HARLOW TOWN 0 BRENTWOOD TOWN 1 FA Trophy 1st Qualifying Round Replay Tuesday 23rd October 2007

Match report by Billy Shaw
Photographs by Tony Fowles

RYAN Kirby’s hopes of a good cup run for his side were dealt potentially a terminal blow when bogey side Brentwood Town dumped the Hawks out of the FA Trophy.
The only chance of cup success that now remains for the Barrows Farm occupants is the Essex Senior Cup, in which they have drawn Redbridge away in the third round.
Harlow failed to avenge their earlier FA Cup exit at the hands of Brentwood on Tuesday night, with Steve King heading home the only goal of the game on 15 minutes.
Management chose to run with exactly the same Harlow line-up as that which drew 1-1 in the original tie three days earlier.
Keeper David Hogan got low to block Joao Carlos’ effort on 12 minutes, two minutes before Brentwood captain Danny Dafter slipped over in midfield, letting in Clark Akers, but the attacker pulled his shot wide from 25 yards.
Brentwood scored the simplest of goals on the quarter-hour mark, with Steve King rising to divert a free header from Lee Noble’s corner into the net.
Jordan Fowler was placed in the referee’s notebook for a late challenge on a Brentwood defender in the 26th minute, before the visitors again went close with an aerial attack, Gareth Street flicking a header just over from Dafter’s cross on 31 minutes.
Sean Thomas also headed over the bar 11 minutes into the second half after a cross by Joao Carlos, as the home side struggled to mount any effective attacks on the leaders’ goal.
Jordan Fowler was replaced by Danny Green midway through the second period as the hosts’ changed formation to play three up front in search of an equalizer.
But with the visitors refusing to sit back on their one goal advantage, Terry Scotchmer forced a good stop from David Hogan with a free kick on 76 minutes, awarded for Lee Miles’ foul on substitute Leon Diazcuk.
Dean Williams wasted an opportunity for the Hawks when he blazed wide after receiving a cross-field ball and cutting inside the area a minute later.
James Bunn hurled himself at Leon Lalite’s corner to force a save from visiting stopper Marc Palmer with ten minutes remaining, before Danny Green also tested the keeper from inside the area.
But Green was left kicking himself for not finding the net when he volleyed just wide from close range after being fed from the right by Williams on 81 minutes.
With time running out for Ryan Kirby’s men, Brentwood had the last effort, with David Hogan called into action again to deny Carlos in added time.Harlow Tn: David Hogan, Kenny Davis, Mark Taylor, Lee Miles, Ryan Kirby, Beckett Hollenbach, Leon Lalite, Clark Akers, James Bunn (sub: Michael Gliddon, 85), Jordan Fowler (sub: Danny Green, 68), Dean Williams. Subs not used: Kevin Warren, Joe Watson, Michael Dumoulin (GK).