Bromley dropped two points last night in a 2-2 draw at lowly St Albans City having twice being in front.

A lack of accuracy in front of goal, combined with a failure to deal with set pieces in defence, was their main problem as the Lillywhites were forced to settle for their second draw of the campaign.

The Hayes Lane Club stated on the front foot, with Pierre Joseph-Dubois forcing a good save out of former Bromley keeper Joe Welch and then seeing his header cleared off the line by John Kyriacou.

City were denied by a timely clearance by Jack Holland, before the Bromley defender headed wide at the other end, while Louis Dennis and Joe Anderson saw crosses sliced narrowly wide of goal by St Albans defenders.

Ali Fuseini sent a low shot wide and then Joseph-Dubois steered a Ugo Udoji cross just wide.

The visitors had a let off on 27 minutes when Geoff Mitchell’s dipping 35 yard shot beat Seb Brown to bounce off the top of the bar, and three minutes later the Bromley keeper was quickly out to block Charlie Gorman’s effort.

Bromley opened the scoring on 34 minutes when Dennis collected possession on the edge of the area before stepping inside his marker to curl a shot wide of Welch.

Harry Grant then saw his shot cleared off the line by Lee Chappell, Dennis’ rebound follow up was blocked by Welch and Joseph-Dubois’ low effort was eventually cleared by a defender.

Those misses proved costly as the home side levelled the scores two minutes before the interval. 

Chappell’s 35 yard throw-in was headed on by Loick Pires to James Kaloczi at the far post and the unmarked midfielder had a simple header into the corner of the net.

Welch prevented Bromley regaining the lead two minutes into the second half when he got down to Moses Ademola’s close range header, but the visitors were back in front after 52 minutes.

Joseph-Dubois won a corner which was played short to Grant, whose cross was headed home by Danny Waldren.

But the lead was short lived as Chappell’s free-kick just before the hour picked out an unmarked Ben Martin and his header flew past Brown.

Either side could have won the game in the latter stages. 

Ademola wasted two good opportunities and Welch made an excellent diving save from Waldren, while Joe Anderson cleared off the line from Kaloczi’s header.

Bromley were denied when Chappell cleared off the line from Waldren, Mitchell fired into the side-netting following a decent run into the area and another long Chappell throw in caused consternation in the Bromley goalmouth.

But at the end of the day Bromley have only taken one point from two games against opposition that, if they are to be considered serious title contenders, they should be winning against.

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Bromley: Brown, Udoji, Anderson, Fuseini, Holland, Bailey-Dennis, Joseph-Dubois, Waldren, Dennis (Slabber, 58), Ademola (Birchall, 75), Grant, Subs not used: Williams, Scannell, Agu. Att: 403