ROMFORD 0 (0) - (0) 0 Maldon & Tiptree Attendance 105

The visitors were reduced to ten men on forty minutes when Timmy Spillane was red carded for a professional foul when Ryan Imbert was sent clean through. Right on half time and they should have been reduced to nine men when Paul Shaves took out Ryan Imbert when the muscular forward was once again in the clear but the inept referee deemed the centre back to have played the ball.

The game had started brightly for the Boro with full back David Ottley forcing the Maldon keeper into a full length diving save on seven minutes and James Ishmail thought he had scored his second goal of the season but was rightly adjudged to have pushed his opponent when heading home an Abs Seymour free kick.

Maldon had a few chances with the busy Leon McKenzie causing a nuisance but he failed to test the keeper with any of his chances. At the other end Romford looked like opening the deadlock when Nick Reynolds tackled the keeper with the ball falling to Abs Seymour, the energetic midfielder unselfishly tried to set up Tom Richardson but Maldon just managed to get a defender back to repel this attack.

Ryan Imbert had Romford’s best chance firing over from six yards Tom Richardson’s pass from the right wing and the two teams went in at half time level.

The second half had just as few goal attempts as the first with Maldon coming close when a deflected drive was well saved by Boro stopper Atu Ngoy. Despite an abundance of possession and pressure Romford failed to even get a shot on target with Nick Reynolds and Tom Richardson both firing just over. On a positive note it was another clean sheet for Romford who have only conceded twice in 2014 but they seemed lackluster up front despite manager Paul Martin rotating his squad after Thursday's win against Erith.

ROMFORD 0
MALDON & TIPTREE 0

ROMFORD: ATU NGOY, DAVID OTTLEY, JAMIE DICKS, JACK BARRY, JAMES ISHMAIL, PAUL CLAYTON, JOE OATES, ABS SEYMOUR, RYAN IMBERT (ROBBIE NORRIS 84), NICK REYNOLDS (ROB WHITNELL 84), TOM RICHARDSON. SUBS NOT USED AARON OMAND, MATT TOMS, SCOTT TRUMAN.

YELLOW CARDS: JAMIE DICKS