East Grinstead 1 - 1 Broadbridge Heath

Heath travelled the short distance to East Grinstead Town last Saturday, Heath were without Ashley Mutongerwa who is away but welcomed back Club Captain Andy Waddingham from Injury in an otherwise unchanged Squad.

Heath started brightly and were passing the ball around well on an excellent surface, after 5 minutes a Louis Evans corner nearly found its way into the net but for a good save for the EG Keeper.
On 15 minutes the Home side forced Hadfield into a great save, a cross from the left hand side was met by a good run and header but Hadfield tipped the shot over the bar and and away for a corner.
Heath took the lead after 26 minutes when a flowing move down the right hand side saw Kyle Sim cross the ball for Ben Aubrey to score against his old side and put Heath 1-0 up.
The next 15-20 minutes were pretty scrappy with lots of fouls, corners and long range shots well off target by both sides until the 40th minute when a Heath corner ended in a massive goal mouth scramble, Heath eventually shooting wide of the EG goal, one last chance for Heath be for Half time when Lemon went on a mazy run and let fly from 20 yards which was comfortably gathered by the EG keeper, and the game remained 1-0 into Half time.
Only 2 minutes into the restart East Grinstead's Kiye Martin was sent off for a 2nd Yellow and Heath now looked in full ascendancy and in the 52nd minute another cross from Sim was met by Waddingham but his header was just over.
A few minutes later it looked like Heath would extend the lead when a good move down the left side resulted in a cross from Lemon finding Louis Evans, his shot was brilliantly saved by the EG keeper and the ball flicked up and onto the cross bar to safety.
On 68 minutes Heath a cross from Sim was met by Lemon at the back post and his effort clearly hit the hand of an EG defender, but the referee waived away the Heath appeals and the game remained 1-0.
Heath continued to press without creating any clear chances then on 85 minutes a rare attack by EG down the left resulted in a throw in, the EG player trying to launch the ball into the Heath 18 yard box completed left the ground and whilst Heath were appealing the blatant foul throw the ball fell to Dacruz on the edge of the area and his effort crept in at the back post to give East Grinstead a leveller against the run of play and down to 10 men.
Heath threw everything at it for the last 5 minutes but were unable to find the way past the EG keeper.

MOM; Kyle Sim

Simmo said afterwards: Really disappointed at only picking up a point here, we did more than enough to get the 3 points but again small margins cost us.

Team: Hadfield, Achempong, Sim, Bromage, Brackpool, Penfold, Evans, Lemon (Lindsey 85), Waddingham (Buchanan 70), Aubrey, Doughty (Berry 67).