While I am a little dissapointed that we could not hold onto the lead given how well we played Chippingham deserved at least a draw given how dominant they were. Therefor I do think as much as I hoped we'd hold on the draw was probably a fair result. Cem Whyte-hall had his best game for the club and did fantastic in the loan striker roll. Given we had to play a weker side due to fitness issues after the cup game the players handled things really well. Brad Nicholson especially really took his opportunity and so did Bowin and Barton. So another point on the board and hopefully we move onto the next game with a much fitter side.
Came up against a National League version of catenaccio and got fed through the shredder on every metric except the scoreboard. Wouldn't have picked this approach in a million years from them but can understand given they're down the bottom of the table. Well played to them, they won that draw, but I'll need to try to sort out the training cones from the players more carefully this week.
Dagenham and Redbridge and Bromsgrove Sporting shared the points in a tense 1-1 draw at Victoria Road on Friday night in FMFA Premier Division action. Bromsgrove struck first shortly after the restart when K_Hall capitalised on space centrally, driving forward and firing a swerving effort past Howes on 49 minutes to put the visitors ahead. That goal sparked Dagenham into upping tempo, shifting more aggressive shape immediately, but despite pressure they struggled to find a killer final ball and Harrison remained solid.
Bromsgrove looked likely to see it through after dropping into a more defensive posture around the 65th minute, and they nearly killed the game when Cook smashed the bar in the 68th minute, but no goal was given.
Dagenham finally found their breakthrough late. In the 88th minute Khaleel – best player on the night – unleashed a brilliant strike to level. A draw felt fair, but Daggers will feel relieved more than satisfied. 1-1 the final.