Boston United 2(0) v (1)2 Kidderminster Harriers
Football League Division 3 - York Street - 29 November 2003
Attendance: 2147

Individual Stats
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 OnOffForAg   OnOffForAg 
Paul Bastock 4 00000[1]Stuart Brock 5 0(2)0100
Daryl Sutch 5 00010[2]Adie Smith 6 00010
Lee Beevers 5 00010[20/23]Steve Burton 5 00201
Mark Greaves 5 0002(1p)0[6/5]Craig Hinton 6 10230
Stuart Balmer 5 00040[5/22]Wayne Hatswell 5 00020
Paul Ellender 5 01520[4]Danny Williams 5 00150
Neil Redfearn 6 2(2)3120[15/9]John Williams 6 00001
Lee Thompson 5 01210[18/6]Matt Gadsby 5 02000
Greame Jones 5 01321[8/25]Andy White 8 106(1p)24
Adam Boyd 7 32211[25/7]Dean Bennett 6 00200
Mark Angel 6 01100[11/14]Sean Parrish 5 12010
Peter Duffield     [9/3]Scott Stamps 5 00001
Matt Hocking     [12/11]Sam Shilton 5 00200
Simon Rusk     [16/12]Bo Henriksen     
Stuart Douglas     [17]Matt Lewis     
Steve Croudson     [13/15]John Danby     
Team Stats
  Fouls Conceded Offside Corners Shots On Shots off
Boston 162759
Kidderminster 147434
GOALS
BostonKidderminster
62 Adam Boyd A long ball from the left was not cleared properly and fell to Boyd ten yards out who tucked his shot past Brock inside the post. 35 Craig Hinton Penalty struck high to the keeper's right with Bastock diving in the right direction.
69 Adam Boyd Boyd hit a shot from outside the penalty area that deflected off the outstretched leg of Hinton and looped over Brock into the back of the net. 54 Andy White A long ball from defence caused confusion in the Boston defence and White nipped in to steal the ball and curl a shot around Bastock and inside the far post.
FORMATIONS
Boston
  Bastock  
SutchGreaves BalmerBeevers
     
RedfearnThompson EllenderAngel
     
 Jones Boyd 
Kidderminster
  Brock  
SmithHinton HatswellBurton
     
J. WilliamsGadsby D. WilliamsParrish
  Bennett  
  White  
SUBSTITUTIONS
BostonKidderminster
        66 Shilton J. Williams Shilton to right midfield.
        85 Stamps Parrish Stamps to left midfield.
BOOKINGS
BostonKidderminster
Sutch 61 Foul
Ellender 89 Foul
  Brock 65 Time Wasting  
Referee: T. Kettle
Match Report by St@tto

Harriers conceded goals away from home for the first time in a league game since September 30, throwing away a two-goal lead and a seemingly comfortable three points and had to hang on for just a solitary point.

Jan Molby decided to go with a more conservative formation again playing Andy White alone in attack against one of his former clubs with Dean Bennett in the gap between attack and a four-man midfield.  Boston played a very direct style of game and in the opening stages of the game forced Harriers to defend a series of long range shots.  Harriers themselves made a few forays into home territory but were unable to force Paul Bastock in the Boston goal into action.  Stuart Brock was called upon after 21 minutes to block a long range shot from Neil Redfearn that took a nasty bounce in front of him and he pushed away for a corner.  The resulting corner was cleared and Harriers launched a quick counter-attack, Bennett carried the ball forward and found John Williams on the right, he carried on his run but Williams' low cross was just a little too far ahead of him.

Harriers took the lead ten minutes before the interval; Andy White, playing his best game in a Harriers shirt, broke into the penalty area on the left where he was brought down by Mark Greaves and the referee had no hesitation in pointing to the spot.  After some waiting as if Harriers didn't know who was to take the penalty Craig Hinton stepped forward adn despatched a kick that flew in just below the crossbar to Bastoc's right with Bastock himself having dived in the right direction.  In the closing minutes of the half Harriers could have doubled their advantage, Steve Burton's right wing corner was half cleared and fell to Sean Parrish who struck a 25-yard volley that went narrowly over the bar.

Shortly after the break Boston had the chance to level the scores when they were awarded a free kick 20 yards out from Brock's goal, Redfearn took the kick and blasted it well wide of the far post.  Harriers then doubled their advantage; White, taking abuse from the home crowd, nipped in between the home team's central defenders as they left the ball to each other and curled a shot round Bastock into the far corner to silence his critics in the best way possible.

With a two-goal advantage Harriers seemed to ease off a little and Boston were able to force their way back into the game, another long ball from the back was not cleared properly and fell to Adam Boyd who tucked it inside Brock's left-hand post.  Bouyed by good backing from their supporters the home team were on top now and nearly drew level soon after wards: a corner from the left found Paul Ellender at the far post and his goalbound header was cleared by the head of Adie Smith for another corner.  Harriers did break out of their own half and went close to restoring the two-goal advantage; White broke clear on the left and his pull back picked out Matt gadsby but the latter was stretching to reach the ball and could only steer it wide of the far post.

The second Boston goal came just seven minutes after the first; again the ball came to Boyd, this time outside the penalty area, and his shot looped off Hinton and over hte stranded Brock into the back of the net.  Once the scores were level there was only likely to be one winner, boston's Boyd almost completed his hat-trick seven minutes from the end but his shot from the edge of the penalty area was blocked.  Harriers had no answer and were unable to create anything that would have regained them the lead, the midfield became anonymous, the industrious White suddenly found himself isolated in attack and they did well to hold on for a draw.

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