Recap: Harriers 0-1 Chorley

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HARRIERS suffered defeat at the hands of play-off chasing Chorley at Aggborough. 

Tom Carr fired the Magpies into an early lead before Ashley Hemmings fired the Reds level.

The visitors scored again in the second half and, despite both teams hitting the woodwork -Harriers on two occasions – the game ended 2-1.

It was a nightmare beginning for the Reds courtesy of the early goal, a ball lifted into the are and controlled by Carr before he rifled it under the body of Christian Dibble.

Riess McNally, on 13 minutes, won the ball inside his own half and promptly charged half the length of the pitch with it before firing at goal, producing a good save from Matt Urwin between the sticks.

Harriers were level on 21 minutes. A sweeping ball from Paul Downing was controlled well by Caleb Richards before his low delivery was angled home smartly by Hemmings, rushing in at the far post.

A deep 35th minute delivery into the Chorley area was nodded back across goal by Downing to Zak Brown, who was denied by an expert stop from Urwin as Harriers went close to making it 2-1.

Dibble had to make a smart save of his own to keep out a Chorley header on 53, moments before a Hemmings free kick, fired goalwards by Ryley Reynolds, was well blocked at the other end.

Past the hour, sub Maz Kouhyar turned well in the area to find space before his shot, arrowing towards the bottom corner, thumped off the base of the post.

Four minutes later, though, Chorley had re-established their lead as a long throw into the area was headed down and volleyed firmly into the roof of the net by Mark Ellis.

The best chancre Harriers had of a second leveller came in the final 20 seconds of normal time when David Davis shaped to shoot before coolly laying in Charlie Lutz who ran on to it and shot, the effort turned on to the post by Urwin.

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