A look back at Saturday’s win in National League North…
By Matty Paddock - 26/10/2024
Posted 3 months ago
HARRIERS bagged more points on the road in National League North with a 1-0 win at Peterborough Sports.
The visitors controlled virtually all aspects of the tie against Sports and, perhaps short of a second goal, enjoyed the ideal afternoon at Pims Park.
Just ten minutes in, Harriers went close. After successive corners, Ashley Hemmings shot towards the bottom corner and was denied by an excellent block from Lawlor with goalkeeper Crook behind him just to make sure.
Crook certainly was the last line of defence four minutes later. It was Hemmings again as he executed a lovely looking bicycle kick inside the area, his shot having to be turned aside.
Christian Dibble had to hold from a Felix drive midway through the half, before David Davis had a flick header blocked behind from a good Joe Foulkes cross.
From another corner, Kam Kandola went close to being an unlikely scorer as he flicked a header on that a backtracking Crook had to tip over, the custodian utterly helpless to stop Maz Kouhyar’s blistering effort. He’d been set up by Hemmings and took aim, only for the effort to clatter the bar.
Just after, Peterborough were down to ten men after Michael Gash was dismissed for what appeared to have been adjudged as dissent.
Sports will have regrouped at the half-time interval that came just seconds after the red card, but that game plan appeared to go out of the window barely a minute after the second half got on underway, Harriers building smartly and snatching the lead when Morgan-Smith slammed home Devine’s low cross.
Chances were far fewer in the second half but, despite one effort from Jarvis, angled from the edge of the area, Peterborough never really got close to troubling Dibble.
Brown, meanwhile, chanced his arm from distance with a dipping, swerving shot that Crook did well to keep out with a little over 20 minutes to go, Hemmings nodding wide from Kouhyar’s cross five minutes later.
Kouhyar had the last of the chances, deep into added time, but as he struck from ten yards out, Crook was again equal to it to cap a performance that saw him voted the home side’s Man of the Match.
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