MATCHDAY: Colchester United 2 Bury 0 (From Bury Times)

4:54pm

F/T: Colchester United 2 Bury 0

4:50pm

91 – David Worrall booked
92 – Josh Thompson on for Craig Eastmond

4:49pm

90 – Craig Jones booked for strong challenge

4:47pm

88 – Sub – Mark Carrington on for Steven Schumacher

4:46pm

86 – Colchester sub - Gavin Massey on for Ian Henderson
Massey booked for kicking the ball away

4:37pm

Bury have gone to three at the back as they search for an unlikely way back into the match...

4:35pm

76 – Colchester sub - Clinton Morrison on for Jabo Ibehre

4:33pm

74 – Subs - Craig Jones and Peter Sweeney on for Mark Hughes and Tom Soares

4:31pm

69 – A defensive mix-up in the Colchester box following a Steven Schumacher corner almost gifts Bury a way back into the game, but the ball loops up off a Us defender and rebounds off the bar and out to safety.

4:20pm

60 – GOAL – COLCHESTER 2 Bury 0 – Freddie Sears fires home a low Ian Henderson cross from 15 yards after a sweeping break down the right.

4:19pm

56 – GOAL – Colchester 1 Bury 0 – Anthony Wordsworth nods Jabo Ibehre’s deep cross back across goal and into the Bury net. The ball was worked to Ibehre in the right channel after a mistake from Mark Hughes.

4:16pm

GOAL - 56 - COLCHESTER 1 Bury 0 - Wordsworth

4:04pm

K/O: Colchester get the second half underway with both sides unchanged...

3:48pm

H/T: Colchester United 0 Bury 0

3:47pm

3:47pm

45 – Bury somehow manage to clear their lines after Matthew Rose’s low cross from the left flashes across the six yard line.

A quick free kick then sees Worrall set free on the right, but Hopper is unable to turn his low ball in at the near post.

3:41pm

40 – David Worrall manages to play a ball from the floor into Zac Thompson’s path, but the Bury midfielder’s shot is easy for Sullivan.

3:39pm

38 – First serious Bury shot of the match is pushed around the post by Colchester keeper John Sullivan. Dominic Poleon had the effort, cutting in from the left before driving low to Sullivan’s near post from 25 yards.

3:34pm

34 – Carson comfortably handles a Sears shot.

3:33pm

32 – Great sliding challenge from Matt Doherty to deny Freddie Sears.

3:30pm

29 – Trevor Carson palms a Henderson volley behind for a corner, then gets down well to smother Craig Eastmond’s shot from the resulting corner.

3:15pm

Two good chances early doors for Colchester, with widemen Freddie Sears and Ian Henderson going close.
Kevin Blackwell looks to have tried to match up Colchester’s 4-5-1 formation, playing new boy Tom Soares alongside Steven Schumacher and Zac Thompson in a midfield three.
It’s the home side though that are getting on the ball in the middle of the park and getting in behind Bury with pacey runs from deep.

3:00pm

K/O: Bury get the match under way...

2:50pm

Full line-ups

COLCHESTER UNITED: Sullivan; Wilson, Okuonghae, Eastman, Rose; Henderson, Bean, Wordsworth, Eastmond, Sears; Ibehre.

Subs: Cousins, Duguid, Morrison, Bond, Massey, White, J Thompson.

BURY: Carson; Doherty, Ebanks-Landell, Hughes, Skarz; Worrall, Schumacher, Soares, Z Thompson, Poleon; Hopper.

Subs: Sweeeney, C Jones, Carrington, Elford-Alliyu, Sodje, A Jones, Belford.