Cheltenham Town 1 - 1 Yeovil Town

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Tuesday Nov 06 2007 07:45

A late goal from Gavin Caines earned Cheltenham Town a vital point in their fight for League One survival and denied Yeovil Town what would have been a welcome three points.

Cheltenham are without a win in nine games but they showed enough fighting spirit in this match to suggest they have the stomach for a battle.

Yeovil, meanwhile, are stuttering for a repeat of last season's play-off heroics and have now won only once in eight league matches.

Cheltenham started positively enough with striker Damian Spencer seeing an early shot blocked by Nathan Jones and Caines heading wide from a corner taken by former Town player Andy Lindegaard.

But the visitors stood strong and made life difficult for a Cheltenham team low on confidence and able to attack only in sporadic bursts.

Yeovil were handed a goal with 31 minutes played when Richie Jones got free on the right-hand side of the box and his cross was only half cleared by Caines.Lloyd Owusu was on the spot to lift the loose ball over the diving body of goalkeeper Shane Higgs to claim his seventh goal of the season.

Spencer and Owusu both went close with chances at the start of the second half, but the longer the game went on, the more it became a war of attrition between Cheltenham's increasingly desperate attacks and Yeovil's determined defending.

In the end it took a fine left-footed delivery from veteran former Aston Villa defender Alan Wright to open up the Yeovil defence.

His ball into the box with only a minute left was met by Caines, who atoned for his earlier mistake by flick heading the ball beyond stranded goalkeeper Steve Mildenhall to level the scores.

  • 90
    That's it, it's all over, the referee has blown the final whistle.
  • 90
    The referee has booked Paul Warne.
  • 89
    Goal!! Gavin Caines scores for Cheltenham.
  • 79
    James Walker is being taken off, Wilfried Domoraud has come on in his place.
  • 74
    Paul Connor is replaced by Sosthene Yao.
  • 57
    Terry Skiverton is booked for unsporting behaviour.
  • 48
    Matthew Rose is replaced by Justin Cochrane.
  • 46
    The second half is under way with the score currently at 0 v 1.
  • 45
    The ref has blown his whistle for half time.
  • 42
    Matthew Rose is booked for unsporting behaviour.
  • 31
    Goal!! Yeovil have scored with Lloyd Owusu putting it in the back of the net.
  • 29
    Jeremy Gill is booked for unsporting behaviour.
  • 0
    It's 7:45pm on Tuesday, November 6th, the match has kicked off.

Statistics

Cheltenham Town
Shots on target 6
Shots off target 7
Shots off bar/post 0
Fouls 10
Offsides 2
Corners 9

Yeovil Town
Shots on target 3
Shots off target 7
Shots off bar/post 0
Fouls 13
Offsides 4
Corners 4

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