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Vauxhall Motors 1 Worcester City 0 (From Worcester News)
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Vauxhall Motors 1 Worcester City 0
Updated 5:13pm Saturday 9th March 2013 in Sport
By Steve Carley - Midlands Sports Journalist of the Year 2013, @stevecarleyWN
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- 55 mins: Stott 1-0
4:58pm
Worcester City lose for the fifth game in a row.
4:57pm
City piling forward but the hosts are standing firm.
4:56pm
Mills unable to make the most of the time he's having on the ball.
4:55pm
Tom Hannigan putting himself on the line to clear for the Motormen.
4:54pm
Thorley lines it up, hits the wall but now it's a corner.
4:53pm
Five minutes to add on and City have a free-kick on the edge of the box.
4:50pm
About three minutes of normal time left.
4:50pm
Time running out for City. A fifth straight defeat is on the cards here.
4:47pm
We're heading for an end to end finale. Has the game finally come alive?
4:46pm
City trying to build some pressure out of sheer desperation. Latest move ends with Mills' cross being caught by the keeper.
4:45pm
It's City's attacking play versus Motors on the break.
4:43pm
SUB. City (80 mins): Charlie Reece comes on for Tyler Weir. Last throw of the dice for the visitors.
4:40pm
Weir sends over a cross but again it's too easy for the keeper.
4:37pm
It's a corner for Worcester. Thorley delivers, Stuart Whitehead is in the mix but the hosts clear their lines.
4:36pm
City giving the ball away with increasing regularity.
4:33pm
SUB. Vauxhall Motors (70 mins): Obi Anoruo comes on for goalscorer Ashley Stott.
4:33pm
SUB. City (70 mins): Greg Mills replaces Michael Taylor. Can he inject some energy?
4:29pm
Tyler Weir finds Taylor and he shoot at keeper Jones. Getting closer?
4:28pm
The game has opened up now but City are in desperate need of a goal. They haven't scored for more than two and a half games now.
4:24pm
Sammons touches the ball to Glover and he clears the bar. Might have got three points in the rugby though!
4:24pm
Vauxhall Motors (61 mins): Karl Clair following that challenge on Sammons.
4:23pm
Sammons is felled and City have a free-kick in a dangerous position.
4:21pm
Suggestions that Sammons got the final touch to Stott's strike.
4:19pm
SUB. Vauxhall Motors (55 mins): Louis Moss on for Karl Noon.
4:18pm
Vauxhall Motors (55 mins): Shot from Karl Clair takes a deflection and leaves Glyn Thompson helpless. The hosts take the lead out of the blue.
4:16pm
Thorley with it but Elvins loses out in the air to Andy Nicholas.
4:16pm
Rob Elvins tries a shot and forces a corner via a deflection. Can they do something with this?
4:14pm
Stott breaks into the box, Shabir nips in to thwart the danger.
4:14pm
City again seeing a lot of the ball but not doing much with it.
4:09pm
Injury update: Deeney has gone to hospital with a suspected broken ankle.
4:08pm
Second-half under way.
3:52pm
3:51pm
City (45+1 mins): Breeze gets booked for that challenge.
3:51pm
Matt Breeze has clattered into Danny Fearnehough and the midfielder is getting a lecture from the referee.
3:50pm
Two added minutes to play.
3:50pm
City finishing the half on top with the visitors building some pressure.
3:49pm
An ambulance has arrived at the ground for Deeney following his earlier ankle injury.
3:48pm
Sammons getting through plenty of work in midfield as City try to inject some momentum.
3:45pm
A City move is ended by the linesman's flag but there is precious little to get excited about at the moment.
3:42pm
Glover gets the ball into the six-yard box but the defenders prevent it getting to Michael Taylor.
3:40pm
A cross from Shabir Khan on the left is picked off by keeper Jones.
3:36pm
SUB. Vauxhall Motors (31 mins): Conor Roberts-Nurse comes on for Steven Wainwright. He's still feeling the affects of challenge with Deeney.
3:34pm
Thorley's shot is blocked and he hits the rebound at keeper Zac Jones.
3:33pm
Chances few and far between at present. Game could do with livening up a bit.
3:31pm
Wainwright is back on his feet and normal service is resumed.
3:29pm
SUB. City (25 mins): Lee Ayres replaces Ellis Deeney. That should see Shabir Khan switched to left-back.
3:29pm
Deeney is carried off but Wainwright needs treatment as well.
3:27pm
Deeney is clattered by a challenge from Steven Wainwright and he will need to come off. That's the last thing City need with their injury list at the moment.
3:26pm
Karl Clair's free-kick is punched by Thompson and the ball goes behind for a corner. Glover heads the flag-kick clear at the near post.
3:25pm
Free-kick for City. Deeney finds Danny Glover but that move comes to nothing.
3:20pm
Mahon drills wide following a surging run.
3:18pm
Deeney forced to scramble the ball away following Craig Mahon's cross.
3:16pm
Thompson saves from Noon following cross from Ashley Stott. It's a corner but the City keeper is equal to that.
3:16pm
Ashley Sammons' shot earns a corner. Tom Thorley takes it but the ball is headed clear.
3:15pm
Vauxhall looking a threat on the break. Worcester will need to be wary of that.
3:11pm
Karl Noon breaks forward but Glyn Thompson races out to put him off.
3:09pm
City keeping the ball well at present without probing.
3:07pm
Ellis Deeney returns to left-back but Ashley Sammons appears to be in the holding midfield role with Rob Elvins playing at the apex of a midfield diamond.
3:05pm
Under way at Rivacre Park.
3:04pm
The teams are out but the kick-off won't be at 3pm given as it's now almost five past.
2:45pm
There are four changes to the Worcester City team that lost at Halifax.
Ashley Sammons comes into midfield for only his second start of the season, while Matt Breeze, Shabir Khan and Michael Taylor are in.
Matt Birley, Danny Edwards, Lee Ayres and Mike Symons make way.
Worcester City: Thompson, Weir, Deeney, Thorley, Whitehead, Shabir, Sammons, Elvins, Taylor, Glover, Breeze. Subs: Ayres, Birley, Reece, Mills, Sargeant.
Vauxhall Motors: Jones, Wainwright, Fearnehough, Hannigan, Nicholas, Noone, Mahon, Clair, Rutter, Stott, Noon. Subs: Anoruo, Moss, Roberts-Nurse, Kocis, Ellison.
Referee: A Hendley (West Midlands).
2:30pm
Probably my last away game this season before I start my new job. Any chance of a win boys? #WCFC
— @jess_beauty537 09 March 2013
