We created enough chances to have won the game comfortably but apart from one Kyle Lafferty goal twenty minutes from time that brought us back into the game we were unable to find the net.
Not as though it was all one way traffic. Bury, playing down the hill in the first half, twice forced goalkeeper Lee Grant into top saves. The second of the saves was a stunner, he looked to have no chance but somehow got his finger tips to a shot going into the top corner and tipped it over.
Kyle had a chance, Chris McCann should have done better than find the keeper when he broke clear in the box, and Cayne Hanley missed the best of them all in the first half but failed to find the target.
Just a few minutes before the half time whistle we had the most amazing incident. A Bury forward run clear but he was yards and yards offside. He knew it and immediately pulled up as Grant raced from his goal. That prompted Grant to stop and both players just stood there ignoring the ball. However, the assistant had incredibly not flagged and it was left for the referee to frantically wave play on, and we got the ball clear.
There was no such luck in stoppage time at the end of the half, when Tom Blackler gave the ball away and they scored with a sweetly struck shot from the edge of the box.
It was difficult to believe that we were a goal down at half time but it quickly became two as we failed to recover from another top save from Grant. He blocked the ball but Bury picked up the loose ball and got a shot against the bar before it dropped for them to hit home from close range.
They hit the post shortly afterwards but that was about it from them as we dominated the rest of the game. Kyle missed the easiest chance of the night when he was put through down the right hand side, his shot missing the target, but a few minutes later he got on the end of a knock down from substitute Gifton Noel-Williams and places his shot into the bottom corner.
We pressurised the home defence but their keeper was also in top form and we just couldn’t find another way through and Bury were able to take all three points. The game did though provide such as Branchy and Danny K with ninety minutes football whilst Gifton got on at half time.
The teams were,
Bury: Craig Dootson, Andrew Parrish, Keith Wedge, Stuart Barlow, John Fitzgerald, Russell Hitchen, David Flitcroft, Damien Quigley, Jake Speight, Matthew Tipton, Adam Williams. Subs: Jordan Stepien, Aaron Grundy, Kane Bentley, Dale Stephens, Lee Peatfield.