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  • Kick-off: 19:30
  • Venue: 96.6 TFM Darlington Arena
  • Attendance: 2628
  • Referee: Pike, M

Live Commentary

90 mins

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

81 mins

Darlington are replacing Clark Keltie with Ricky Ravenhill.

80 mins

Neil Austin is being taken off, Rob Purdie has come on in his place.

80 mins

David Hunt is being taken off, Danny Hall has come on in his place.

70 mins

Darren Moss is being taken off, Stuart Nicholson has come on in his place.

63 mins

Goal!! Darlington have scored with Joe Colbeck putting it in the back of the net.

56 mins

Colin Murdock goes into the referees book for unsporting behaviour.

46 mins

The second half is under way with the score currently at 1 v 0.

45 mins

The ref has blown his whistle for half time.

27 mins

Goal!! Julian Joachim scores for Darlington.

0 mins

It's 7:30pm on Tuesday, November 6th, the match has kicked off.

Match Report

Darlington suffered a heavy weekend loss but it was back to winning ways for Dave Penney's side with a comfortable victory over a Shrewsbury side who flattered to deceive.

Manager Gary Peters felt that his side deserved something out of the game following their second half performance.

But the match statistics show that Darlington keeper David Stockdale made his first save in the 76th minute and, apart from a brave save from Dave Hibbert in the dying seconds, it was a fairly comfortable evening for the man between the sticks.

Darlo won the game thanks to two wide men. In the 27th minute former Aston Villa striker Julian Joachim played an excellent one-two with defender Neil Austin and when Joachim found himself in space inside the area his low shot was struck low into the bottom corner of the net past the stranded Glyn Garner.

In the second half a shot from Marc Tierney in the 48th minute went close for the visitors, but Darlington struck back and the Shrews goal was breached yet again in the 62nd minute when defender Alan White headed the ball out to on-loan winger Joe Colbeck.

He played a one-two with Gregg Blundell and when Colbeck received the return pass he fired the ball beyond the despairing dive of Garner.

Darlington ended the game brightly and three minutes from time Blundell saw his rising drive from the edge of the area flash narrowly over the crossbar.

In the dying seconds Town poured forward in search of some form of consolation and when Hibbert broke clear with only Stockdale to beat it looked a certain goal, until the keeper bravely dived at the on-rushing striker's feet to deny the frontman.

Disappointingly for promotion chasing Darlington the game was watched by a stadium record low crowd of only 2,628.

Most of the missing crowd will have stayed at home in the warmth watching the Champions League. But they missed a cracker.

Darlington Team

Shrewsbury Town Team

Darlington

Shrewsbury Town

Corners

1 4

Fouls

9 7

Goal attempts

16 7

Shots off target

6 5

Offsides

2 3

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