Droitwich Sports (2) 3

Chasetown Reserves (1) 2

Midland Combination

Division Three

DROITWICH can count themselves lucky to have come away with all three points in this match.

Sports were 2-0 up and cruising against a well-drilled Chasetown team, only to be pegged back to 2-2 after an hour.

It took a penalty from hat-trick hero Carl Nesbitt to settle the game in Droitwich's favour two minutes from time.

Droitwich started soundly with Nesbitt making the Chasetown keeper pull off an outstanding save from a six-yard volley after nine minutes.

The impressive keeper was carried off after 17 minutes following a goal mouth scramble, leaving Chasetown with a central defender in goal.

Chasetown should have gone ahead on 22 minutes when the forward was presented with a one-on-one with Sports keeper Watson, but blazed over from ten yards.

Droitwich broke the deadlock on 34 minutes when Simon Peters crossed for Carl Nesbitt to glance a header past the stand-in keeper. Nesbitt got his second on 37 minutes after his marvellous first touch allowed him to blast home from eight yards.

Chasetown never gave up and got back into the game when their busy number nine finished well on 42 minutes.

After the break, Chasetown should have equalised on 51 minutes after a shot from 25 yards was acrobatically turned around the post by Watson and the referee gave a goal kick, much to Sports' fortune.

However, Chasetown drew level after Williams thought he had shepherded the ball out for a throw in. But again, the busy Chasetown number nine never gave up the chase, won the ball and crossed for the Birmingham outfit to equalise.

At 2-2 Droitwich were losing some discipline, with Shaw and Peters both getting booked.

But with five minutes remaining, Sports burst into life with Henning hitting the post before Nesbitt coolly slotted home from the penalty spot after the Chasetown defender handled in the six-yard area.

Man-of-the-match Carl Nesbitt took his goal tally to 13, but Droitwich will have to look at their discipline and composure when they travel to in-form Littleton in the Worcestershire County Cup on Saturday.