IT’S amazing what a goal can do for a team.

When Worcester City conceded cheaply inside 60 seconds against Hednesford, you got the feeling it was going to be a long afternoon.

Then, midway through the first-half, Sean Geddes set himself for a free-kick 25 yards out and fired an unstoppable shot into the top corner.

Excellent Geddes goals were commonplace during the giddy heights of November and December and his latest was just what the doctored ordered.

It ended a run of nearly 500 minutes without a goal, stretching back to the victory at Stalybridge Celtic on December 20.

Suddenly, the City that had gone AWOL for the past month, were back.

Despite falling behind again to a superb opportunistic Jack Thomas long-range effort 11 minutes before the break, Carl Heeley’s side weren’t rattled.

Instead, they finished the first period on top and went on to boss the second and can count themselves unfortunate not to have taken three points.

Worcester were unrecognisable from the side that lost their way against Gloucester, creating a host of chances.

Even before Mike Symons’ equaliser, new recruit Aaron Brown had headed wide, while Connor Gater somehow blazed over with keeper Dan Crane stranded outside his area and only defenders on the line.

In the end it was Symons who pounced to draw them level for a second time with only his fifth goal of the season in the 72nd minute after Ellis Deeney’s drive had deflected into his path.

The striker might have had a hat-trick, twice rolling his marker to first fire wide and later bring a fine stop from Crane.

This was more like the Symons of old, showing there is more to his game than just holding the ball up.

He was also given short shrift from referee Daniel Meeson, despite being battered from pillar to post by the opposition, and was booked for dissent when sarcastically celebrating a decision going his way.

Wayne Thomas thought he had wrapped up victory when, after being thwarted by Crane’s reflexes, stuck the rebound in by way of an overhead kick. The assistant, however, raised his flag for offside and cut short the central defender’s celebrations.

Victory would have been no less than City deserved from a feisty encounter in which Hednesford more than played their part but a point is not to be sneezed at given the month they’ve had.

Nor should it be forgotten that they had been given a second bite of the cherry in this fixture after getting out of jail when trailing 3-0 with 15 minutes to go in the Boxing Day abandonment.

But City can feel more positive heading into tomorrow’s match against Oxford City.