Dronfield Town secured a very creditable point against an in-form Horbury Town side on Tuesday evening. The proverbial game of two halves played out with Arran Bovill opening the scoring for Dronfield with an outstanding volley in the first period and Gibril Bojang equalising for the visitors from the spot in the second. The draw means that Town have taken four points from the Wakefield-based outfit this season, who are knocking on the door of the playoffs. Dronfield’s own playoff ambitions may possibly be a little out of reach with a 14 point gap to fifth-placed Wombwell but they will look to push on from their current eighth position on Saturday when they welcome Glasshoughton Welfare to the HE Barnes Stadium.
Horbury came into the game on the back of four straight wins but that didn’t deter Dronfield, who claimed the better of the first half. Three Sam Bebbington long throws caused consternation in the Horbury box – Max Rhodes having his shot charged down in the ninth minute as a result.
Horbury were good on the break all evening and had the ball in the net on sixteen minutes through Joe Angell but the referee adjudged that Callum Mawbey had been fouled in the build up.
Horbury’s James Smith could count himself lucky on nineteen minutes when he handled as the last man but after the receipt of a yellow card, Charlie Stewart’s free kick came to nothing.
Dronfield took the lead in outstanding fashion on thirty two minutes. Horbury failed to fully clear their lines and as the ball dipped to Arran Bovill, the tall midfielder volleyed it home from thirty yards to put Town up by 1-0.
Dronfield almost made it two just three minutes after in equally startling terms. Keeper and skipper Lewis Naylor struck the ball from fully sixty yards only to see it thunder back off the crossbar with his forwards unable to force home the rebound.
The half ended for the hosts with Bovill again involved in the action. As Horbury mis-controlled, he unleashed a fierce half volley from twenty yards that rose narrowly over the crossbar.
As much as Dronfield dominated the first half, the same could be said of Horbury in the second. Samuel Kyeremeh’s low shot set the tone three minutes after the restart.
The fifty minute mark saw Smith cut out a dangerous low Sam Bebbington cross from the right flank but that was Dronfield’s last chance of note for a good while. Horbury’s Jock Curran headed over from a corner a minute later and a delivery from Kyeremeh on the left fizzed across the goal with no attacker able to make the final touch.
The Horbury breaks came thick and fast, repelled by an increasingly frantic Dronfield rearguard. The visitors got back on level terms in the seventy sixth minute however.
James Lindores brought down the lively Gibril Bojang in the area, leading to the award of a penalty kick. The same player placed his spot kick just out of Naylor’s grasp to level matters at 1-1.
Horbury even had a chance to take all three points. Six minutes from time, Bojang’s left footed cross from the right wing saw Angell rise above the Dronfield defence but his header cleared the bar as Town breathed a sigh of relief.
Dronfield negotiated five minutes of added time to secure a valuable point against one of the division’s undoubted better teams. The draw takes Town to forty nine points in eighth, ahead of the visit of nineteenth-placed Glasshoughton Welfare to the HE Barnes Stadium this coming Saturday.
Dronfield Town: Naylor, Riley, Stewart, Knight, Hatton, Mawbey, Chapell, Bovill, Rhodes, Bebbington, Lindores. Subs: Benson, Wright, Appleyard, Thorpe, McKenzie-Grey.
Horbury Town: Hagreen, Schofield, Playford, Curran, Smith, Brook, Bojang, Angell, Cusworth, Asamoah, Kyeremeh. Subs: Swain, Kelly, Llewellyn, Feirn.
Attendance: 106
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