Monday night's Premier review

By David Watters

Stourbridge maintained their unbeaten start to go top of the fledgling EVO-STIK League Premier table on Monday night thanks to a hard-fought draw against Nantwich Town at the War Memorial Ground, writes Pitchero's Steve Whitney.

Jordan Archer put Stourbridge ahead after 18 minutes when he capitalised on a slip by Joel Stair before advancing on goal and slipping the ball beneath Dabbers` keeper Kristian Burzynski. That was one of few eye-catching moments in a first half that contained plenty of good play but little in the way of incident.

The second half proved much livelier, particularly once Matt Bell had brought Nantwich level when he volleyed home at the far post from Casper Hughes’ cross five minutes after the restart. Both sides could have found a winner but it was Nantwich who went closest when Matt Gould saved with his feet from substitute Kaiman Anderson.

Sean Cooke almost lobbed the back-pedalling Gould after that from 40 yards after the keeper had come out of his area to intercept a through ball. At the other end, Brandon Hague and Archer both both saw half-chances snuffed as neither side could find a winner and the honours ended even.

Twitter talk ...
Nantwich Town FC‏ - @TheDabbers
"Very good display from a young Dabbers team and the most likely to get a winner against Stourbridge."

Simon Whittle‏ - @saigonw1972
"@StourbridgeFC poor tonight against a lot worse Nantwich side than last season. Need some wingers and a creative midfielder. Top spot tho??"

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