Boston United 4

Anthony Elding 22' 83' Drew Broughton 48' 69'

Wrexham 0

 

Saturday 09 December 2006

 

Kick Off @ 15:00



Match Report

Wrexham’s away from returned to its norm for this season with a comprehensive 4-0 defeat at Boston, who started the day in the relegation zone, and this means that Wrexham have only picked up one point this week against two teams who were second and third bottom of the league.

The two previous away games at Scunthorpe and Torquay showed encouraging signs that Wrexham were turning the corner away from the Racecourse but the third away game in the week took its toll on a Wrexham team that has clocked over 1,000 miles on the road in a week.

The day got off to a bad start when Mark Jones, who had overcome his illness, injured his knee in the warm up and this forced Denis Smith into changing his named starting line up with Levi Mackin starting in Jones’ place.

Boston enjoyed the best of the opening exchanges and looked to be in a promising position in the open minute until the offside flag went up. The most noticeable incident after this came in the tenth minute when Shaun Pejic had to deal with a ball in from the left.

Josh Johnson then conceded a free kick and after Wrexham dealt with the initial ball, Ingham required two attempts to collect the second cross in.

Wrexham’s best chance came from the boot of Michael Ingham when one of his long clearances forward was within inches of embarrassing his opposite number, former Wrexham keeper Andy Marriott, after he was deceived by the bounce.

Wrexham almost fashioned a chance from open play but had to settle for a corner when Johnson’s cross was turned behind by the Boston defence with Smith and Llewellyn in threatening positions. Marriott punched the corner clear but Boston conceded a free kick for a foul on Johnson but this set play was uncharacteristically wasted by Ferguson.

Boston threatened at the other end when Canoville picked out Broughton in the box but his header down to Green was wasted by the front man as he shot over. Wrexham then forced their second corner of the game but after this was cleared Boston opened the scoring in the twenty second minute

The Wrexham defence were caught out when Josh Johnson drifted over to the right flank and this left acres of space on the left. Boston took full advantage of this as Elding converted from close range after Canoville had time and space to measure his cross into the six yard box.

It got worse for Wrexham when Steve Evans was shown a red card after he reacted to a late challenge on him by Brunt and the Wrexham defender got his marching orders for the second time this season after he lashed out with his feet in retaliation to the challenge on him. Broughton also earned a caution for the initial foul on Evans.

All this came in the space of a disastrous ninety seconds for Wrexham who had to reshuffle with Danny Williams dropping back into defence and Chris Llewellyn adding the extra man in midfield with Wrexham now adopting a 4-4-1 formation.

Boston again threatened when Wrexham failed to cut the ball into the box but Ingham pulled off a good save from Drew Broughton but the offside flag had already been raised.

With a third of the game gone, Wrexham were struggling in having any shots on goal with the closest they came was from one of Ingham’s clearances that almost caught out Andy Marriott in the Boston goal.

Wrexham were leading the corner count and made it 3-0 when Marriott was unable to prevent a clearance from going out of play but Danny Williams was penalised for pushing when Ferguson delivered the ball into the box.

Wrexham had a lucky escape with five minutes of the half left when slack marking allowed two Boston players in space to convert what looked like a second goal but the ball evaded both Rowson and Elding at the back post.

Wrexham were even luckier moments later when Broughton found himself clean through on goal. Pejic did well chasing back to narrow down Broughton’s angle and his chip over Ingham rebounded back off the bar and the ball bounced kindly for Wrexham, as Green just missed out on the rebound.

Wrexham managed to hold out through the three minutes of injury time with Kennedy going the closest to extended Boston’s lead when he fired over whilst under pressure from Shaun Pejic.

Wrexham started the second half with the same personnel but Denis Smith took the opportunity during the break to switch formations to 3-4-2 and this almost paid dividends after they forced an early free kick but this was cleared by the Boston defence.

The optimism was short lived as Boston doubled their advantage four minutes after the restart although Broughton looked yards offside when he headed in from Green’s cross from the left.

Wrexham’s only shot on goal from open play came after Llewellyn had flicked the ball over his head to enable him to break clear from his marker but Kevin Smith was only able to shot straight at Marriott from Llewellyn’s cross.

With quarter of an hour gone, Denis Smith made a double substitution with Juan Ugarte and Neil Roberts replacing Kevin Smith and Josh Johnson. Boston also took this as an opportunity to make change with Lee Canoville being replaced by Jamie Clarke.

It should have been 3-0 soon after when Kennedy found himself in space but he mis hit his cross when Broughton was free in the box and Ingham made a comfortable save. It was almost three when the flag stayed down as Kennedy advanced into the area but he shot wide when in a good position.

