Aldershot prove party poopers with upset
THE Hatters returned to SK3, following three successive matches in different competitions on the road, but the homecoming saw them bow out to Aldershot in their FA Cup Second Round replay.
In a tie selected for live television coverage at Edgeley Park for the second year running at the same replay-stage of the Cup, substitute Olly Scott drove home the only goal in the closing stages to earn the ‘Shots’ a deserved trip to League One West Bromwich
Albion in the Third Round and leave County without a win for six games in all competitions.
County took to the field on a mild mid-December Wednesday night, and showing just one change from the League Two starting line-up at Morecambe over the rather stormier, preceding weekend – with Callum
Camps replacing the injured Antoni Sarcevic. The National League visitors, meanwhile, left unaltered the 11 that had begun the original tie in Hampshire 10 days previously.
The Hatters struck the inaugural shot of the night with just over a minute on the clock, as Kyle Wootton cleared the crossbar. And five minutes later, Camps tested visiting goalkeeper, Jordi van Stappershoef, who dived to parry the midfielder’s effort from distance.
Aldershot’s first attempt on goal was fashioned after 17 minutes – courtesy of Tyler Frost, whose low drive from the edge of the area was gathered up by Ben
Hinchliffe. And County’s Number One was called into action again five minutes later to chest away a shot from Jack Barham, following good work on the left by Josh Stokes whose brace at the Recreation Ground earlier in the month had earned his side the replay.
At the other end, Camps danced his way into the