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FA Cup second round - FT - Harrogate Town 1-0 Gainsborough Trinity A Dean Cornelius header sends the League Two side into the third round for only the second time in their history Get Involved: #bbcfootball, via Whats App on 03301231826 or text 81111 (UK only, standard message rates apply) Ben Ashton and Deepak Mahay Harrogate 0-0 Gainsborough This looks like a painful one for Harrogate's Stephen Dooley as he's down at the side of the pitch after appearing to collide with a stretcher. There's a break in play while the medical staff attend to Dooley. For a brief moment, there was a coming together between the players after the ball went out of play and Toby Sims has now gone into the book for Town. Trinity skipper Dylan Cogill is also shown a yellow. Harrogate 0-0 Gainsborough Sisa Tuntulwana drives inside for Gainsborough and hits a left-footed effort from the edge of the box. It goes wide of the post and out for a first corner of the game for Trinity. The ball comes in and is headed back across the box before Harrogate can scramble it away. Nervy moments for the League Two hosts! Harrogate 0-0 Gainsborough Paul Robinson Former England goalkeeper on BBC Two Simon Weaver will want more from his Harrogate team in the second half. Gainsborough will want to stay in it. They've done excellently well this long. They've defended resolutely and they've given Harrogate a problem and now it's about staying in it for as long as they can. Harrogate 0-0 Gainsborough Not a bad start to the half for Gainsborough as they work it well down the left but Ashley Jackson's cross goes high over everyone in the box. Harrogate 0-0 Gainsborough Harrogate had 75% possession in the first half. Can they make their dominance count in this second period? Harrogate 0-0 Gainsborough We're off and running in the second-half. A reminder that this will be going to extra-time and penalties if it can't be decided in the next 45 minutes with no replays at this stage of the FA Cup anymore. Will Harrogate be able live up to their favourites status tonight or are Gainsborough plotting a cupset? We're about to find out. .. HT: Harrogate 0-0 Gainsborough Fara Williams Former England midfielder on BBC Two Harrogate have been really impressive, certainly in the wide areas. As the manager mentioned, they've had wave after wave of attacks but they haven't been clinical in front of goal. It's been a bit rush in front of goal and I think that is the disappointing thing about the half for them. HT: Harrogate 0-0 Gainsborough Harrogate manager Simon Weaver talking to BBC Two at half-time: "I'm fairly happy, obviously it'd be good to be a goal to the good at this moment but I feel it has been one-way traffic. "They've had fleeting moments but largely it's about improving the final pass and executing the finish. "The message will be let's see that cutting edge that I know we are capable of in recent weeks and keep the tempo high that it's unsustainable for them. " HT: Harrogate 0-0 Gainsborough Paul Robinson Former England goalkeeper on BBC Two I don't think either manager will be too disappointed going in at half-time. Gainsborough won't have come here expecting to dominate play and getting the lion's share of opportunities. Harrogate as we expected have dominated possession, they've had the opportunities but they haven't been able to break the deadlock. HT: Harrogate 0-0 Gainsborough Gainsborough Trinity might be 18th in the Northern Premier League in the seventh tier, but they are unbeaten in their last nine games (W8 D1). The only draw in that run was against Boston United in the FA Cup third qualifying round where it ended 2-2 before they went through via a replay. HT: Harrogate 0-0 Gainsborough Paul Robinson Former England goalkeeper on BBC Two Gainsborough are really working hard all across the pitch. You can hear the communication from up here on the gantry, encouraging one another. They're trying to set the press but they're just not able to get any kind of possession. Harrogate 0-0 Gainsborough All square at the break. So far, so good for Gainsborough Trinity. 73 places separating the two sides on the football pyramid but nothing between them on the pitch. Harrogate Town have certainly looked the more threatening but you'd imagine the visitors would've taken 0-0 at half-time. Big 45 coming up. Harrogate 0-0 Gainsborough Stephen Duke-Mc Kenna crosses for Harrogate and a no nonsense clearance from Jordan Helliwell for the visitors. Can Gainsborough make it to half-time? Harrogate 0-0 Gainsborough Almost a howler for Gainsborough skipper Dylan Cogill as he slices a clearance towards his own goal and it just goes wide. Harrogate can't make anything of the corner but the pressure has just cranked up again in the last five minutes or so of this half. Harrogate 0-0 Gainsborough Paul Robinson Former England goalkeeper on BBC Two That was arguably Josh March's best chance of the game and he knows it. He puts it high over the crossbar. He gets underneath it but it goes over. Harrogate 0-0 Gainsborough That's 10 shots so far in the game for Harrogate. Just the two on target - therein lies the problem so far for the hosts. Harrogate 0-0 Gainsborough Josh March is furious with himself as he fires over from 12 yards for Harrogate. A cross comes all the way out to James Daly on the left-hand side and he sets it back across nicely for March who hits it first time on the volley but it flies over the top. Probably the best chance of the game and it's gone begging. Harrogate 0-0 Gainsborough Jack Emmett Former Harrogate Town midfielder on BBC Radio York There were a few celebrations in the crowd but it definitely hit the side nettling. Harrogate have played well so far, they've limited Gainsborough, they moved the ball well and they haven't looked nervous and unsure of themselves. On a slick pitch it's not easy to move the ball quickly but they've done it well and I think they've had enough chances to go one up so far. Harrogate 0-0 Gainsborough Another chance for Harrogate! The ball is nodded back to Josh March who hits it on the volley first time but it just grazes narrowly wide of the post. Still goalless, though, and that's all that matters for Gainsborough. Harrogate 0-0 Gainsborough Ooh, this is probably the closest Harrogate have come. A good strike from just outside the box by Stephen Duke-Mc Kenna but Dylan Wharton does brilliantly to shuffle across and parry it away for Gainsborough. Manager: Simon Weaver Formation: 4 - 4 - 2 Manager: Russ Wilcox Formation: 4 - 4 - 2 Manager: Simon Weaver Formation: 4 - 4 - 2 Manager: Russ Wilcox Formation: 4 - 4 - 2 FA Cup All competitions All competitions All competitions As a Football League side, Harrogate Town have won all three of their FA Cup ties against non-league opponents by an aggregate score of 11-3. This is their first ever meeting with Gainsborough Trinity in the competition proper. Gainsborough Trinity have been eliminated from their last 15 FA Cup ties against Football League opponents, since beating Gateshead AFC in November 1938. Harrogate Town are looking to reach the FA Cup third round for just the second time, previously doing so in 2021-22. In the current format of the competition (since 1925-26), Gainsborough Trinity have lost all 10 of their FA Cup second round ties. This is their first appearance at this stage since 1952-53 (1-2 vs Newport County). © 2024 BBC. 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