We Are The Stags Online

(Short Report)

When two teams can serve up such an exciting game as this, there can be nothing better to do on a Saturday afternoon! Both teams wanted to play football, both teams wanted to win.

From the start it looked like the Stags were going to get three points and when Fola Orilonishe out paced the Dartford defence to cross for Leon McKenzie to shoot home after 24 minutes everything looked rosy. Both teams looked for the next goal but had to wait until the 43^rd minute when Henry headed in from a corner for Dartford’s first. Was there a foul on the home ‘keeper, the referee (who had an excellent game) said no.

The second half saw the same end to end pure football from both sides and things looked good for the Stags when Wes Thomas headed home an Orilonishe cross on 59 mins. Jermain Hughes continued to take the Dartford defence apart from the right wing but it was a defensive nightmare that brought Dartford level on 75 minutes when home defender and ‘keeper Nej Hussein failed to communicate and Harvey headed in for the og.

The game swung back to the Stags and at least three shots were blocked on the line before ‘keeper Kevin Hudson made an amazing save from Darren Duporte to save the point for Datrtford.