St@tto's Match Report - Kidderminster Harriers v Cheltenham Town 10 February 2004

Kidderminster Harriers 0(0) v (0)0 Cheltenham Town

Football League Division 3 - Aggborough - 10 February 2004

Attendance: 3803

Individual Stats
Kidderminster	Shots		Fouls		Off.	v	Cheltenham	Shots		Fouls		Off.
	On	Off	For	Ag				On	Off	For	Ag
Stuart Brock 6	0(2)	0	0	0	0	[1/12]	Shane Higgs 7	0(3)	0	0	0	0
Matt Gadsby 6	0	0	0	1	0	[6/2]	Anthony Griffin 5	0	0	0	0	0
Scott Stamps 6	0	1	0	3	0	[3]	Jamie Victory 5	0	0	0	0	0
Craig Hinton 5	0	1	1	1	0	[5/6]	Michael Duff 6	0	0	0	1	0
Wayne Hatswell 6	0	0	3	1	0	[22/5]	John Brough 5	0	0	2	1(h)	0
Dean Bennett 5	0	2	3	1	1	[7/28]	John Finnegan 5	0	0	1	1(h)	0
Adam Murray 5	1(1)	2	0	0	0	[17/16]	Martin Devaney 5	0	2	3	1	0
Scott Rickards 5	0	0	1	1	0	[16/31]	Karl Henry 5	0	0	2	4	0
John Williams 5	0	1	0	3	1	[9]	Paul Brayson 5	1(1)	1	1	0	1
Ian Foster 5	0	0	0	0	0	[21/17]	Kayode Odejayi 5	0	0	2	3	0
Dean Keates 5	2(1)	0	3	3(1h)	0	[11]	Grant McCann 5	1(1)	2	0	1	0
Danny Williams						[4]	Richard Forsyth 5	0	0	1	0	0
Jesper Christiansen 5	1(1)	0	0	0	0	[10/14]	David Bird 5	0	0	0	0	0
Sean Parrish						[14/21]	Ben Cleverley
Graham Ward						[20/32]	Peter Hynes 5	0	0	1	1	0
John Danby						[15/1]	Steve Book

Team Stats
	Fouls Conceded	Offside	Corners	Shots On	Shots off
Kidderminster	14	2	7	4	7
Cheltenham	13	1	2	2	5

FORMATIONS

Kidderminster
		Brock
Gadsby	HInton		Hatswell	Stamps

	Murray	Bennett	Keates

	Rickards	J. Williams	Foster

Cheltenham
		Higgs
Griffin	Duff		Brough	Victory

Devaney	Henry		Finnegan	McCann

	Brayson		Odejayi

SUBSTITUTIONS
Kidderminster				Cheltenham
70	Christiansen	Foster	Christiansen to centre forward, J. Williams to right, Rickards to left.	58	Hynes	Odejayi	Hynes to striker.
				76	Forsyth	Henry	Forsyth to right central midfield.
				81	Bird	Brayson	Bird to centre midfield. Now 4-5-1.

BOOKINGS
Kidderminster		Cheltenham
Hinton 52 Foul Stamps 64 Foul Keates 89 Foul
Referee: C. Boyeson

Match Report by St@tto

Two poor teams shared the point in a dour goalless draw at Aggborough as Harriers stretched their winless run to eight games. Harriers' best home league gate of the season was in attendance to see the debut of Dean Keates annd the return of Ian Foster.

Jan Molby made three changes to the team that was beaten by Yeovil on Saturday; John Williams started in place of Jesper Christiansen while Keates and Foster came in for Rob Betts and Danny Williams who was dropped for the first time this season. As in the previous game, the match began in lively fashion with half chances at both ends. Cheltenham had a couple of long range efforts that fell to Martin Devaney and Paul Brayson that didn't trouble Stuart Brock in the Harriers goal while at the other end Adam Murray was a whisker away from connecting with a spectacular overhead kick that would surley have hit the back of the net had he met it.

Murray was not at his best but was still the key to most Harriers moves; it was his free kick that found the head of Craig Hinton who had made his way forward unmarked but he headed over the bar. The game degenerated into a midfield battle with neither side looking really dangerous in attack. There were players on both sides - Keates and Murray for Harriers and Grant McCann for The Robins - who should have lit up the game but it was not to be. It was not until late in the half that a goal was threatened again, Keates had a low shot from over 30 yards out that Shane Higgs held at the second attempt; Murray curled a long-range free-kick over the wall that had Higgs scurrying across his goalline to field and at the other end Brayson was allowed too much time to turn in the Harriers penalty area but his shot was weak and straight at Brock.

The second half was even worse than the first; after an early free kick from McCann that beat the wall, but not Brock, from 25 yards out the play was some of the most scrappy seen at Aggborough all season. Harriers probably had the best of the possession but even with a three-pronged attack never looked capable of finding the net while Cheltenham didn't muster another shot on target. In hte last twenty minutes Harriers became more frantic, a Dean Bennett shot from distance was deflected away for a corner which came to nothing; another long range shot, this time from Keates, hit Jesper Christiansen who managed to control it and turn and shoot but the shot was weak and easily picked up by Higgs. Five minutes from the end Christiansen picked up the ball on the right and knocked it back into the path of John Williams who hit his shot narrowly wide of the far post.

There was no other action in the game and the crowd was streaming out of the ground well before the end. The result did, however, lift Harriers one place further away from the relegation zone but makes the next games, at Southend, a real six-pointer that they must win.