Ashton Town 1-1 Cheadle Town

There was no feeling other than disappointment as Ashton failed to take all three points against Cheadle on Saturday. This game though did have everything other than an eventual winner.
The first half was all Ashton and just how we wern't out of site after 45 minutes was anybodies guess. Firstly an unmarked header from 8 yards out was off the mark and a shot was blasted over the bar from 10 yards out as Baxby raced through. Another free header, this time from Lee Crompton, was headed straight into the keepers arms. On 33 minutes all that pressure paid off when the ball broke lose 8 yards from goal Kev Hill beat the advanceing keeper to poke it underneath him to make it 1-0 to Ashton. Again a few chances came and went before Cheadle's first chance of the match which came just before half time as a header flew over the bar.
At Half time Cheadle got the hairdryer treatment and it showed in the second half as they came out with a point to prove. A copule of long range efforts were dealt with by Andy Hewitt in the Ashton goal with relative ease. Then the turning point of the game. Ashton had an effort cleared off the line and as the rebound was smashed in somehow the Cheadle keeper blocked.
Then came the save of the match from Andy Hewitt as Cheadle's Alan went through on goal only to be denied by Hewitt somehow managing to get his hand to the ball as Alan tried to lift it over him as he committed himself.
We then needed a short break in play when a little dog decided he wanted to join in only to be chased away.
Ashton tried to score the vital second goal that would of killed the game and another attacke lead to Roberts, the Cheadle Centre Half, receiving his marching orders for a second bookable offence.
Unfortunately with 4 minutes to go the equaliser came. A free kick on the edge of the are was palmed away by Hewitt but Alan was the quickest to ract and he squoze a shot from the tightest of angles into the back of the net.
Ashton then went down the other end and thought the game was won when a header was knocked in from a yard out only to be ruled offside.
Then Chris Walton and Cheadle's Logan were sent off for well handbags at ten paces.
Cheadle had a clear chance to win the game but the free header was put wide. They too thought they had won the game when the ball was tapped home from 5 yards only to be ruled out for offside.
Somehow Cheadle never snatched it when the ball came in from their right and an unmarked O'Brien put his shot over the bar from no more than 9 yards out.
Judging by the amount of chnaces we created in the firsthalf it could only have been a sense of dissapointment not to take all three points

Final Score Ashton 1 Cheadle 1

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