First Half
Rangers started brightly with Luca Navaro looking sharp in the opening minutes, after some good work down the left he cut in onto his stronger foot and flashed the ball across the box, Jake Charles got on the end of it but couldn’t poke it home. Basford took a while to get going in the first half and against the run of play the took the lead in the 25th minute after a ball from Basford number 10 Kane Richards looped over goal keeper Jonathon Brown. Jake Charles nearly equalized for Rangers after his volley mid-way through the first half fizzed just wide of the Basford goal keeper’s post. It wasn’t a bad first half both teams had plenty of desire and played well. Ryanjay Malbon was replaced by ben Woods for Rangers in the 35th minute due to injury. 1-0 to Basford at half time.

Second half
Rangers went close early on in the second half after a dangerous delivery from a corner almost found its way to Thomas Tonks but he was unable to make contact with ball. In the 59th minute Jake Charles scored the equalizer for Rangers after he was put through on goal, he rounded the keeper and slotted the ball into the net 1-1. On 66 minutes Basford were down to 10 men after their number 7 and also captain Matt Thornhill was sent off following what was an extremely dangerous tackle on Rangers’ number 8 Thomas Tonks. Rangers looked the better team after the sending off and almost snatched the points late on after Luca Navaro hit the post with about 20 minutes remaining.
1-1 FT A great game of football between two very good sides the attendance for the game was 309.

Basford United: Collin Clifton Wilson Roma Galinski Dunn Thornhill(captain) Howes Marshall Richards James.
Stafford Rangers: Brown Burns Lennon Harvey Morrison- Derbyshire O’Neill Malbon Tonks Charles fletcher Navaro

Report completed by Luke Buckley