Mossley 1 Warrington Town 1

It finished deservedly all square at Seel Park, where these two sides largely cancelled each other out.

The game began with immediate action as straight from the kick off Mossley charged forward, and the ball was fed through to Lee Rick approaching the right corner of the penalty area. He lashed a powerful shot into the top right corner of the net, the goal timed at 18 seconds, with several groups of supporters still just entering the ground!

Rather than being stunned by this, Warrington instead reacted by pushing forward looking for an immediate leveller, and twice in the next 5 minutes there were dangerous low crosses from the right that narrowly evaded everyone as they travelled in front of goal.

Warrington continued to be the team on top for the next 20 minutes but were mostly restricted to little more than half chances, their big chance being in the 15th minute when the ball was crossed to the wide left of the 6 yard box, but from this angle the shot was skewed wide.

Then in the remaining 20 minutes of the half the teams became more evenly matched, with Mossley themselves creating a couple opportunities. First McNamara got the ball in space from 25 yards out but his shot was straight at the keeper, then later on Joe Heap hit a cross shot from the left that no-one could get a touch on as it travelled narrowly wide. 1-0 to Mossley at half time.

The second half continued to be fairly even with Warrington doing their best to push for the equaliser they deserved. And they got it in the 56th minute, from wide right of the penalty area near the byline a cross took a big deflection off a sliding Mossley defender, looping it over the keeper and perfectly into the path of Matt Cross to nod into the open goal from just a couple of yards out.

Mossley tried to respond to this and had occasional chances for the next 20 minutes, including a Nathan Taylor curling shot from the left side of the penalty area towards the right corner tipped wide by the keeper, a weak Steve Halford shot easily caught, a Harry Noon powerful shot pushed away by the keeper and another from Noon into the side netting.

Not that Warrington were just sitting back, they had a chance in the 84th min, a close range header from a cross was well saved. 5 minutes were added on giving both the opportunity to look for a winner, but both teams failed to get their final ball right, and a Warrington shot comfortably saved was all that happened, as a game of infrequent action fizzled out for a 1-1 draw.