06-Sep-2011 - South Shields 2 Newcastle Benfield 2

1 - Cunningham
2 - Pearson
3 - Rodenby
4 - Kirkup
5 - Smith
6 - Brabbs
7 - Galas
8 - Chapim
9 - Benjamin
10 - Burnell
11 - McAvoy

12 - Grant
13 - Briggs
14 - Houshby
15 - Colvin
16 - Parkin

The match got under way with Shields facing a strong wind but despite this, started strongly. Indeed it took less than 2 minutes to find the back of the Benfield net when Benjamin placed a superb pass through the defence into the path of Tony Burnell who fired into the bottom left hand corner past the diving Grainger.

McAvoy cuts it out

Within minutes the floodlights were showing signs of pulsing with the lights going very bright and dim. After 25 minutes the referee took the two sides off and gave the ground staff the opportunity to solve the problem.

Chapim battles

After a delay of 15 minutes the two sides took to the field again and Benfield took full advantage of the disruption to get an equaliser within a couple minutes of the resumption when the Shields defence failed to clear the ball under pressure and the ball was scrambled home.

Burnell holds off the challenge

By this time the floodlights were again causing concern but Shields stormed forward and again went in front, this time with a great goal by Alex Benjamin running onto a defence splitting pass from Galas and firing right footed across Grainger into the bottom left hand corner of the net.

Benjamin gets the congratulations

Benfield quickly responded when Gilberto Chapim was dispossessed just outside his own box and the ball was passed quickly into the box and following another scramble the ball was put into his own net off Shaun McAvoy.

Timely tackle

With the lights constantly going off and on, the referee called a halt to the game at half time and a further replay would be required.

Chapim gets the ball forward