RESURGENT SHAYMEN NOW SEVEN UNBEATEN

FC HALIFAX TOWN held on for a win over Bromley to extend their unbetaen run to seven league games despite late pressure from the visitors.

Goals from Niall Maher and Devante Rodney secured the points with Jack Holland seeing red for Bromley on the half-hour mark.

Shaymen manager Pete Wild praised his side for what he said was a deserved victory.

He told The NLP: “We were excellent first half and we put them under a lot of pressure.

“We always looked a threat going forward a were deserving of the three points.”

Bromley manager Neil Smith felt a slow start had cost his men. He said: “Going down to ten men, the response was excellent. If we started that game like we played with ten men we would have nothing to worry about.

But we started slow and there were warning signs early on.”

Town had the first real chance of the game as Jamie Allen went through on goal. A low shot was just about forced wide from Ryan Huddart to give Halifax a corner. Allen whipped it in and found Nathan Clarke at the back post, but his effort was straight at Huddart.

After 22 minutes Town hit the woodwork. Allen made a great touch to get away from two defenders before having a shot blocked. It came back out to Cameron King who fired towards goal only to be denied by the outside of the post.

On the half-hour mark Bromley were down to ten men after captain Holland brought Allen down on the edge of the box as he went one on one.

King played a short pass to Rodney who fired a lot shot on target. It clipped the bottom of the wall, but Maher was on hand to slot it away.

Town doubled their lead three minutes before the break thanks to Rodney. A long ball up front found Rodney who headed it over one defender and brought it down before beating a second.

Rodney fired a shot goalward and found the bottom left corner.

Bromley pulled one back in added time. A long free-kick after a foul from Cooper found Joe Kizzi at the back post who fired past Sam Johnson, who couldn’t keep it out despite getting a hand to it. Despite a slow start to the second half, Bromley looked to equalise.

After some possession around the Town box, Luke Coulson swung the ball into the box and it narrowly evaded any Bromley players as it bounced behind for a goal kick.

In the dying minutes of the game Bromley won a corner with Huddart going up.

The ball went into the box and Town put it behind for another corner. Again, the ball came in, but the header was straight at Johnson.