Nationwide South
26th October 2004
	Welling United	1 - 1	Hornchurch
Tyne 42'		H/T 1 - 0 Att: 636	Jackson 80'

Match Highlights

Welling United

Hornchurch

Day - BOOKED	9
Tyne - GOAL	42
Lee - BOOKED	63
Ball - BOOKED	66
	71	OFF - Shipp ON - Jackson
	73	OFF - Stuart ON - Sigere
	78	OFF - Hill ON - Weatherstone
	80	GOAL - Jackson
Ball - OFF Carter - ON Booth - OFF Skinner - ON	83

Hands up all those who thought this would be easy.  Teams at the bottom upsetting teams at the top doesn't happen that often, but probably more often than it should and Welling came close to doing so in this game.

The home side had decent chance as early as the 5th minute when Lee Spiller slid in at the far post but just failed to make contact with a low cross in from George Lay.  On 11 minutes Welling's James Pullen, who was on loan to us not so long ago, pulled off a great save, clawing a Danny Shipp header off the line following a John Martin cross. How different the game would have been if that had gone in.  Danny Slatter headed narrowly over midway through the half and Sonny Ball shot inches wide in the 31st minute after a far post free kick from Jamie Day.  Pullen tipped over from a Paul McCarthy header on 32 minutes and Ashley Bayes spooned the ball wide after a good move from the home side ended with a run and shot from Ball ten minutes later.  Welling took the lead from the resulting corner, the ball crossed in low for Tommy Tyne to put the ball into the roof of the net from close range.

Another good run and shot from Day early on in the second half and a good save from Bayes in the 56th minute to deny Lay suggested that the home side were keen to extend their lead but things began to turn in our favour after manager Garry Hill changed things by replacing Danny Shipp with Kirk Jackson with 20 minutes to go.  Matt Lee cleared off the line from Wayne Purser in the 73rd minute and, after coming on for Jamie Stuart a minute earlier, Jean-Michel Sigere nodded down for Lee Elam who shot across goal and wide of the post in the 74th minute. Our equaliser finally came in the 80th minute when a near post corner was headed goalwards by Jackson again bringing out another great save from Pullen but it came back to Jackson who forced the ball home through a crowd of players.  In the closing stages efforts from John Martin and Simon Weatherstone were inches away from winning us the game, which would have been nice for us, but harsh on the home side.
 

Video Highlights by Rob

- 42 mins - Tommy Tyne puts the home side in front (565KB)
- 80 mins - A sigh of relief as Kirk Jackson equalises (550KB)

  Teams

Welling United James Pullen Matt Lee Sonny Ball James Smith Tony Browne George Lay Danny Slatter Lee Spiller Tommy Tyne Paul Booth Jamie Day SUBS Gary Carter Danny Skinner Tope Arojogun Kevin Watson -

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Hornchurch Ashley Bayes Scott Gooding Jamie Stuart Steve West Paul McCarthy Danny Hill Lee Elam Darren Caskey Danny Shipp Wayne Purser John Martin SUBS Damon Searle Abiodun Baruna Simon Weatherstone Kirk Jackson Jean-Michel Sigere

Weather Conditions:  Actually quite a pleasant Autumn evening
 

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