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Ludlow Men 1 West Bromwich Men 2 Ludlow Men started their Bodykraft West Midlands League Division One campaign with a tough home fixture versus West Bromwich at Leominster's Bridge Street Park on Saturday.

An experienced West Bromwich side were relegated from the Premier League last season and recently promoted Ludlow knew it would be a tough test in their first game in Division One.

West Bromwich took the lead after ten minutes when their striker hit a reverse strike through a crowd of players, leaving Ludlow's back-up goalkeeper, Matt Hall, with little view of the ball and no time to react before it found the back-of-the-net.

Following a Ludlow short-corner West Bromwich made no mistakes with their short-corner opportunity and put themselves 2-0 up after only 20 minutes. Ludlow dominated the last 15 minutes of the half and came close to getting a goal back as a couple of shots went agonisingly wide of the West Bromwich goal.

In the second half with West Bromwich seemingly content with their two goal lead and trying to sit-back, Ludlow made the visitors pay for their conservative approach when Kevin Urmston broke into the West Bromwich D' and slid the ball under the keeper to give Ludlow a well-deserved goal.

Ludlow's defenders, led by Kevin Williams and Adam Aspbury, were outstanding in the second half and gave the team a great opportunity to level the score as West Bromwich were under continued pressure. Ludlow captain, Stuart Richards, and vice-captain Paul Chubb, worked tirelessly to break-down the West Bromwich defence and Ludlow earned themselves a handful of short corners in the last 15 minutes. Unfortunately for Ludlow, the West Bromwich keeper performed exceptionally well and was able to make some excellent stick-saves to deny Ludlow the draw. It was a disappointing result for Ludlow after they had worked so hard, but there were many positives they can take from the game.

4:30pm Friday 5th October 2007

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