Darlington 0 Macclesfield 0

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Macc put the pressure on the Quaker defence from the off and forced an early corner, but the home defence got the ball away.

Quakers had an opening when Jack Maskell found himself in the clear off a poor backpass, but the visitors got back and covered.

Macc were awarded a penalty on 6 minutes when Luke Matheson went down in the box, but Rory Watson threw himself to his right and superbly pushed away Luke Duffy’s penalty.

But Quakers responded when Ellis Stanton broke away and slipped the ball to Tom Tweedy, whose left foot shot went just wide of the left hand post.

Macc thought they should have had a second penalty when James Gale went own when he was challenged by Scott Barrow, but the referee waved their appeals away.

Quakers nearly scored on 15 minutes when McGowan won the all on the edge of the area and set up Cedric Main, whose lob beat Ravenhill but came back off the bar.

Main had another chance when he got away from the defence, but a defender just managed to get back and put the ball out for a corner.

McGowan curled the corner in, Ravenhill missed it, but a defender got the ball off the line.

Then Quakers had a chance on 27 minutes when Stanton again found Tweedy on the left, and he pulled the ball back for Howells to have a low shot saved by the keeper.

Quakers were forced into a change on 29 minutes when Stanton went off injured, and was replaced by Kallum Griffiths.

Macc nearly scored on 33 minutes when Matheson crossed low from the right for Kay to put the ball wide from a few yards

Watson, Forbes, Lees, Barrow, Howells, Platt, Tweedy, Stanton (sub Griffiths 29), McGowan, Maskell, Main

Subs: Mason, Hedley, Myers-Smith, Cornish, Barton, Rutledge