Chris Llewellyn ended up in the book midway through the second half for a lunging foul but the game was over in the sixty ninth minute when Broughton got his second and Boston’s third of the afternoon. It certainly was a day to forget for Wrexham when two players went for the same ball and this allowed Broughton to have a free shot a goal that was deflected past Ingham off Danny Williams.

With the game petering out to a finish, Tony Elding made it 4-0 after Wrexham were not alive to a short corner played to Rawson. After collecting the ball, Rawson curled it in right footed for Elding to glance in his second of the afternoon past Ingham.

It was almost five when Green got in behind Roche but he curled his effort wide of Ingham’s goal and thankfully referee Dean Whisedale brought the game to an end.

Match Reaction

Denis Smith: "I will say the squad we have is one capable of being towards the top end of the table. When we went down to 10 men we wanted to try to keep things tight and hopefully sneak a goal at the other end. But their second goal killed off the plans we had - although I had a serious issue about it because their scorer looked well offside." [Source: TEAMtalk]

Boston United

Starting XI:

01 Andy Marriott
02 Lee Canoville 58'
24 Ian Miller
04 Paul Ellender
03 Tim Ryan
25 Jason Kenedy
05 Mark Greaves
27 David Rowson
08 Anthony Elding
09 Drewe Broughton 84'
10 Francis Green 87'

Subs:

07 Bradley Maylett 84'
15 David Farrell 87'
16 Jamie Clarke 58'
19 Richie Ryan
22 Danny N'Guessan

Stats:

Shots on Goal: 11
Shots on Target: 4
Shots off Target: 7
Possession: 43%
Fouls Conceded: 15
Corners: 1
Yellow Cards: 1
Red Cards: 0

Wrexham

Starting XI:

01 Michael Ingham
02 Lee Roche
04 Shaun Pejic
05 Steve Evans
15 Mike Williams
16 Levi Mackin 73'
08 Danny Williams
10 Darren Ferguson
17 Josh Johnson 57'
25 Kevin Smith 57'
11 Chris Llewellyn

Subs:

03 Ryan Valentine 73'
13 Michael Jones (GK)
20 Matty Done
23 Neil Roberts 57'
30 Juan Ugarte 57'

Stats:

Shots on Goal: 1
Shots on Target: 1
Shots off Target: 0
Possession: 57%
Fouls Conceded: 15
Corners: 4
Yellow Cards: 2
Red Cards: 1

Match Notes

Venue Yorke Street
Attendance 1,706
Half Time Boston United 1 Wrexham 0
Referee Dean Whitestone

Other Match Reports

Wrexham Dragons: Final Whistle Podcast


BBC: Boston 4-0 Wrexham


Boston Fever: Boston 4 Wrexham 0


Boston United FC: Boston 4 Wrexham 0


TEAMtalk: Pilgrims slay the Red Dragons


Wales on Sunday: Boston 4-0 Wrexham


Wrexham FC: Boston 4 Wrexham 0


Wrexham MAD: Boston United 4 Wrexham 0

League 2 Results

Accrington Stanley 3 MK Dons 4
Boston United 4 Wrexham 0
Bristol Rovers 0 Hartlepool 2
Chester 4 Lincoln City 1
Grimsby 2 Shrewsbury 1
Hereford 1 Torquay 1
Mansfield 0 Bury 2
Notts County 1 Macclesfield 2
Rochdale 0 Peterborough 1
Stockport 5 Darlington 2
Walsall 0 Swindon 2
Wycombe 1 Barnet 1

League 2 Table

   
PLD
GD
PTS
1 Walsall 21 22 47
2 Swindon 21 11 40
3 Milton Keynes Dons 21 8 39
4 Lincoln City 21 13 38
5 Wycombe 21 9 38
6 Peterborough 21 7 38
7 Hartlepool 21 5 32
8 Notts County 21 3 31
9 Darlington 21 0 30
10 Stockport 21 1 29
11 Bury 21 0 29
12 Hereford 21 0 29
13 Bristol Rovers 21 -5 28
14 Chester 21 2 27
15 Shrewsbury 20 7 26
16 Grimsby 21 -10 26
17 Mansfield 21 -6 24
18 Wrexham 20 -13 23
19 Barnet 21 -9 22
20 Accrington Stanley 21 -5 21
21 Rochdale 21 -7 20
22 Boston Utd 21 -8 20
23 Torquay 21 -9 20
24 Macclesfield 21 -16 13

Next Game

Walsall (h), Coca Cola League 2

Saturday 16 December 2006, Kick Off @ 15:00