Shirebrook Town held to goal-less draw against Radford

Shirebrook Town put in a solid defensive performance to return from Radford FC with a point after a 0-0 draw.

The Shirebrook squad had been boosted in the week with the return to the club last season’s second top goalscorer Joe Godfrey from Kimberley Miners Welfare.

The game got off to a very quiet start to the game with neither side testing the goalkeeper in the opening 20 minutes with the best Shirebrook chance falling to Blaise Duruaku who failed to keep a shot down.

As the half went on Seiko Brown was becoming the danger man for Radford as he kept getting in down the right hand side but a lack of poor crossing and poor finishing meant Radford were unable to take advantage of these chances and it meant the sides went in goalless at the break.

As the second half got underway it was the home side who started strongest with Shirebrook thankful to keeper Harrison Kissane who produced a fantastic save to keep out Alex Wilkinson’s shot after the Radford number 10 was played through 1 on 1 with Kissane.

Shirebrook’s best chance of the first 15 minutes of the half fell to Duruaku, but again he couldn’t keep his effort down.

In the 65th minute Radford came the closest either team had come to opening the scoring when Musa Juwara shot smacked the crossbar.

Radford hit Shirebrook on the break on 79 minutes with Seiko Brown racing away down the right and his cross found Alex Wilkinson who managed to find the bottom corner, however the offside flag was soon raised to halt the celebrations.

As the game went into the final 10 minutes both sides were pushing to try and get that all important goal with Joe Godfrey seeing a shot go wide as the game ended in a stalemate and both sides had to settle for a point.