Downham Town 2 Waltham Abbey 2

 Downham closed out their season in the Isthmian League North before presumably returning to the Eastern Counties Premier with a good performance in the sun with a beer festival going on in the background. It was a good opportunity for Downham to close a difficult season off on a high. Waltham, who couldn't finish higher or lower than third on the other hand have the playoffs to look forward to as they look to go in the opposite direction. That being the case, you couldn't have blamed Waltham if they had taken things easy, but that was not to be the case.

After just 2 minutes Luke Delandes gave the visitors the lead with Downham still asleep, although it has to be notes with quite an experimental defence. Things looked like they were going to get worse just a couple of minutes later when Waltham were awarded a penalty. However, Charlie Congreve was on hand to save it and keep the score to 1-0. Luke Delandes had other ideas and on the next Waltham break skipped brilliantly through the Downham defence and finished excellently to make it 2-0 to the visitors within the first 10 minutes and all this despite missing a penalty. At this point, it did actually feel like it could be a very long day for Downham. Waltham continued to attack and Prince Domafryie looked especially lively on the left wing. However, against the run of play it has to be said, Downham got themselves back in the game through a Harvey Murkin goal on 38 minutes, so they went in at the break with just the one goal behind.

The second half was very different as Downham seemed to have woken up. Waltham seemed to be getting frustrated and some over exuberant tackles were going in. On the 67th minute Downham were awarded a penalty and Charlie Royle, who was on as a sub was able to take advantage and pull the teams level. Neither team could find a winner though. You have to wonder why Waltham were taking it so seriously though with the playoffs looming (unless some of the players were fringe players). Losing the goalkeeper, who went off injured late on and a sending off in the last minute might come back to bight them in the next game.






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