Yeovil Town shared the points with Bournemouth in a 1-1 draw last night at Huish Park, an 80th minute Phil Jevons penalty cancelling out James Hayter's first half spot kick.
It was a game that never really got going in front of an 8,000+ crowd which itself was strangely muted at times. Both teams attempted to play passing football, the visitors with marginally more success, but the game as a whole was scrappy with few clear-cut chances on goal from either side. It was no real surprise that both goals came from penalties: Efe Sodje was adjudged to have fouled Andy Surnam in the box on the 20-minute mark - the 3rd penalty that Efe has conceded in the last 7 games; James Hayter sent Steve Collis the wrong way to put the Cherries into the lead. With the Glovers struggling to create anything of note before the break one felt that another goal from Bournemouth would have been decisive, but Yeovil survived the half without any further real alarms and in the second half worked extremely hard to put the visitors goal under more pressure, albeit without much in the way of end-product until Phil Jevon's late strike after Matty Harrold was bundled over in the box. The point apiece was all either side deserved from the game in the end.
Final score: Yeovil Town 1 - 1 Bournemouth. A full match report will be online later today.
Injury news: Liam Fontaine was carried off just before half-time with a knee injury - it's not thought that there is any ligament damage and he will be assessed again on Boxing Day. The point gained from the match puts Yeovil up to 15th position on 29 points, 7 ahead of the relegation zone and 7 away from the play-off places - though of course that will change on Boxing Day with all other League One teams in action then. In the meantime the squad has been given Christmas Day off to spend with their families before returning to training themselves on Boxing Day, ahead of their next match away to Tranmere on Wednesday 28th December, 7.45pm kick-off.
*Apologies for the appalling headline, I couldn't resist it.
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