Guiseley 2 Boston United 1: Lions hold on for their share

Local sport from the Boston Standard, Lincolnshire: bostonstandard.co.uk/sport, on Twitter @standardduncan

Published on 09/02/2013 16:59

A late rally was not enough to earn Boston United a point at Guiseley.

Ben Milnes’ 85th minute free kick lifted spirits, but the hosts - who have a fantastic record against Boston at Nethermoor - hung on courtesy of their two finishes.

The Lions needed just 44 seconds to take the lead.

Boston’s marking was far too slack when defending Wayne Brooksby’s left-wing cross, allowing Andy Pearson the space and time to loop his header over Dan Haystead and into the net.

The Pilgrims carved out two great chances to pull level, but with Spencer Weir-Daley through on goal he was denied by Steve Drench’s fine save.

Then Ben Milnes found himself in a similar position, only to drag his strike wide of the far post.

Milnes - who was turning the screw in midfield with some delightful passing - saw a 20-yarder simply saved by Drench before the hosts went on the offensive.

Ex-Pilgrim Kevin Holsgrove was finding space in the United box, although failing to unleash a strike, while Pearson put a free header over.

On 32 minutes, Boston’s Phil Watt suffered a head injury after colliding with James Walshaw, handing a debut to Paul Lister.

It took 10 minutes for the first real chance of the second half to arrive, but Guiseley’s Josh Wilson couldn’t get enough on his header to trouble Haystead.

Then, on the hour mark, United handed out their second debut of the day as Dan Lawlor replaced Keiran Walker.

But after that it was pretty much all the Lions.

Yet another header brought yet another save from Haystead as he scrambled yet another Pearson effort round his post.

Guiseley were coming into their own and Holsgrove almost extended the lead, but Haystead did enough to deny his strike.

However, that lead was doubled in the 65th minute.

James Walshaw’s header crashed against the crossbar, only for referee’s assistant Jane Simms to flag that it had crossed the goal line on the way down.

Haystead then saved further blushes by denying Josh Wilson’s low effort .

In a rare foray at the other end, Spencer Weir-Daley’s final touch of the day was a goalbound volley... off his knee.

The Boston striker was then replaced by Jordan Smith.

Walshaw looked odds on to make it 3-0 whyen he brushed Lister aside and beat Haystead, but his powerful drive flew inches off target.

But with five minutes left Ben Milnes handed Boston a lifeline.

His 20-yard free kick took enough of a deflection to beat Steve Drench, and hand the Pilgrims a glimmer of hope.

That glimmer was almost an equaliser after Anton Foster’s run culminated in Smith’s strikle being saved.

Nathan Stainfield then saw a header fly over as the Pilgrims suddenly had a spring in their step and, in the final few seconds, Marc Newsham saw his low effort smothered.

And that was it, Guiseley held on for a deserved win and Boston left Nethermoor having won just once in 11 visits.

GUISELEY: Drench, Hardy, Meynell, Rea, Ellis, Pearson, Brooksby (Marsh 76), Holdsworth (Lawlor 87), J. Wilson, Walshaw, Holsgrove (Mcwilliams 76): Subs (not used): M. Wilson, Giles.

UNITED: Haystead, Marshall, Mayo, Foster, Watt Lister 32), Stainfield, Walker (Lawlor), Milnes, Weir-Daley (J. Smith 70), Newsham, Fairclough; Subs (not used): Ward, Reid.

Ref: Adrian Holmes.

Sport

Looking for...

Featured advertisers

Jobs

Search for a job

Motors

Search for a car

Make Model Price from Price to

Property

Search for a house

Buy Rent

Bedrooms Price from Price from Price to Price to

What is a Cookie?
What is a Flash Cookie?
Can I opt out of receiving Cookies?
About our Cookies

Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.
This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) - a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.
Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

However, please note - if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.
The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:
- Revenue Science ►
  
  A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Google Ads ►
  
  Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Webtrends / Google Analytics ►
  
  This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.
- Dart for Publishers ►
  
  This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don't just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.
- ComScore ►
  
  ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.
- Local Targeting ►
  
  Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.
- Grapeshot ►
  
  We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.
- Subscriptions Online ►
  
  Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.
- Add This ►
  
  Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.
- 3rd Party Cookies ►
  
  We use Advertising agencies to provide us with some of the advertising on our websites. These include (but are not limited to) Specific Media, The Rubicon Project, AdJug, AdConion, Context Web. Please click on the provider name to visit their opt-out page.

Guiseley 2 Boston United 1: Lions hold on for their share

Top stories

Sport