SHIFNAL TOWN VS HIGHGATE UNITED Midland Football League, Premier Division Saturday 4 September 2021

SHIFNAL TOWN 0  HIGHGATE UNITED 0

Midland Football League, Premier Division

Saturday 4 September 2021

 

A draw was probably the right result from a game with two tight defences, although both sides had their chances to take maximum points. The evergreen Lee Chilton tested the Town goalkeeper in the first minute, with a low drive from just outside the box, which Jake James was equal to. The first chance to fall to the home side came midway through the first half, when Tom Hill did well on the left. His cross for Jake Webb was laid off for Keanu Cooper, but his 20-yard shot lacked power. Shifnal then had a good passage of play for the next 15 minutes or so, without being able to break down a solid defence. A minute before the break, Chilton wriggled through the Town defence, but James made a fine fingertip save to prevent a certain goal.

 

The visitors came out strongly for the second half, and only an assistant’s flag denied Chilton the opening goal. Harry Cunningham played the ball in for Hill after 52 minutes, but his pass through for Webb held up on him. 3 minutes later it looked odds on a Town goal when Keanu Cooper played a through ball for Hill, who lifted the ball over Bradley Catlow, but agonisingly wide of the post. Play was end to end, but it took until the 74th minute before Webb was denied by a superb save by Catlow, following a goalmouth melee.  

 

SHIFNAL: Jake James, Keefe Williams (Fin Ballantyne 71mins), Jordan Jones, Ben Perks, Brandon Taylor, Kieron Northwood, Keanu Cooper, Harry Cunningham, Tom Hill, Jay Holdcroft  (Kyle Pearson 90mins), Jake Webb (Jimmy Yates 90mins).

Subs not used: Brad Smith; Kane Taylor.

 

HIGHGATE: Bradley Catlow, Kartel O’Neill-Martin, Connor Mooney, Trevor Edwards, Kyle Batchelor, Arron Brown, Lee Chilton, Ryan Smikle, Ryan Boothe (Lewis Archer 61mins), Brad Maslen-Jones (Gabriel Bajrami 84mins), Connor Doyle (Jack Storer 61mins).

Subs not used: Liam Mulvey; Aon Abbas.

 

Cautions: Batchelor (73mins); Storer (79mins); Edwards (90mins); Smikle (90mins).

 

Sin Bin: Catlow (82mins).

 

 

Attendance: 187.

 

 

Referee:  Mark Malone (Stafford).

 

Assistant referees: Phil Felton (Wolverhampton).

                               Ashley Davis (Brownhills).

 

 Shifnal Star Man: Jordan Jones.

                  


 

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