Nuneaton Borough were looking to get back to winning ways after Charlie Dowd’s second-half equaliser earned a point against Hitchin Town at Liberty Way on Tuesday night.

Nuneaton started with an extremely high tempo leading to a chance for Matt Stenson in the opening few minutes. Chris Cox would flick the ball onto the number 9 who shot wide of the post.

After a flurry of free kicks over the next few minutes lead to multiple chances, Boro would finally break the deadlock in the 12th minute. St Ives looked to clear the ball upfield but gave the ball away to Ryan Beswick on the halfway line. Beswick looked up and noticed the keeper off his line before lobbing him with an audacious strike from just inside the opposition half.

We didn’t wait long to double the lead. After Charlie Dowd was fouled inside the box, Luke Benbow would hammer home from the spot on 18 minutes.

The hosts began to find their way into the game with multiple through balls looking for ex-Nuneaton wingers Enoch Andoh and Ravi Shamsi but the defence stood strong to keep them out.

Five minutes from Half Time and Tony Breeden made an unbelievable low save to deny Andoh. The Ghanaian hit the ball hard and low after receiving it on the shoulder of the last defender.

Half-Time: 2-0

After the break, the Cambridgeshire side came out all guns blazing.

A quickly taken free-kick played Enoch through on goal forcing Breeden to tip the ball over his bar.

In the 52nd minute, Nuneaton had the ball in the net again. After a conversation with his assistant, the referee decided to overturn the goal which Stenson had just scored, due to an offside.

St Ives maintained their pressure, with Shamsi narrowly missing the top right corner from a free kick minutes before the hour mark.

Five minutes from time the Boro were pegged back to 1-2 after a goal from the leagues third top goal scorer Jonathan Edwards.

Shamsi would once again have an opportunity from a free-kick, this time sending it over the bar from a dangerous area before seven minutes of added time were signalled.

Nuneaton would play out the final few minutes of added time with ten men after challenge on Stenson forced him off, with no changes left for us to make.

Full-Time: 1-2

Starting XI
13 Breeden
2 Cox (Forde)
3 Richards (Brogan)
4 Beswick ⚽️
5 Magunda
7 Benbow ⚽️ (James)
8 Dowd
9 Stenson
11 Mancinelli
18 Rowe-Turner
20 Osbourne

Unused Substitutes
6 McManus
15 Noble