08-11-22. Match report Vs Boston Utd

Harriers fall to yet another defeat

Report: Phil Lench

We saw a long awaited return from injury for Joe Foulkes and Tom Owen-Evans at Boston Utd this evening but their presence didn’t inspire us to victory sadly. Yet another defeat makes it three in a row now and it doesn’t look to be improving any day now. Russ Penn must be getting worried that his job is now on the line if he doesn’t come up with an answer soon.

On Saturday we travel back over into deepest Lincolnshire again to meet up with Kings Lynn Town and, on this form, if we get anything from them it’d be a miracle.

Joe Starbuck and Gabby Rogers were the ones dropped from the team following last Saturdays home defeat to Darlington FC to accommodate the return of Foulkes and Owen-Evans while Shane Byrne also returned after missing out injured on Saturday. Nathan Lowe made way for him.

Following some early pressure from the Reds the game came to a temporary halt when Amari Morgan-Smith and Jean-Leroy Belehouan collided in a clash of heads. Both needed treatment but Belehouan stayed down much longer. Once he recovered, six minutes later, he carried on for a while longer but after consideration he was withdrawn. 

We had already seen tow chances go begging. Owen-Evans firing over the bar and Keziah Martin shooting but only for Sam Long to collect the ball easily. Soon after it was Byrnes turn to go off with what seemed to be a re-occurrence of the back strain that kept him out in the previous game. Zak Brown came on for him.

Boston began to come into the game and Jake Wright fired wide in between a succession of corners. It was from one of those corners that they took the lead when Krystian Pearce was adjudged to have pulled the shirt of Lebrun Mbeka and the referee pointed to the spot. Scott Pollock took the kick and sent Tom Palmer the wrong way.

Five minutes later and it was all square once again but the goal didn’t come from us. Instead a ball in from Foulkes swept along the line waiting for someone to divert it into the net and Tom Nixon was in the way as it deflected off him for an own goal.

Just before half time (with the six minutes added on) Owen-Evans had another chance to celebrate his comeback but again his shot went over the bar.

HT: 1 – 1

Into the second half and it didn’t take Boston long to score a second, and the winning, goal. The former Alvechurch midfielder Tom Solanke sent in a defence splitting ball for Pollock to run onto as our defenders watched on. Pollock took it past Palmer and rolled it past him into the net.

We appeared to throw the towel in and just tried to limit the chances going Bostons way. We had a half chance for Yusifu Ceesay that went towards the keeper to scoop up easily while yet another effort for Owen-Evans again went over the bar. Scott Pollock also sent his shot over the bar with fifteen minutes to go.

Caleb Richards tried his luck with another saved shot while Pollock went for his hat trick and failed as his shot was booted off the line by Pearce. Without much more from either side the game drew to a close in yet another defeat for the Reds. Something has to change soon.

FT: 2 – 1

Goals for Boston Utd: S Pollock 28 (pen), 53

Goal for Harriers: Nixon 33 (og)

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Boston Utd	Goals	Subs	Time	Cards
Long
Ferguson
B Pollock
Platt
Belehouan			16
Nixon
S Pollock
Mbeka
Solanke			68
Wright
McLintock
Subs:
A Brown
Atkinson			16
Crawford			68
Gordon
Hinds
Harriers	Goals	Subs	Time	Cards
Palmer
Foulkes
Richards
Leak
Pearce
Byrne			19
Owen-Evans
Martin
Morgan-Smith			82
Hemmings
Ceesay
Subs:
Z Brown			19
Margetson
Freemantle			82
Bearne
Rogers
Referee:
Mr Benjamin Tomlinson
Rotherham