Salford City 1-1 Colchester United

Matt Smith's 22nd goal of the season was not enough for Salford as Colchester rescued a late point in a draw.

The travelling U's, who have enjoyed an upturn in form since Danny Cowley's appointment in early January, started the brighter.

Cameron McGeehan was denied by Alex Cairns, Riley Harbottle headed over from close range and Tom Hopper failed to convert an open goal from an acute angle.

Their wastefulness in the final third was punished by the Ammies, with Smith benefitting from good work by Callum Morton to tap in before the interval.

The imperious striker, who becomes League Two's joint-top scorer alongside Notts County's Macauley Langstaff, thought he doubled his account after the restart.

However, Smith was adjudged to have strayed into an offside position when he nodded home an Elliot Watt free-kick.

Spurred on by the disallowed goal, Colchester fought in pursuit of a leveller and they were rewarded when substitute Bradley Ihionvien struck with 15 minutes remaining.

Cowley's outfit came close to completing a shock turnaround late on, but Cairns thwarted Ihionvien and Declan John blocked on the line.

Match report supplied by PA Media.

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Line-ups

Salford

Formation 4-2-3-1

1Cairns
20ChestersSubstituted forLundat 58'minutes
5MariappaBooked at 83mins
16Tilt
3John
7WatsonSubstituted forHumblesat 84'minutesBooked at 88mins
6Watt
56MalcolmSubstituted forIngramat 58'minutesBooked at 90mins
9HendrySubstituted forMcAlenyat 38'minutes
39MortonBooked at 74minsSubstituted forMcLennanat 84'minutes
17Smith

Substitutes

2Ingram
8Lund
11McLennan
18McAleny
23Berkoe
31Torrance
47Humbles

Colchester

Formation 5-3-2

1Goodman
26RichardsonSubstituted forReadat 62'minutes
22HarbottleSubstituted forEgboat 54'minutes
6Dallison-Lisbon
5HallBooked at 90mins
3IandoloBooked at 45mins
27SmithSubstituted forIhionvienat 73'minutes
13McGeehan
10Chilvers
14Hopper
24AkindeSubstituted forJayat 73'minutes

Substitutes

7Jay
16Read
18Egbo
20Mingi
29Hornby
33Marshall-Miranda
48Ihionvien

Referee:: Kirsty Dowle
Attendance:: 2,438

Match Stats

Home TeamSalfordAway TeamColchester

Possession: Home46%; Away54%

Shots: Home11; Away16

Shots on Target: Home5; Away7

Corners: Home2; Away4

Fouls: Home12; Away15

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Match ends, Salford City 1, Colchester United 1.
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Full Time
Second Half ends, Salford City 1, Colchester United 1.

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Booking
Connor Hall (Colchester United) is shown the yellow card.
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Booking
Ethan Ingram (Salford City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
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Noah Chilvers (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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Foul by Ethan Ingram (Salford City).
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Attempt saved. Elliot Watt (Salford City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Ethan Ingram with a headed pass.
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Offside, Salford City. Matt Smith is caught offside.
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Foul by Bradley Ihionvien (Colchester United).
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Adrian Mariappa (Salford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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Attempt saved. Matt Jay (Colchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Bradley Ihionvien.
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Attempt missed. Matthew Lund (Salford City) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ethan Ingram.
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Booking
Liam Humbles (Salford City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
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Cameron McGeehan (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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Foul by Liam Humbles (Salford City).
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Hand ball by Matt Jay (Colchester United).
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Corner, Salford City. Conceded by Connor Hall.
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Substitution
Substitution, Salford City. Connor McLennan replaces Callum Morton.
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Substitution
Substitution, Salford City. Liam Humbles replaces Ryan Watson.
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Offside, Colchester United. Cameron McGeehan is caught offside.

As It Stood

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Mansfield	33	17	12	4	67	29	38	63
2	Stockport	34	18	9	7	66	37	29	63
3	Crewe	34	17	10	7	62	46	16	61

4	Wrexham	34	17	9	8	60	45	15	60
5	MK Dons	34	17	7	10	55	44	11	58
6	Barrow	33	14	11	8	47	39	8	53
7	Walsall	34	14	9	11	52	47	5	51

8	Gillingham	34	15	6	13	32	39	-7	51
9	Crawley	33	15	4	14	49	49	0	49
10	Newport	34	14	7	13	51	53	-2	49
11	Morecambe	33	13	9	11	48	52	-4	48
12	Harrogate	34	14	6	14	41	52	-11	48
13	Wimbledon	34	12	11	11	47	39	8	47
14	Notts County	34	14	5	15	69	66	3	47
15	Accrington	34	13	7	14	47	44	3	46
16	Bradford	33	12	10	11	41	39	2	46
17	Swindon	35	11	10	14	60	62	-2	43
18	Tranmere	35	12	4	19	53	52	1	40
19	Salford	35	10	10	15	52	64	-12	40
20	Doncaster	33	11	6	16	43	57	-14	39
21	Colchester	34	8	8	18	45	62	-17	32
22	Grimsby	32	6	12	14	44	60	-16	30

23	Forest Green	34	6	9	19	34	61	-27	27
24	Sutton United	35	5	11	19	40	67	-27	26

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3 comments

Comment posted by andy, at 23:27 27 Feb
Think Colchester will be ok ...it will be two from the bottom three to drop out
Decent performance tonight even though the other results didn't drop kindly .
Comment posted by Peter crawley, at 22:28 27 Feb
Another relegation battle for sure again for col u need to make wins out of all these drawn games we aren't doing as well as we hoped since the cowley brothers took over. Up the col u
Comment posted by EastEnglandlad24, at 22:26 27 Feb
Colchester United will still stay up in League 2.

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