St@tto's Match Report - Kidderminster Harriers v Boston United 8 May 2004

Kidderminster Harriers 2(1) v (0)0 Boston United

Football League Division 3 - Aggborough - 8 May 2004

Attendance: 3047

Individual Stats
Kidderminster	Shots		Fouls		Off.	v	Boston	Shots		Fouls		Off.
	On	Off	For	Ag				On	Off	For	Ag
Stuart Brock 6	0(2)	0	0	0	0	[1]	Paul Bastock 6	0(4)	0	0	0	0
Craig Hinton 5	0	1	0	1	0	[5/20]	Lee Beevers 5	1	0	0	2	0
Scott Stamps 6	1(1)	0	1	1	0	[3]	Ben Chapman 5	0	0	1	2	0
Abdou Sall 6	0	0	1	0	0	[2/6]	Mark Greaves 5	0	0	2	2	0
Wayne Hatswell 6	1	1	2	0	0	[22/4]	Paul Ellender 5	0	0	1	4	0
Sean Parrish 6	1	1	1	0	0	[14/27]	David Noble 5	1(w)	0	1	2	0
Matt Gadsby 7	0	1	1	1	0	[6/16]	Simon Rusk 5	0	0	2	0	0
Simon Brown 7	2(1)	3	5	0	0	[24/9]	Steve Melton 5	1(1)	0	0	3	0
John Williams 7	2(1)	1	3	4	0	[9/18]	Lee Thompson 5	0	1	0	1	2
Scott Rickards 5	0	0	2	0	0	[16/8]	Greame Jones 5	0	1	2	2	0
Mark Yates	1(1)	0	2	2	0	[23/14]	Danny Thomas 5	1(1)	0	2	1	2
Steve Burton						[4/5]	Stuart Balmer 5	0	0	0	0	0
Lee Jenkins						[8/11]	Mark Angel
Jesper Christiansen 6	0	0	0	1	0	[10/15]	Dene Cropper
Chris McHale 5	0	0	0	1	0	[13/22]	Kevan Hurst 5	0	0	0	0	0
Adam Murray 5	0	0	1	0	0	[17/13]	Steve Croudson

Team Stats
	Fouls Conceded	Offside	Corners	Shots On	Shots off
Kidderminster	11	0	5	8	8
Boston	19	4	7	4	2

GOALS
Kidderminster			Boston
21	Paul Bastock	Simon Brown picked up the ball 25 yards from goal and hit a shot that went in off the post and goalkeeper.
73	John Williams	Gadsby brought the ball forward with a surging run past three defenders before slipping it to Williams on the right who cut inside and drilled a shot to the far post.

FORMATIONS

Kidderminster
		Brock
HInton	Sall		Hatswell	Stamps

	Gadsby	Parrish	Yates
Brown				Rickards
		Williams

Boston
		Bastock
Beevers	Greaves		Ellender	Chapman

Rusk	Melton		Noble	Thomas

	Thompson		Jones

SUBSTITUTIONS
Kidderminster				Boston
55	Christiansen	Rickards	Christiansen to striker, Williams to right wing, Brown to left wing.	59	Balmer	Chapman	Balmer to left back.
83	Murray	Brown	Murray to attacking midfield, Parrish to left central midfield, Yates to central midfield, Williams to striker. Now 4-3-1-2.	68	Hurst	Beevers	Hurst to striker, Noble to central midfield, Thomas to left central midfield, Rusk to right back. Now 4-3-3.
87	McHale	Yates	McHale to right back, Hinton to central midfield.

BOOKINGS
Kidderminster		Boston
Williams 47 Foul Stamps 71 Foul		Ellender 77 Foul Greaves 78 Foul
Referee: J. Ross

Match Report by St@tto

Harriers' season ended on a winning not with a deserved victory over Boston United at gloomy Aggborough. Goals in each half from Simon Brown and John Williams were enough to see Harriers home in a game with a real end-of-season feel to it.

Jan Molby made a number of changes to the line-up with the suggestion that some of the players were making their last appearance in a Harriers shirt while also giving a last chance for some of the out-of-contract players to impress. Stuart Brock returned for the injured John Danby while Abdou Sall came back from suspension and Scott Stamps, Matt Gadsby and Scott Rickards also were recalled.

In a bright start Harriers should have taken the lead as early as the seventh minute when a right wing cross was headed back across goal by Player Of The Season Wayne Hatswell and turned over the bar by Williams. The game soon began to degenerate, however, and although Harriers dominated possession they did very little with it until the 21st minute when they took the lead out of the blue. Simon Brown picked up the ball 25 yards from goal and struck a shot that beat Paul Bastock in the United goal but hit the post and rebounded into the net off the keeper. Soon afterwards Harriers could have doubled their advantage when Stamps and Williams combined on the left with Stamps following up to take the return pass only to drive his shot straight at Bastock.

United began to get themselves into the game and went close to an equaliser when David Nobles free kick deflected off the defensive wall and onto the crossbar with Brock beaten. Then, in the last minute of the half Steve Melton was put in on the left but his attempted lob was weak and Brock was able to tip it over for a corner.

The second half got worse; Harriers continued to enjoy the greater share of possession but still there was little end product. It was not until midway through the half that there was any action of note; Jesper Christiansen, on for the ineffective Rickards, ran on to a ball through the middle holding off the challenge of Stuart Balmer, who seemed keen to take his shirt, and knocked the ball sideways to Brown who saw his chip held onto by Bastock. Shortly afterwards a good passing move on the right wing ended with Gadsby whipping in an inviting cross from the right that just evaded the head of Sean Parrish.

The second goal came during this spell of Harriers pressure and was down to the determination of Gadsby. The midfielder picked up the ball near half-way and ran at the heart of the Boston defence beating several defenders before picking out Williams in support on the right, the striker cut inside and hit a left-foot shot that went just inside Bastock's right-hand post.

As the game and the season drew to a close Harriers could have added to their advantage at the death; Williams made a good run through the middle and set up Parrish who saw his 20-yard drive flash just over the bar and then in the last minute Christiansen received a log ball out of defence and turned and set Williams free on the right, his pace took him away from his marker and he hit a good shot that Bastock did well to hold.