Saturday 1st September 2007 AAFC 1 Blackpool Mechanics 1
Stalemate at Brocstedes Park as the teams had to settle for a single point that maintained Blackpool's unbeaten start to the league campaign and made it five games unbeaten for the home side.
From the start the game appeared as it was going to be tight and posssession was evenly balanced throughout the first half. Blackpool's best efforts came from two long range efforts from Nick Greenall and Daniel Crulech but both were wide of the mark.
Ashton responded as Chris Almond was played in by Paul Townshend but the shot was not fully powered and keeper Jamie Cook gathered comfortably. Almond then returned the compliment after beating his man and flighting a cross onto Townshend's head but his well directed header into the bottom corner was superbly saved by Cook in the 17th minute.
Ashton had a loud shout for a penalty as Mark Court was man handled to the ground in the process of getting his head to a corner, but the referee ignored the plea, and Blackpool counter attacked immediately and only a last ditch block by Pat Aspinall denied Mechanic's Paul Ryan.
after a period of stalemate Ashton once again threatened to score as Townshend turned sharply in the box, produced an early shot that took Blackpool by surprise but with the ball heading for the corner of the goal it struck another Ashton player and deflected wide.
With the half time whistle fast approaching Blackpool were gifted the opening goal as Ashton Keeper Paxton uncharacteristically mistimed a clearance whilst recovering a ball out of his area and a very grateful Steve Gibson lobbed the ball into the empty net. HT 0-1
Burke gets his first goal for Ashton
Ashton started the second half clearly intent on making early amends and as soon as the 46th minute Mike Burke pounced onto a loose ball in the box to slam the ball home to even up the scores. 1-1.
Blackpool had sporadic forages into the Ashton half, comfortably dealt with by the Ashton back line, and although Ashton were dominating possession clear cut chances were hard to come by against the stubborn Mechanics defence.
The pressure did produce some half chances including efforts from Steve Bennett and Paul Mcveigh along with several goal mouth scrambles that Blackpool did well to clear.
In the end the backs to the wall defending by Blackpool kept the home team at bay and the spoils were shared. FT 2-2.
The MoM awards went to Ashton's Pat Aspinall and Blackpool's Paul Ryan.
The Ashton team now moves on to a Wigan Cup second Round match at home to Hindley Town - 7.45pm KO, before preparing for the Club's first ever venture into the FA Vase with a qualifying round tie against Doncaster based North East Counties side Rossington Main next Saturday 8th September - 3pm KO.
Aspinall bags the MoM award for Ashton
From the start the game appeared as it was going to be tight and posssession was evenly balanced throughout the first half. Blackpool's best efforts came from two long range efforts from Nick Greenall and Daniel Crulech but both were wide of the mark.
Ashton responded as Chris Almond was played in by Paul Townshend but the shot was not fully powered and keeper Jamie Cook gathered comfortably. Almond then returned the compliment after beating his man and flighting a cross onto Townshend's head but his well directed header into the bottom corner was superbly saved by Cook in the 17th minute.
Ashton had a loud shout for a penalty as Mark Court was man handled to the ground in the process of getting his head to a corner, but the referee ignored the plea, and Blackpool counter attacked immediately and only a last ditch block by Pat Aspinall denied Mechanic's Paul Ryan.
after a period of stalemate Ashton once again threatened to score as Townshend turned sharply in the box, produced an early shot that took Blackpool by surprise but with the ball heading for the corner of the goal it struck another Ashton player and deflected wide.
With the half time whistle fast approaching Blackpool were gifted the opening goal as Ashton Keeper Paxton uncharacteristically mistimed a clearance whilst recovering a ball out of his area and a very grateful Steve Gibson lobbed the ball into the empty net. HT 0-1
Burke gets his first goal for Ashton
Ashton started the second half clearly intent on making early amends and as soon as the 46th minute Mike Burke pounced onto a loose ball in the box to slam the ball home to even up the scores. 1-1.Blackpool had sporadic forages into the Ashton half, comfortably dealt with by the Ashton back line, and although Ashton were dominating possession clear cut chances were hard to come by against the stubborn Mechanics defence.
The pressure did produce some half chances including efforts from Steve Bennett and Paul Mcveigh along with several goal mouth scrambles that Blackpool did well to clear.
In the end the backs to the wall defending by Blackpool kept the home team at bay and the spoils were shared. FT 2-2.
The MoM awards went to Ashton's Pat Aspinall and Blackpool's Paul Ryan.
The Ashton team now moves on to a Wigan Cup second Round match at home to Hindley Town - 7.45pm KO, before preparing for the Club's first ever venture into the FA Vase with a qualifying round tie against Doncaster based North East Counties side Rossington Main next Saturday 8th September - 3pm KO.
Aspinall bags the MoM award for Ashton
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