Neston Beavers 2 Chester Beavers 2

Neston travelled to Chester for a late afternoon game under lights for a return fixture, the first game having been lost 4-0 in the first weeks of the season.
Neston started well and moved the ball into the Chester half, but against the run of play a poorly cleared cross from Chester led to a shot being defelected past Alex Davies to give Chester an early lead. Sam Dewey and Tom Honeybourne continued to drive Neston forward and some good play on the right between Greg Hughes and Ben Crane led to some good crosses coming in. Neston started to mount pressure on the Chester goal and a few short corners were won. Eventually Ben Crane got the ball past the Chester keeper to bring the scores level. Good play on left by Scott Barry and James Fennah kept the pressure on Chester and soon Ben Crane got his second to give Neston a deserved half time lead.
Chester put Neston under considerable pressure at the start of the second half and the defence of Alex Davies, James Chester, Max Dutton, Chris James, Peter Harrison and Alex Greenhalf were kept very busy. With the lighting very poor at the Neston end (due to a floodlight being out) the Chester umpire was doing very well to spot every Neston indiscretion and the short corner count was soon in double figures. With Alex Davies blocking well with his legs and Tom Honeybourne clearing from the line when one got past, Neston weathered the storm and gradually got back into the game. Richard Capes, Harry Sanguinetti and Ollie Eastwood running well up front. An interesting free hit from Tom on the edge of the D led to a head high hit flying into the Chester goal, luckily no one got their head to it. With the game nearly up Chester again mounted more pressure and a good run into the D led to an equaliser that on the run of play Chester deserved.
The game finished level with everyone commenting what a good competitive game had been played, providing more evidence of the improvement that everyone is making both individually and as a team. A big thankyou to Chris Warbrick who stayed on from the 6th team match and umpired - well done! Also thanks to all the parents who provided support.
Man of the match Ben Crane for being in the right place at the right time, twice!
There is no fixture arranged at the moment for next week.