The new football season starts today with Ilkeston hosting Lincolnshire’s ‘Holy Blues’.
Updates from the NMG will appear here from 3pm.
Teams –
Ilkeston Town:
1 Yates, 2 Wafula, 3 Parker, 4 Perch, 5 Marshall T, 6 Minkley, 7 Brandy, 8 Dixon, 9 Cursons, 10 Meikle, 11 Walker.
Bench ; 12 Brown, 14 Markelic, 15 Robinson, 16 Kirby-Moore, 17 Daniel.
Gainsborough Trinity:
1 Render, 2 Simpson, 3 Jackson, Helliwell, 5 Tuntulwana, 6 Lancaster, 7 Butroid, 8 Braithwaite, 9 Southwell, 10 Howe, 11 Preston.
Bench: 12 Sani, 13 Wharton, 14 Stacey, 15 McLoughlin 16 Conway.
It’s close to kick-off time now. The teams are out, the NMG is filling up and the clocktower stand is full of chattering fans.
Peep! The new season is underway.
Ilkeston are in red, Trinity in yellow and black. Ilkeston are attacking the car park end.
Ilkeston win a corner early on but it’s cleared.
Trinity show skills and Jonathan Wafula is Ilkeston’s saviour with a super tackle as they threaten. Matt Yates makes a good save.
L’Varn Brandy replaced by debutant Colin Daniel. 0-0. 16 mins
Trinity’s hot shot Declan Howe tries a volley which isn’t far wide.
There’s not much to choose between the teams at the moment. Both having a go when chances present themselves.
Meikle is brought down on the edge of Trinity’s area. Walker takes the free kick and it’s inches wide. It looked like it was curling in.
GOAL for Gainsborough Trinity. The visitors take the lead. Howe shoots and Wafula trying to clear slices the ball over the line. 0-1. 45 mins,
Half time: Ilkeston 0 Gainsborough Trinity 1
That was a blow for Ilkeston, conceding just before the break.
[Other HTs – Charity Shield: Man C 0 Man U 0; D2: Tranmere 0 Notts County 0]
The second half begins with a cloud burst and Ilkeston a goal behind.
Trinity score straight away – but luckily for Ilkeston it’s disallowed for offside.
GOAL for Ilkeston. Colin Daniel equalises on his debut. The ball took a deflection to go out of keeper Render’s reach. 49 mins. 1-1.
GOAL for Gainsborough. The visitors are back in front with a goal by Howe after intercepting a pass and firing past Yates. 55 mins. 1-2.
Lindon Meikle goes off injured and is replaced by newcomer Connor Brown, 60 mins.
Ilkeston are pushing forward when they can.
Render makes a good save from an Ilkeston header.
The attendance at today’s match is 612.
Walker finds Cursons with a clever flick but Cursons’ shot is stopped by Render.
GOAL for Ilkeston. A corner kick causes problems and Wafula does a brilliant overhead kick and Render can’t prevent the ball ending up over the line – given as Render own goal, I think. 2-2. 72 mins.
Ilkeston are going for it now.
An exciting run into the area by Dixon results in a corner. Walker’s corner is met by Parker’s header but it’s over the bar.
A third debut-maker comes on for Ilkeston as Sam Parker is replaced by Harvey Kirby-Moore with ten minutes to go.
Trinity break but Ilkeston’s back men thwart the danger.
Five mins added time indicated.
Dixon replaced by Markelic.
Full time: Ilkeston 2 Gainsborough Trinity 2
