Worcester City 2 Histon 3 (From Worcester News)

4:57pm

Full-time. Eventful but a disappointing defeat.

4:57pm

Lee Ayres meets Deeney's free kick and heads wide.

4:56pm

Tempers are frayed now. Not long left.

4:56pm

Taylor goes down in the box, City want a penalty, the referee doesn't want to know. Birley barges into the ref in protest but I think that's more accidental.

4:55pm

Thompson is forward, meets the corner but can't do anything with it.

4:55pm

Mills' cross is put behind for a corner.

4:53pm

The 90 minutes are up. No idea how much time to add on.

4:52pm

Taylor nods the ball down in the box, Birley scuffs his effort.

4:51pm

City have had chances to win this, they haven't taken them.

4:48pm

Birley gets in a timely interception with Grant Roberts about to pull the trigger.

4:47pm

Taylor and Glover link up, the latter puts his effort over the bar under pressure from the defence.

4:46pm

Freeman lets fly from distance, Thompson gathers.

4:44pm

Histon cannot handle the pace of Taylor, nor his strength for that matter.

4:43pm

This time Deeney pings a long ball for Taylor but again the keeper wins the battle.

4:42pm

Thorley lifts a lovely ball through to Taylor but he can only find the keeper's arms.

4:41pm

Taylor bursts into the box, bulldozes his way past Danny Fitzsimmons and draws a save from the keeper.

4:40pm

Breeze playing right back and marks his arrival with a couple of crunching challenges.

4:38pm

Sub. Histon (74 mins): Matthew Waters replaces Lewis Taaffe.

4:37pm

Sub. City (74 mins): Matt Breeze comes on for Jacob Rowe.

4:36pm

Sheppard outpaces Whitehead before driving the ball way over.

4:36pm

Taaffe has the ball in the net but the flag was already up. Some sloppiness creeping in from City.

4:34pm

Thorley sends a curling drive into the arms of Kitscha. Good effort.

4:32pm

Yellow card. City (69 mins). Greg Mills for foul on Zak Mills. 

4:30pm

City have done really well to get back into this. Can't afford to let Histon back in.

4:28pm

End to end at present, entertaining contest.

4:23pm

Matt Birley's free kick drops to Glover who has two bites of the cherry but fires wide.

4:20pm

Taylor heads over the bar from Mills' free kick. City have the bit between their teeth.

4:19pm

Yellow card. Histon (56 mins). Zak Mills for a foul on namesake Greg.

4:17pm

Yellow card (54 mins). City: Elvins for an off the ball incident at a free kick.

4:16pm

Yellow card (53 mins). Histon: Taaffe for foul on Mills.

4:12pm

The attendance is 804. Not bad considering the doubt over the game.

4:12pm

Taaffe drags a shot wide as the visitors seek a third.

4:10pm

Histon again out the blocks the quicker.

4:09pm

Second period under way.

4:09pm

Double sub at half time sees Michael Taylor and Matt Birley replace Mike Symons and Kyle Patterson.

3:52pm

Half-time whistle goes but City have been booed off.

3:51pm

Mills gets into the box, challenges the keeper and the chance goes.

3:49pm

Cross from Deeney is aimed for Danny Glover but the defender gets there first.

3:48pm

Free kick from Sheppard is high and wide.

3:44pm

Histon playing with the confidence which belies their lowly league position.

3:41pm

Porter takes two quick corners in successions. The second is easily caught by Thompson.

3:40pm

Freeman gets past Deeney, crosses and it needs Elvins to get in an interception.

3:39pm

Break in play for treatment to Jack Uttridge.

3:35pm

Porter gets in a good cross from the left, nobody there to meet it though.

3:35pm

Porter gets in a good cross from the left, nobody there to meet it though.

3:33pm

City have gone very flat at the moment and are second best.

3:29pm

Histon have a penalty following Deeney's handball from Freeman's cross. Whitehead also booked for protesting.

3:28pm

Nicholas Freeman has an effort parried by Thompson. A warning for the hosts.

3:25pm

The ball has been changed, not too sure what was wrong with the last one.

3:24pm

City still pressing but Histon have had the better of things in the last few minutes.

3:19pm

Shot from Kane Sheppard is straight at Glyn Thompson.

3:18pm

Symons does really well to escape the clutches of two defenders, plays in Elvins and his effort is deflected wide. The corner finds Jacob Rowe whose header is caught by the keeper.

3:16pm

Free kick from Mills is somehow hacked clear for a corner under the Histon bar. The flag kick is wasted.

3:15pm

Ellis Deeney's cross finds Patterson, he slips the ball to Mike Symons and his volley goes out of the ground.

3:11pm

Levi Porter allowed to run a long way into the City half but his shot is blocked.

3:09pm

Good move sees Kyle Patterson free in the box but he is offside.

3:06pm

Tom Thorley is flattened by James Stevenson but eventually manages to get to his feet. It's a drop ball, Rob Elvins fires it back to the keeper and is on target. That would have been controversial had it gone in.

3:05pm

Bright start from the visitors, no doubt keen to make an early impact.

3:04pm

Game kicks off.

2:51pm

Gutted I'm not playing....... But come on lads #3points #wcfc
— @tylerweir15 26 January 2013

2:48pm

Today's match is the only one in the league to beat the weather. The pitch looks good which is credit to groundsman Tom Allcut and his team of volunteers.

2:44pm

Tyler Weir misses his first game of the season because a facial injury, meaning Jacob Rowe starts at right back.

Otherwise City are unchanged from the goalles draw against Altrincham to weeks ago.

City: Thompson, Rowe, Deeney, Thorley, Whitehead, Ayres, Patterson, Elvins, Symons, Glover, Mills. Subs: Taylor, Breeze, Reece, Birley, Dormand.

Histon: Kitscha, Z Mills, Uttridge, Clerima, Fitzsimmons, Roberts, Freeman, Stevenson, Sheppard, Taaffe, Porter. Subs: Waters, O'Malley, Logan, Sessions, Clark.

Referee: Simon Barrow.