However, it was not a pretty sight with neither side able to string together more than three passes before they either hoofed it long or were dispossessed.

We had two almost identical chances inside the Anstey box with one of them paying off as the ball found the net.

Seven minutes in, a ball to the back post found Taylor, who took the shot on first time, but missed. He changed his positioning and shot with his right, but it was blocked.

Two minutes later, an almost identical ball goes into the box with Taylor at the back post. Again, he tried to hit it on the volley, but he missed. He managed to get a second shot away which beat the goalkeeper at his near post.

Anstey did not take the set back well as they almost equalised immediately from kick off as they found themselves with bodies in our box and the ball flying in for a chance on goal. However, it was cleared away.

The visitors scored their first of the night 18 minutes into the half. Duncan went in for a challenge and injured himself leaving us with ten men defending an Anstey attack. The ball was shifted to Thomas on the edge of the box, who got the ball out of his feet and left a left-footed curling effort loose towards the top left corner. King could not do anything other than watch as it flew into the corner.

Coden was replaced by Atwal before we restarted the game.

Following the goal, the next ten minutes are full of chances we created, but unable to finish.

Tristan found himself behind the Anstey defense but was unable to score as his efforts were always blocked by a defender.

The game became scrapy with both sides flying into challenges as the referee was giving plenty of free kicks for both sides all over the pitch.

Anstey had a chance in the 40th minute, but King did well to intercept a cross to the back post.

A half chance for Jahvan before the break as a ball into the box was met by him, but he could not direct it goal bound.

We began the second half quickly with Tristan having a shot go just wide of the bottom left corner a few minutes into the half.

King produced another good save as this time, Anstey were in behind one versus one with our skipper, but he stood tall and stopped the initial shot with Bucci coming in and clearing the ball.

In the 53rd minute, Anstey took their lead. A cross in from Thomas found its way into our net. King did not know what to do and bizarrely, the visitors were ahead.

We pushed and pushed for the equaliser but our chances were not finding the net. Keane kept putting in crosses that needed someone at the back post, Tristan was set up inside the box, but he blazed it over the bar and Evan dragged a shot wide.

Keane was booked around the hour mark was a late challenge.

Shaw replaced Tristan in the 65th minute.

We kept piling on pressure looking for the goal we needed as Hartmann had a good chance blocked, Bucci had a header cleared off the line with a knee from an Anstey player, multiple balls into the box were either put behind for a corner or flicked just out of the path of one of our players.

With ten minutes left, Dexter replaced Jahvan.

Betts had an effort fly over the bar in the 86th minute.

In the final minutes, Bucci had a header go over the bar at the back post, Dexter had a shot from range saved by the goalkeeper and Evan had a volley just missing the bottom right corner.

It just was not meant to be as the final whistle blew ending the game.

We go again on Saturday as we welcome Coleshill Town to the Family Only Stadium.