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By Will Jago, at Woodside Road |
Full Time: Whitehawk 3 Albion 1
Full Time: Gary Hart scores for Albion as they go down 3-1 to Whitehawk.
78: Lewis Dunk picks up a loose ball in the 18-yard box, and drives the ball goal-bound. Parr stands up to the challenge, and palms the ball to safety.
69: Goal! Whitehawk stretch their lead. Jamie Brotherton chases down a back-pass and nicks the ball past Poke, to slide the ball into an empty goal.
58: Elphick jumps highest from a Bennett corner, but his header is scrambled away by Parr.
46: Second half underway.
Half-time: Whitehawk 2 Albion 1
35: Goal! Whitehawk go ahead for the second time tonight through Wes Tate, who scooped the ball into the top right corner from six yards from a Luke Denton cross.
30: Goal! Albion equalise through Gary Hart. Whitehawk fail to clear a corner and the ball drops to Hart six yards out, who drives the ball home low to Parr's right.
27: Great cross by Sparrow on the right finds the head of Barker, but the Albion youngster couldn't beat Parr.
18: Albion almost replied instantly. Jamie Smith set up James Smith down the left, who crossed to the feet of Murray. The Albion striker turned but his shot was saved in the bottom right corner by Whitehawk keeper jack Parr.
15: Goal! Whitehawk open the scoring. A cross from the left by Martin Grant finds former Albion scholar Darren Budd, who shows great technique to volley the ball into the bottom right corner from 12 yards.
12: Cross-field ball by Sparrow finds Murray, who cuts inside on his right but blasts the ball wide to the keeper's left.
00: Kick-off! Gordon Greer starts in the heart of the Albion defence, after completing his move from Swindon Town this morning.
TEAMS
First half: (4-4-2) Walker; Cook, El-Abd, Greer, James Smith; Hart, Sparrow, Navarro, Jamie Smith; Barker, Murray.
Second half: (4-4-2) Poke; Whing, Elphick, Dunk, Painter; Bennett, Kishishev, Caskey, Dicker; Barnes, Holroyd.