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Walsall Wood 0-0 Anstey Nomads: Wood progress in Vase with shoot-out win

Wren pulled off a superb save from Harry Bestwick in a sudden-death penalty shootout with Michael Nelson converting the winner to see Wood through 5-4 after a dour 0-0 draw.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
25 April 2021

By Wilf Alexander

WALSALL WOOD 0
ANSTEY NOMADS 0
JAMES Wren had the last laugh in a tale of two keepers that saw Walsall Wood equal a club record in reaching the last eight.
Wren pulled off a superb save from Harry Bestwick in a sudden-death penalty shootout with Michael Nelson converting the winner to see Wood through 5-4 after a dour 0-0 draw.
Both teams converted their first three kicks until Tendai Chitiza slammed over Anstey’s fourth.
That gave the hosts a golden opportunity but Sam Fitzgerald, the hero of the last round, was denied from 12 yards by former Leicester City keeper Conra...

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