Poole Town 2-2 Yate Town – Match Report
Poole Town were held at home against Yate Town on Saturday afternoon in a 2-2 draw.
Joe Lea and Pat Suraci named an unchanged starting eleven coming off the back of a 1-1 draw away to Hanwell Town last weekend.
The match got underway with the visitors having more of the possession in the early stages.
The first effort of the game fell the way of Poole’s Selim Saied on the 17th minute, but his effort trickled into the hands of Aaron Sainsbury in the Yate goal.
With 30 minutes on the clock, the deadlock was finally broken, Billy Lowes’ effort was parried away and kept alive by Gwengwe who lifted into the area with Selim Saied getting the decisive touch to poke it home and give Poole the lead.
The Dolphins thought they had doubled their lead only a few minutes later, this time Gwengwe was denied by the linesman’s flag.
Poole were looking to capitalise on this momentum through Ik Hill, but his volleyed effort was brilliantly kept out by Sainsbury.
The half time whistle went with Poole in the commanding position at the break.
The second half got underway with the visitors flying out the blocks and looking to find a way back into this one.
On the 55th minute, Yate found their equaliser through Josh Bennett who placed it past the outstretched arm of Adam Parkes to draw it back to level terms.
Following on from the equaliser, both sides looked dangerous and the end-to-end action was relentless.
With just under 20 minutes to play, Ryan Campbell brought down Yate’s Marlon Jackson inside the area and the referee pointed to the spot; Jackson stepped up and converted to give the visitors the lead.
With the time ticking over the ninety minutes, Ayo was fouled inside the penalty area and the referee produced another penalty, this time for the Dolphins.
Gwengwe stepped up and converted to make it 2-2 with only seven additional minutes to play.
The Dolphins sent everything at it and had chances to find that winner, but were unable to clinch it at the death with the referee blowing the full time whistle with it ending 2-2 at Tatnam.