Buxton 2 Chorley 2

 As the song goes 'it's 10 degrees, but it feels like minus 4' and add torrential rain to it and that wa the weather that greeted us at Silverlands on Tuesday night.

Buxton managed to salvage a point at the death, in fact with the last kick of 6 minutes of stoppage time. This meant that the fans went home happy, but at the same time they may have deserved more from this game.

Both teams were troubled by the conditions that were indeed difficult, but you would have thought that Buxton would be used to the 4G pitch and try and play it on the fall, but both teams were keen on the hit and hope and put it in the air approach. That said it was end to end stuff so entertaining enough and the first goal could have gone to either team.

It was Chorley who opened the scoring though through Harvey Smith. There was a hand ball in the lead up to the goal though, but the referee was facing the other way and who knows what the linesman saw. The rest of the half carried on in the same way as previously with both teams attacking and counter attacking, but it remained 1-0 to the visiting Magpies at the break.

Buxton came out firing on all cylinders for the second half and soon equalised through Brad Jackson, who was making his debut for the Bucks after signing on loan from Altrincham. He let rip from the right and scored a fantastic goal to equal up the scores. The lead was short lived though as Chorley were awarded a soft penalty on the hour mark and Conor Hall stepped up to restore the lead from the spot.

The remaining 30 (nearly 40 minutes as it happened) saw Buxton pushing and pushing and Chorley increasingly, understandably wasting time before Jim Simms stabbed home a cross from Diego De Girolamo to rescue a point. 









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