7 Jan 2012 v Durham City

7 Jan 2012

Town 0 : Durham 0

Warrington Town continued their recent spell of good form on Saturday

Warrington Town continued their good spell of recent form and unbeaten run in 2012 when Durham City travelled to Warrington and returned home to the North East with a hard earned point, due to a fantastic reargurard action, which thwarted many of the promising attacks mounted by the home side.

It was Town who started the brightest of the two sides, with youngster Nick Jackson curling a free kick narrowly wide early on, before striker Lee Madin shot weakly at Durham keeper Lewis Graham. Town were in completely in control of the game, but could not break down the resolute defending of the visiting side. Town had a great chance to go ahead in the 27th minute when full back Mike Duffy was played through on the overlap, only to see his powerful drive well saved by Graham at close range. Fellow full back Matt Cross was next to go close, seeing his free kick go wide of the upright. As time wore on, Town once again went close, this time through diminutive midfielder Kyle Hamid, who saw his diving header from Lee Madin's pinpoint cross, go narrowly the wrong side of the upright. The closest Town came to scoring in the first half, was through Durham defender Dan Madden, who saw his back header from Warrington striker Anthony Hickey's cross, gathered under his own crossbar by Graham.

The second half began with the game taking the same pattern as in the first half, with Town, generally in control of the game, but being unable to seriously test Graham in the Durham goal. It was, however, Durham who had the first chance of the half, tall striker Stephen Thompson planting his towering header straight at Chris Oldfield in the Town goal. With time running down, Town went in search of a goal that would win the game, and went very close just after the hour mark, when Madin saw his shot through a packed penalty area strike the bottom of the upright and bounce away to safety, with Graham well beaten. With the clock running down, much of Town's excellent build up, came to nought, with livewire winger Allan Collins seeing his header blocked by Madden before Durham could have won the game themselves, midfielder Arjun Purewal seeing his powerful long range drive saved fantastically by Oldfield, who plunged to his left to push the shot around the post, when a goal looked certain. Try as they might, Town could not find a winning goal that their play deserved, and focus now turns to the trip to league leaders Curzon Ashton next Saturday.

Town: Oldfield, Duffy, Cross, Humphreys, T Hardwick (c), Hamid, Collins, Jackson (R Hardwick, 84), Madin (Wright, 68), Hickey, Shipton, subs not used: Thompson, Scott