Rushden & Diamonds 2(1) v (0)1 Kidderminster Harriers
FA Cup First Round Replay - Nene Park - 26 November 2002
Attendance: 3391

 

Individual Stats
Rushden Shots Fouls Off. v Kidderminster Shots Fouls Off.
 OnOffForAg   OnOffForAg 
Billy Turley 60(4)0100[1]Stuart Brock 50(2)0000
Marcus Bignot 500210[14/6]Adie Smith 500110
Paul Underwood 501030[3/11]Sam Shilton 500220
Mark Peters 500010[5/26]Kenny Coleman 600100
Barry Hunter 500400[4/16]Lee Ayres 600110
Gary Mills 502120[15/5]Craig Hinton 500110
Paul Hall 611310[22/7]Dean Bennett 61(1)0120
Stuart Wardley 72(1)1120[7/4]Danny Williams 500200
Duane Darby 500011[10/9]Drewe Broughton 62(1)3031
Robert Duffy 62(1)2124[21/12]Bo Henriksen 72(2)2231
Stuart Gray 500101[12/8]Sean Parrish 601241
David Bell 502200[18/10]Ian Foster 500000
Daniel Talbot     [19/15]Daire Doyle 500110
John Dempster     [24/18]Ian Joy 501000
Onandi Lowe 51(w)1211[31/23]Inderpaul Khela     
Adam Sollitt     [16/13]John Danby     
Team Stats
  Fouls Conceded Offside Corners Shots On Shots off
Rushden1475610
Kidderminster1931157
GOALS
Rushden Kidderminster
36 Robert Duffy Underwood crossed from the left to Duffy at the far post who was able to head in unmarked. 73 Drewe Broughton Rose at the far post to head in Coleman's deep right wing cross.
67 Stuart Wardley Bignot threaded a pass through the Harriers defence into the path of Wardley who slotted his shot coolly past Brock.      
FORMATIONS
Rushden
  Turley  
BignotPeters   HunterUnderwood
       
HallWardley   MillsGray
       
 Darby   Duffy 
Kidderminster
  Brock  
 Coleman Ayres Hinton 
Smith     Shilton
 Bennett Williams Parrish 
       
 Broughton   Henriksen 
SUBSTITUTIONS
Rushden Kidderminster
46 Lowe Darby Lowe to striker. 68 Foster Bennett Foster to striker, Smith to right midfield, Shilton to left midfield, Williams to right central midfield.  Now 3-4-3.
51 Bell Gray Bell to left midfield. 83 Doyle Williams Doyle to right central midfield.
        87 Joy Shilton Joy to left midfield.
BOOKINGS
Rushden Kidderminster
Lowe 75 Foul
Duffy 90+ Encroaching at Free-Kick
  Hinton 82 Foul
Henriksen 90+ Unsporting Behaviour
 
Referee: C.Penton
Match Report by St@tto
Harriers crashed out of the FA Cup again after a disappointing game at Nene Park which saw them give themselves an uphill task by going two goals behind again.
 
For the first half hour or so Harriers gave one of their best first half performances in recent weeks and were comfortably in control of the game until the home side took the lead against the run of play.
 
By this time, however, Harriers should have been ahead after creating a number of good chances.  After just seven minutes Bo Henriksen pounced on a miscued clearance by Billy Turley and managed to get the ball round the keeper and squared it for Drewe Broughton.  Just six yards out and with the goal at his mercy he shot high and wide.  Shortly afterwards Broughton and Adie Smith got in each other's way when both going for a Sam Shilton cross and steered the ball harmlessly wide.
 
It was not all one-way traffic, however, Robert Duffy twice hit powerful drives across the face of Stuart Brock's goal that none of his team-mates could get on the end of.  Turley ws in unusually good form and saved from Dean Bennett and Drewe Broughton to keep the score goalless before Rushden took the lead, somewhat against the run of play, when Duffy was allowed too much space at the far post to head in Paul Underwood's left wing cross.  In the last minute of the half Turley pulled of the save of the game to turn away Henriksen's overhead kick.
 
Harriers had another scare early in the second half, Paul Hall took the ball round Brock only for Lee Ayres to clear his shot off the line, Onandi Lowe hit the follow-up shot against the crossbar and then David Bell shot wide.  After dominating the early stages of the game, Harriers seemed totally devoid of ideas in the second half and it was not really a surprise when Rushden went further ahead after 66 minutes.  Marcus Bignot threaded a pass into the path of Stuart Wardley who slotted it past Brock.
 
Harriers didn't look capable of staging the needed comeback now, in fact one goal looked beyond them, but did manage to find the net with 18 minutes remaining.  A deep cross from Kenny Coleman found the head of Broughton who powered the ball past Turley.  The Reds stepped up the pressure after the boost of the goal but only once called Turley into action to save from Henriksen while at the other end the home team were wasting chance after chance and with seven minutes left Lowe headed another easy chance over the bar that would have finished the game off completely but even at 2-1 it was a deserved win for Rushden.

 

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