Bacup Borough twice conceeeded the lead and twice within two minutes of taking the lead in this East Lancasshire Derby.
The home side were a little unfortunate not to have had an early penalty when following a corner there were strong appeals that a Nelson defender had handled the ball, at the opposite end from a Nelson corner Horridge pulled off a good save tipping the ball around the post, it was end to end football but it was the Nelson penalty area where Bacup did have three excellent chances to have opened the scoring, the first Bryan Herbert produced a good strike, then Tony Carrol shot wide of the post following a long deep cross to the far post area from Herbert, Bacup's keeper Paul Horridge had to be alert at the opposite end when a wicked deflection off Shepherd dropped to a Nelson player whos goal bound shot was well saved, Bacup had another lucky escape when defender Gary Lloyd did try to open his body on the back line and got the ball stuck in his feet, he was robbed of possession but the shot was a long
way over the cross bar.
The next chance fell to Bacup of which Stuart
Shepherd shot inches wide following a free kick, on forty two minutes Bacup were awarded another free kick and Tony Carroll made no mistake bending his shot just inside the post, This lead was short lived when Bacuips Bryan Herbert did fail to keep hold of the ball, his control was a pass, in trying to win the ball back again he clumsily gave away a free kick some twenty five yards out, the Nelson striker stepped upto take the kick and struck the ball superbly into the corner of Bacups net giving Horridge little chance.
In the second half the tempo of the game was much the same as the first half, Nelson almost capitulising on an Adam Lucas sloppy pass which Nelson capitulised upon and Horridge saved well, at the opposite end of the ground Bacup did win a free kick and from this kick they did have the ball in the net but the Linesman had his flag up for offside, then some neat football from the home side did almost bring Bacup a goal when Shepherds shot was inches wide of the post. On seventy eight minutes Adam Lucas pounced on a loose ball before driving forward creating space for himself superbly before knocking a quality ball to Tony Carroll who did well creating space for himself before putting the ball past the helpless Carrington. With only twelve minutes plus injury time left on the clock it should have been Bacups points but on eighty minutes Bacups John Borg did go for a ball against the Nelson centre back, the ball got switched out to the centre backs left, with Bacups Bryan Herbert yet again caught knapping the Nelson full back did get beyond Herbert before delivering a quality cross in, with several bodies going up for thye ball it seemed to get deflected away from Shephered who was going to head away, falling to Ridehalgh who was unmarked smacking the ball across Horridge to secure his side with a valuable away point.
Manager Brent Peters Comments " Obviously we have only ourselves to blame that we have thrown away a valuable win, following our opening goal Bryan Herbert failed to keep hold of the ball in a good position for us, due to this he then makes a rash challenge to try to rectify his mistake from which they equilise, it was a quality strike but a position we should not have found ourselves in, our second goal Adam Lucas did well but Tony Carroll likewise creating space and finishing well, the game should have been finished, we should have easily have seen the last twelve minutes out but yet again players being indisciplined with their decision making, John Borg pressess a defender (Bad decision,) Bryan Herbert again goes to sleep (not unusual) the lad knocks a quality ball in and Stuart Shepherd allows his man to come off to score had he not have attempting to go and win that ball and just stayed and defended against Ridehalgh, the lad does not score, due to Sheps decision of attempting to go and win that ball and then it does take a slight deflection this then took Shep out of the game, the finish was easy for Ridehalgh to equilise unoppossed. At times our passing was sloppy through out the game but thankfully our lads at the back were different class, Tony Carroll takes his goals well but we must get more from our midfield going forward in terms of quality and getting bodies into the penalty area, this we do not do enough of and it shows by the lack of goals being scored from midfield players"
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