Worcester Park 1 - 1 Salfords FC

                    Match report

                    16th September 2006

Salfords went into this game knowing it would be tough.Worcester Park's recent run of good form ,with a draw against promotion favourites Horley Town and a spirited comeback last week against South Park.


The game began with Salfords dominating the midfield area through Eastoe and Harjizat. With Delaney and Searle returning to the side Salfords found the two of them linking up well together down the right and this was to be the main outlet for Salfords in the first half.
With Worcester Park playing the offside trap well Basher had to change tactics to find a way through and on 33 minutes a through ball by Searle beat the offside trap and Smith found himself through on goal and coolly slotted under the keeper.


At the break Park were given a stern talking to similar to the previous week against south park in the hope of a similar turn around. Salfords started the second half the same as the first with plenty of possession. On 53 mins Park had a succession of corners which resulted in Salfords keeper Foskett pulling off three point blank saves to keep Salfords ahead. This seemed to wake Park up and without a MOM performance from Stratton at the back Salfords would have conceeded earlier.


The equaliser came on 57 minutes again another set piece created confusion and sloppy marking at the far post allowed Parks striker to control and smash the ball into the roof of Salfords net. Both sides had chances to win the game with Salfords missing the easiest right at the death but a point was probably a fair result as Salfords re building looks to be near completion. Basher "Again we showed we can compete with the physical sides like Worcester Park and also the footballing sides like Warlingham,having played mostly sides in the top six we are happy with the way we are plying and look forward to picking up points with a couple of games against what I would regard as mid table sides"


Team; Foskett, Searle(Brazil) Delaney,Stratton,Dempsey(Fontaime),Bull,Eastoe,Harjizat(Osama),Meta,Smith,Penalver Sub not used Rix.