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Arngrove Northern
League
11 September 2007
Dynamo Dodds
by Ken Milgate
Durham City 3
Richardson 28, 58
Chapman 84
Northallerton Town 0
While City took almost an hour to find any rhythm and pace in their
game, Lewis Dodds was a constant livewire and provided the power house
in midfield.
The opening ten minutes were a stop-start ebb and flow of innocuous
attacks and counters before Calvin Smith’s marker beat him in
the air to a Stephen Morris left-wing cross.
Although it was City who did the bulk of the attacking, Northallerton
defended stoutly and broke quickly without ever threatening
City’s defence; in fact, John Mohan was not called upon to
make a single save in the game.
A Morris solo run into the box on 25minutes was eventually blocked as
the visitors’ defence doubled up, but just before the half
hour City made the all-important breakthrough: Steven Richardson chased
a Keith Graydon through-ball but was the winner in a fifty-fifty
challenge for the ball when keeper Jack Norton could only fumble his
first contact on the ball.
But for a right-wing cross on 40minutes which eluded everyone in the
box, City never looked in danger of losing their lead, but neither did
they look like adding to their tally.
Northallerton had defended City’s first-half corners with
superior aerial challenges, so Graydon’s short corner to
Morris caught the visitors on the hop, but the latter’s shot
flew wide of the post.
City’s greater inventiveness and injection of pace resulted
in a gem of a goal: a flowing midfield move gave Calvin Smith the
opportunity to deliver the perfect right-wing cross which Richardson
headed firmly past Norton.
Both sides then made substitutions, Tommy English and Andy Appleby
replacing Richardson and Morris for City.
Appleby soon adjusted to the pace of the game and his right-wing cross
on 80minutes crowned one of many passing moves as City found their
free-flowing form, but the box was bare of Citizens.
Lee Chapman needed only three minutes to make his presence felt as he
came on for Jimmy Farrell with barely ten minutes left to play; he got
the final touch as a posse of City players exchanged close passes
following a Calvin Smith right-wing cross.
Northallerton proved a hard nut to crack, but City are proving a
resilient outfit, the bench providing positive options when needed
rather than making up numbers.
City, however, will need both guile and guts to account for Guiseley.
Durham City –
Mohan, Harrison, Capper, Dodds, Bowes, Smith (R), Smith (C), Graydon,
Farrell (Chapman 81), Richardson (English 63), Morris (Appleby 63)
Subs not used –
Price, Connell
Northallerton Town
– Norton, Walker, Bettson, Hill, Harmsworth, Green (Lenaghan
75), Dodsworth, Butterworth, Bythway, Hinton (Barwick 63), Hodson
(Draper 81)
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