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  • Kick-off: 15:00
  • Venue: York Street
  • Attendance: 1752
  • Referee: Moss, J

Live Commentary

90 mins

Paul Linwood is booked for dissent.

90 mins

That's it, it's all over, the referee has blown the final whistle.

83 mins

Goal!! Boston have scored with Jamie Stevens putting it in the back of the net.

79 mins

Paul Rutherford is replaced by Glenn Cronin.

66 mins

James Vaughan is replaced by Shaun Kelly.

59 mins

Dean Bennett is booked for unsporting behaviour.

53 mins

James Vaughan goes into the referees book for unsporting behaviour.

46 mins

The second half is under way with the score currently at 0 v 0.

46 mins

Chris Holroyd is being taken off, Laurence Wilson has come on in his place.

45 mins

The ref has blown his whistle for half time.

23 mins

Paul Ellender is booked for unsporting behaviour.

17 mins

It's red. He's off. Kevin Sandwith has been sent off.

0 mins

It's 3pm on Saturday, April 21st, the match has kicked off.

Match Report

A goal seven minutes from time by 18-year-old defender Jamie Stevens kept Boston United's survival hopes alive with a 1-0 win against Chester.

His close range header was enough to seal victory over 10-man City who have now won only one of their last 12 games.

Neither side showed any great levels of composure in the opening moments with only a ballooning 25-yard free kick from Boston's Jamie Clarke offering a token threat.

In the 14th minute Boston launched a more concerted attack but Francis Green shot tamely wide after cutting in from the right.

Boston missed a golden chance to take an 18th-minute lead when Clarke saw a penalty turned aside by John Danby after Kevin Sandwith had handled on the line to keep out a Paul Ellender header - his offence leading to a straight red card.

After that the game drifted into a phase of defences being in control and little in the way of goal mouth action.

Boston pressed again in the 41st minute with a neat build up down the right culminating in Brad Maylett threading a pass through for David Galbraith to see a shot on the turn blocked at the expense of a corner.

Boston had another chance four minutes after the interval when, following a Galbraith cross from a short corner, the ball dropped for Clarke to fire inches too high from 25 yards.

All the time little was seen of Chester as an attacking force with the 10-man visitors opting to leave only Simon Yeo on as a loan striker.

Boston tried to lift the tempo and in the 63rd minute Green stabbed wide at full stretch from a left-wing cross by David Farrell.

Six minutes later the home side went agonisingly close again. Mark Greaves rose to meet a Clarke corner but the ball dropped inches past the far post.

Finally Boston broke the deadlock in the 83rd minute when Galbraith delivered a fizzing corner from the right and Stevens glanced in a near post close range header.

Boston almost doubled the lead moments later when, after Green's shot had been blocked, Maylett fired too high from the edge of the area.

Boston United Team

Chester City Team

Boston United

Chester City

Corners

7 3

Fouls

5 15

Goal attempts

8 2

Shots off target

5 1

Offsides

4 1

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