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Woodbridge, who turned a half-time deficit into
a second-half lead, conceded an equaliser six
minutes from time and were then grateful to a
fine Marcus Garnham save four minutes into
injury time for preserving their point.
Luke Read and Ben Seaman were
both out injured, so Gerard Nash and Aaron
Churchyard, both unavailble for the midweek trip
to King's Lynn, returned to the side with Simon
Peddie coming in at right back and Stefan Marsh
dropping to the bench.
The visitors stunned Woodbridge by taking a
first-minute lead when Steve Shipley's shot
deflected off Ben Miller and looped up and over
the stranded Marcus Garnham into the net.
Woodbridge were making too many misplaced passes
to get a foothold in the game and almost fell
further behind in the 28th minute when a Paul
Atkins shot was fingertipped by Marcus Garnham
onto the underside of the crossbar and came out,
before Martin Goulder sprung the offside trap
and should have done better than lob wide of the
goal. Marcus Garnham got
down to block Nathan Page's shot following a
one-two with Shaun Bammant and from the
resultant corner Bammant's goal-bound header
caused confusion in the Woodbridge penalty area
before the ball was cleared.
The half ended with Adam Smith
shooting wide following another Norwich corner,
and the visitors were worthy of their interval
lead, with Woodbridge's only real effort of note
in the opening period coming from a Jon Bickers
shot from 25 yards which was straight at Matthew
Hill. Just as Norwich
had scored in the first minute of the first half
so Woodbridge equalised within sixty seconds of
the resumption when a good move down the right
wing ended with Peddie's low cross into the area
being turned into his own net by visiting
defender Craig Roberts under pressure from Lee
O'Neill. A clash of
heads involving Norwich duo Adrian Ager and Page
and O'Neill led to O'Neill being replaced in the
55th minute by Paul Hart, who had missed the
King's Lynn match through illness. Hart had only
been on the pitch three minutes when he scored
with a well-struck shot across the keeper to put
Woodbridge ahead.
Bammant headed wide before Woodbridge passed up
a gilt-edged opportunity to wrap up the points
in the 71st minute when Nash played the ball in
behind the defence and Hart dribbled round Hill
but it was Allicion Blake whose shot hit the
outside of the post instead of finding an empty
net. Atkins shot over
the bar at the other end after holding off Grant
Monaghan and then Miller just failed to connect
with Nash's curling free-kick.
With six minutes of normal time
remaining Adam Ferguson released Page wide on
the right and his ball into the box by picked
out Atkins arriving at the far post to sidefoot
home the equaliser, before the same player was
denied a late, late winner.
Woodbridge Town: Marcus Garnham,
Simon Peddie, Grant Monaghan, Ben Garnham, Mark
Roper, Ben Miller, Gerard Nash, Jon Bickers,
Allicion Blake, Lee O'Neill (sub Paul Hart 55
mins), Aaron Churchyard. Unused subs: Stefan
Marsh, Sean Rea, Aaran Sheppard, Jamie Scales.
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