Bromley, making their first visit to the Recreation Ground since April 1999, returned home with a point in an honourable 1-1 draw against Aldershot Town on Saturday, after the hosts had been reduced to ten men ten minutes from time.

In a drab first half which was dominated by both defences, chances on goal were few and far between.

Both sides saw plenty of the ball between the eighteen yard boxes, but seemed reluctant to have strikes at goal.

The first attempt did not come until the 21st minute when Aldershot’s Tom Richards’s 25 yard effort was wildly wide of Chris Kettings’s right hand post.

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The home side took a lucky lead in the 38th minute when Kettings seemed to have Chris Walker’s 30 yard volley covered, but it took a wicked deflection off a defender to wrong foot the goalkeeper to nestle in the opposite corner of the net.

Bromley’s response was immediate, with the lead only lasting three minutes.

Ali Fuseini fed Ugo Udoji down the right flank, and the full-backs first time cross was met by Jack Holland, who planted a firm header into the top corner of the net past the former Bromley goalkeeper, Phil Smith.

The second half followed a similar pattern with just a little more goal-mouth action.

Aldershot could have retaken the lead on 56 minutes when Ben Chorley missed his header from a left wing cross, and Richard Brodie had a clear header at goal but the front runner put his header wide with only the Bromley goalkeeper to beat.

Smith then tipped Moses Emmanuel’s back heel over the bar, following good combination play by Joe Anderson and Reece Prestedge.

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A period of domination from the home side followed with Charlie Walker, Jim Stevenson and Walker again all having chances to put the home side back in front, before they were reduced to ten men.

With ten minutes remaining, Jake Gallagher was shown a straight red card for a dangerous two footed tackle on Louis Dennis and, following a skirmish, Sean McGinty was booked for getting involved unnecessarily.

In the closing stages Fuseini shot wide from a promising position, and Anthony Cook’s shot was saved low down by Smith, before the Aldershot keeper earned his team a point with a brilliant save in injury time when he denied Emmanuel with a point blank tip away.

Bromley: Kettings, Udoji, Anderson, Fuseini, Chorley, Francis, Dennis, Prestedge (Minshull, 64), Holland, Emmanuel, Cook, SUBs (not used): Rodgers, Kiernan, Goldberg, Tumwa. Attendance: 1,617

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