Wealdstone 2 – 4 Braintree

Wealdstone

2 - 4

Braintree Town

KO: 0:00 | Sat 15th Jan ’05

Win one, lose won, win one, lose won. Its been the way with Stones league results over the last few weeks, and to keep the sequence going, this was no exception, Stones contriving to lose this game in the last ten minutes after leading twice (in fact they’ve done that before, twice, at home this season also against Billericay and Northwood. Where would we be now with those nine points and perhaps the three from Kingstonian!!)

This game saw both sides start brightly and create early openings but both defences coped well, the only attempt on goal an early effort from Richard Jolly, then just after the half hour, Jermaine turned in the box and was brought down – up stepped Jolly to score from the spot to give the Stones the lead.

It was an error by James Fisher, conceding a penalty at the other end that brought Braintree back into the game as Revell scored on 36 to tie things at 1-1 at half time.

The second half saw a bright start again as the two sides who looked evenly matched worked hard to create openings while the two back lines worked hard to prevent them – it seemed for a while there would be no more goals, but the game was far from dull as both sides played some entertaining football, then Beckford and McKeown combined, threading the ball to the bye line for Richard Jolly to chip in to the near post where Lee O’Leary scored his fourth goal in four starts with a glancing header on 57 minutes.

Stones at this stage seemed comfortable and in control of the game and despite their best efforts Braintree still could not find a way through, that was until poor marking at a corner gave them an equaliser as Remy was allowed to head home unchallenged. On 85 minutes with most fans still expecting a draw Stones failed to pick up their man again and ruined what had been a good performance allowing Lorraine to put Braintree ahead for the first time.

Stones pressed forward for an equaliser they at least deserved only to be caught again on 89 minutes when Porter broke away and hit a low shot past the static Carter.