Kidderminster
		Brock
	Coleman	Ayres	Hinton
Smith				Shilton
	Smith	Williams	Flynn

	Broughton		Henriksen

SUBSTITUTIONS
Torquay				Kidderminster
46	Attwell	van Heusden	Attwell to goalkeeper.	54	Bishop	Coleman	Bishop to striker, Smith to right central defender, Bennett to right midfield, Williams to right central midfield, Shilton to left midfield. Now 3-4-3.
51	Dunning	Canoville	Dunning to left midfield, Hill to left back, Woozley to left central defender.	71	Foster	Broughton	Foster to striker.
				85	Joy	Henriksen	Joy to left back, Ayres to right central defender, Smith to right back. Now 4-4-2.

BOOKINGS
Torquay		Kidderminster

Referee: G.Hegley

Match Report by St@tto

Harriers made hard work for themselves again, falling two goals behind before staging a stirring comeback to save the game inspired by new loan signing Andy Bishop.

After recent poor first half performances Harriers started the game brightly and had the best of the opening exchanges. After 16 minutes Dean Bennett split the home defence open and put Bo Henriksen through but the Dane fired his shot narrowly wide of the far post, although Arjan van Heusden must have got his fingertips to it as Harriers were awarded a corner. A few minutes later and Torquay took the lead against the run of play, the Harriers defence was opened up by a precise pass that set up Alex Russell, he was forced wide by Lee Ayres but still managed to get a shot in which deflected first off Ayres and then off Kenny Coleman and into the net.

Harriers tried to ignore this set back and continued to try and play their normal game but were dealt a killer blow after 31 minutes when Martin Gritton doubled the advantage. A deep cross from the right by Tony Bedeau found top scorer David Graham lurking beyond the far post, his shot was saved by Stuart Brock but Gritton was following up to fire in the loose ball. It could have been worse five minutes later when Gritton had the ball i the net again but was offside.

Torquay made a crucial change at the break replacing van Heusden with former Harriers trialist Jamie Attwell. The new keeper looked very shaky and it seemed just a matter of time before Harriers, fresh from their half-time roasting, would be back in the game. Andy Bishop came on to make his debut in athree man Harriers front line and was soon in the action chasing and harrying the home defence and it was he who set up Harriers' first. He picked up the ball in the inside left channel and hit a stinging drive that Attwell could only parry downwards and Henriksen was quickest to react to turn in the rebound.

Twelve minutes later the youngster had completed the dream debut by netting the equaliser, hurling himself at Adie Smith's cross to head powerfully past the hapless keeper.

After 78 minutes Torquay again had a goal disallowed for offside, this time it was Bedeau who was the culprit. In the end Harriers appeared to settle for the point that they had gained, switching to a 4-4-2 formation but in stoppage time had to thank Brock for first turning Jason Fowlers forceful volley rounf the post and then from the resulting corner saving Woozley's header.