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That's it, it's all over, the referee has blown the final whistle.
Goal!! Jon Walters scores for Chester.
Stephen Vaughan is replaced by Simon Marples.
Bury are replacing Marc Goodfellow with David Buchanan.
Roberto Martinez is being taken off, Ricky Ravenhill has come on in his place.
Nicky Adams is being taken off, Marc Pugh has come on in his place.
Bury are replacing Brian Barry-Murphy with David Flitcroft.
Goal!! Chester have scored with Jon Walters putting it in the back of the net.
The second half is under way with the score currently at 1 v 1.
The ref has blown his whistle for half time.
Goal!! Bury have scored with Jon-Paul Pittman putting it in the back of the net.
Own goal, Colin Woodthorpe has put it in his own net.
Laurence Wilson goes into the referees book for unsporting behaviour.
It's 7:45pm on Tuesday, August 8th, the match has kicked off.
Bury slipped to their second defeat in four days after a comedy of errors proved costly at Gigg Lane. New loan signing Jon-Paul Pittman cancelled out Colin Woodthorpe's first-half own-goal as the Shakers battled for their first points of the season after Saturday's disappointing 2-1 away defeat to MK Dons. But a dreadful mix-up between skipper Dave Challinor and new keeper Alan Fettis gifted Jon Walters a simple goal, and the striker added a second in injury-time to secure Chester the points. Fettis could only parry Walters initial shot, but both he and Challinor had time to clear the ball and didn't, which allowed the Chester striker to scramble the ball over the line early in the second half. As Bury pushed for an equaliser they were caught on the counter and Walters made them pay with a clinical injury-time finish. The first chance of the game fell Chester's way, but Fettis comfortably saved Laurence Wilson's looping left-foot shot in the second minute. Midfielder Dwayne Mattis, a former player of the year at Gigg Lane, fired over from long-range in the eighth minute as Bury gradually found their footing in the game. But the home side were lucky not to have a penalty awarded against them when Jamie Hand went down in the box after a strong challenge from John Fitzgerald. Cumbrian referee Mike Pike turned down Chester's protests. A minute later Walters forced Fettis to produce a brilliant one-handed save as the visitors looked for the early advantage. Nicky Adams supplied new loan signing Pittman in the 24th minute, but the 19-year-old American striker saw Chester keeper John Danby equal to his right-foot shot from the edge of the box. Walters was again on target, this time hitting the target from an acute angle in the 31st minute, only for Fettis to deny him for a second time. But five minutes later Chester had their breakthrough. Bury failed to clear their lines and Martinez produced a sweet volley, with the ball deflecting off Woodthorpe for an own-goal and past Fettis into the top right-hand corner. However, Pittman deservedly drew the home side level on the stroke of half-time. Strike partner Andy Bishop threaded him through and his right-foot shot was good enough to beat Danby, who saw the ball go underneath his body. Chester were back in front three minutes after the interval, but Bury can only have themselves to blame. A comedy of errors between Fettis and skipper Challinor allowed Walters to ghost in for a simple tap-in. And although Bury went close through substitute Marc Pugh midway through the second-half, Walters rubbed salt into an already gaping wound with a last-minute strike on the counter.
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