Waltham Forest 0 v 0 ROMFORD Attendance 62

With their visitors having had an unwanted two week break it was the Stags who had more of the possession right at the start but Boro then quickly got into their stride and almost took the lead on five minutes when Nick Reynolds headed over after just five minutes from a Lewis Francis left wing corner.

As it did for the rest of the game the game then swung from end to end but goal scoring chances were negligible as play was mostly confined to between two penalty areas any shooting being of a long range nature and when action got into either areas the keepers and their defences dealt adequately with any danger such as it was.

Romford’s Francis went close with one of these from twenty yards on the mid half mark but it looped just over the Forest crossbar and the home side themselves forced Atu Ngoy in the visitors goal to have to get down low at his right hand upright to collect a Stag’s free kick from a dangerous position just outside the visiting penalty area on thirty minutes to more or less complete the first half scoring opportunities.

Boro’s best chance of the game came again just five minutes into the restart action when Reynolds found himself free just outside the home penalty area from a James Ishmail long ball in from the right but, with Aaron Ormond in the home goal stranded on his own penalty spot, the Romford striker’s lob sailed just over an empty net..

Thereafter the conditions and frustrations due to lack of success for both sides turned the game into a somewhat niggly affair which seemed to cause more stoppages for minor injuries and free kicks than action in the midfield area and the game came to an end goalless with the concensus among the watching crowd being that just one goal could well have won the game had it been scored.

WALTHAM FOREST 0
ROMFORD 0

Romford squad. Atu Ngoy, James Ishmail, Joe Oates, Jack Barry, Matt Toms, Paul Clayton, Michael Sammut, Tom Richardson, Nick Reynolds, Ryan Imbert, Lewis Francis. Unused substitutes: Jamie Dicks, Adam Salmon, Hussein Isa and Ben Jones.

yellow cards. Paul Clayton 56, Matt Toms 73