Shaymen held at home by Boston despite dominant second-half performance

Lennon Wheeldon put the visitors ahead in the first-half before Town came roaring back after the restart, with Conor Carty equalising.

The Shaymen then laid siege to the Boston goal, but somehow failed to find the winner.

It took Town a while to warm-up, but by the time Boston scored, the hosts had started to build some momentum.

There was a good chance for Tommy McDermott, making his home debut, but he could only head straight at Louie Chadwick from Raheem Conte's cross.

That was sandwiched in-between Terrell Agyemang's tame shot and Tom Cursons' shot wide for Boston.

The Shaymen were gradually gaining more control over the contest, and starting to play some nice stuff.

A lovely touch by Ben Tollitt found TaytTrusty, whose through ball played in Conor Carty, but his shot at an angle was saved by Chadwick.

Trusty was involved again when his pass found Tollitt on the left, who cut in on his right and brought another decent save from Chadwick.

But, against the run of play, Wheeldon unleashed a terrific shot from 25 yards into the bottom corner after he was allowed to turn into space too easily by two Halifax markers.

From then until half-time, Town's response wasn't good enough, with the hosts far too flat and one dimensional: Boston has responded far better to the opening goal and now looked the more cohesive side.

But within five minutes of the restart, Halifax should have led.

First, Carty reached Bardell's header into the box, taking a great first touch before producing a fantastic shot on the turn from 15 yards.

Then, a minute later, Chadwick produced a magnificent save to keep out Shaun Hobson's prod towards goal from Conte's cross.

McDermott was then denied by Chadwick after heading Tollitt's cross on target before Tollitt's effort straight at the keeper after a lovely one-two with Conte.

The atmosphere, and Town's performance, had been lifted drastically. Where was this in the first-half?

The Shaymen were in total control, all they were missing was the second goal.

Cruz Allen should have done better than fire straight at Chadwick from just inside the box, before Trusty's goalbound effort was deflected over.

Chadwick then did brilliantly again when he read Tollitt's dinked finish one-on-one to keep it out.

A cross by Tollitt nearly snuck in, Trusty's shot hit the top of the bar and then Chadwick arguably produced his best save of the lot by somehow keeping out Trusty's header.

It was relentless, Town had created enough chances to last the whole of next month, never mind win the match but Boston held out.

Halifax: Grant, Bardell, Flint, Hobson, Conte, C Johnson, Trusty, Allen, McDermott (Douglas 62), Tollitt, Carty (Kawa 90). Subs not used: Johnson, Wainman, Warburton, Hugill, Morgan-Smith.

Scorer: Carty (47)

Attempts on target: 14

Attempts off target: 8

Corners: 7

Boston: Chadwick, Sachdev, Teale, Grimes, Gent, Sutton (Hammond 79), Wheeldon, Holohan (McBride 66), Aboh (Holmes 79), Agyemang, Cursons (John-Lewis 63). Subs not used: Faxon, Shipley, Canavan.

Scorer: Wheeldon (30)

Attempts on target: 3

Attempts off target: 5

Corners: 5

Referee: Aaron Jackson

Attendance: 1,164 (118 away)

Town man of the match: Plenty of contenders. I'll go for Ben Tollitt, who caused havoc down the left in the second-half. So much of Town's good play came through him.