Tenbury United 2 Brereton Social 2

IN_SPITE of a producing a sluggish performance after the Chistmas break, Tenbury showed enough character to twice fight back after conceding goals, to deservedly take a West Midlands League Division 1 point off Brer-eton at Palmer's Meadow. With both teams in good form before the Christmas break, and within a point of one another in the table, the draw was the form result.

The early play was evenly contested with both defences holding the upper hand as players struggled to settle into a rhythm. Karl Pearson did go close to opening the score but failed to deceive the tall keeper with an attempted chip from a one-on-one situation.

The visitors opened the scoring ten minutes before the break. When a long ball was pumped downfield a game of head tennis between the Social forwards left a hesitant defence confused, resulting in the ball being driven past Byron Davies.

Ryan Morris and Mike Foster switched flanks at the break and the move soon paid dividends as the former levelled the score within ten minutes of the restart. Morris beat his man, shrugged of a couple of challenges and succeeded where Pearson failed, with a chip, to complete a fine individual goal.

Ten minutes later, United were behind again as the centre forward produced a neat glancing header to beat Davies in-spite of him getting a hand to the ball. Brereton pushed forward in an attempt to kill the game but the United defence stood firm.

Ashley Botwood muscled his way through and set up George Pearson who showed nice control before drilling a shot for the equaliser. Play then became disjointed and the final whistle arrived with no further chances.