Macclesfield Town 1 Chester City 2

Oct 1 2007 by Alec Doyle, Chester Chronicle

AFTER showing their best to build a 2-0 half-time lead, the Blues found themselves hanging on for maximum points at Moss Rose.

Initially fortune favoured Bobby Williamson’s men, as the hosts squandered chance after chance while City made their few opportunities count.

John Murphy opened the scoring on 12 minutes after he met a short cross from Richie Partridge with his head.

City then doubled their lead when Laurence Wilson curled a free-kick from 25 yards out around the wall and into the top corner of Tommy Lee’s goal four minutes before the break.

Despite being behind the hosts had had the better of the play and in the second half they continued where they had left off, creating plenty of chances.

But it was a set-piece which left the Blues clinging to the three points when Terry Dunfield stepped up to fire a 53rd-minute free-kick past Danby in a carbon copy of Wilson’s earlier effort.

Macclesfield: Lee, I Reid (Morley 89), Dimech, McNulty, McIntyre, L Reid (Wiles 72), Dunfield, Murray, Thomas, Green, Gritton (Evans 84).

Subs: Brain, Hadfield.

Chester: Danby, Marples, Linwood, Butler, Wilson, Partridge (Lowndes 62), Carroll (Sandwith 54), Grant, Hughes, Ellison, Murphy.

Subs: Palethorpe, Yeo, Rutherford.

Attendance: 2,647

Referee: Lee Mason (Lancashire)