Poor start continues for Town

WARRINGTON Town’s poor start to the season continued with their fourth consecutive defeat as they went down 1-0 at Ossett Town.
In a scrappy game there was little to choose between the two sides with Daniel Toronczak tapping in the only goal of the game after 19 minutes.
Warrington handed a debut to former AFC Fylde goalkeeper David Stevenson, (pictured right) who replaced the injured Paul Pritchard in the starting line up.
Town had the better of the early exchanges, with midfielder Kyle Hamid shooting wide from outside the penalty area before Chris Gahgan forced Ossett’s keeper Steve Dickenson into a fine one handed save, after fine work by the returning Adam Carden. Midfielder Miles Smith was first to go close for Ossett, his long range effort forcing a fine flying save from Stevenson. The home side took the lead in the 19th minute, prolific striker Daniel Toronczak poking home from close range, after the Town defence had failed to deal with a long throw into the penalty area.
Town looked to get back into the game immediately, but were not really able to create much in the way of goal scoring opportunites, indeed, it was Smith who was next to go close, driving narrowly wide of the upright. As half time got closer, Town created possibly their best two chances of the game, first Anthony Hickey (pictured left) narrowly failed to get a toe to midfielder Kyle Hamid’s drive into a packed penalty area, before Chris Thompson forced another fine save out of Dickenson, who stuck out an arm to save the ball, when appearing to go the wrong way.
The home side started the second half brightest, with Town captain Tom Hardwick being forced to clear a Ossett shot from off his own goal line before Hickey went close for Town, his cross cum shot rebounding away to safety off the cross bar with Dickenson beaten. Both sides went close just on the hour mark, Gahgan seeing his shot deflected narrowly wide before Hardwick deflected a cross from Ossett winger Luke Richardson narrowly across the face of the goal.
Town’s best chance of the second half, saw Dickenson smartly off his line, to deny Gahgan as he was about to pull the trigger. As the game got closer to a finish, Town got more desperate for an equaliser but it was the home side who went closest to scoring, substitute Steve Bennett forcing Stevenson into a fine save before River Humphreys was forced to clear in a dangerous position. Town almost snatched an equaliser late on in the game, full back Matt Doughty seeing his far post cross fall onto the roof of the net with Dickenson beaten.

Top picture shows Sam Finlay taking on the Ossett defence while above Kyle Hamid attempts a shot.

Town: David Stevenson, Duffy, Doughty, Humphreys, Hardwick, Hamid (Wright, 86), Carden (Wade, 78), Finley, Hickey, Thompson (Brown, 70), Gahgan, sub not used: Shipton