Eastwood Town 0-0 Vauxhall Motors

Feb 10 2010 by Our Correspondent, Birkenhead News

VAUXHALL will feel frustrated they didn’t leave Coronation Park with all three points after they produced a superb battling display against fourth placed Eastwood Town.

There were very few chances in this game played on a pitch in a poor condition.

Both sides started brightly but Eastwood had the first couple of chances. Man-of-the-match Brian Moogan did well to stop Meikle as he burst into the box on six minutes and two minutes later Moogan was on hand again to clear a dangerous cross from Ross Gardner.

Vauxhall were looking solid at the back and began to create chances, hitting the Badgers on the break.

Early in the second half, captain Josh Wilson lead a quick attack and was unlucky not to find Karl Noon, with the Eastwood defenders struggling to get back.

Wilson then volleyed over from the edge of the box which was blocked after Dodgson’s corner had bypassed the crowded box.

It was hard to tell which of the two teams was in the play off places and which was bottom of the league. Vauxhall could have taken the lead with the best chance of the game on 57 minutes when Moogan’s cross was hooked off the goal line by Paul Riley, before Noon could pounce.

On 85 minutes, Vauxhalls squandered another great chance. Pacey striker Karl Noon lead a quick attack with a run from his own half which stretched the Badgers defence but with options both left and right, he over hit a through ball to new signing Lee Dodgson and Eastwood Keeper Jan Budtz saved.

In the dying minutes, Moogan fired a dangerous free kick just past the post and Eastwood could have snatched victory when Markel Bailey played Danny Holland in behind the Vauxhall defence but under pressure he fired weakly at the keeper.