Hereford 0 Darlington 0

Quakers had a chance in the second minute. Cedric Main found space in the box on the right to cross to the far post, where Tom Tweedy headed just wide.

Then Kallum Griffiths tried his luck from 30 yards, but the keeper, Theo Richardson, saved.

They kept the pressure going, and Tom Tweedy whipped a in a low cross from the left that Jack Maskell just failed to reach at the far post.

In Hereford’s first meaningful attack on 11 minutes, Aaron Skinner had a low shot saved down to his left by Rory Watson.

And Darlington had Watson to thank for a timely block on 15 minutes when Harry Tustin looked as if he was going to latch on to a through ball, but the keeper timed his block perfectly and smothered the ball on the edge of the area.

Elliot Forbes then ran forward on 18 minutes and fired a right foot shot just wide of the left hand post.

Hereford nearly scored from their first corner on 22 minutes, when Gus Mafuta prodded the ball towards goal from six yards out, but Ellis Stanton cleared off the line.

Then Tustin had another chance on the left, but Watson saved with his legs.

But Quakers replied on 30 minutes when a chip forward by Stanton was partly cleared as far as Griffiths, whose first time volley was well saved by Richardson.

The keeper pulled off an even better save two minutes later when Griffiths, who was 40 yards out, spotted the keeper off his line and tried to lob him, but the keeper backpedalled quickly and touched the ball over the bar.

And from Tom Allan’s inswinging corner that followed, Maskell headed just wide of the post.

Hereford had an escape when Barrow played the ball in to the Hereford box and Matt Preston tried to play the ball back to his keeper, but Richardson didn’t gather it and had to scramble back and push the ball around the post, with Quakers protesting that he shouldn’t have handled it

Half time 0-0

Watson, Forbes, Lees, Barrow, Griffiths, PLatt, Tweedy, Allan, Stanton, Maskell, Main

Subs: Hedley, Cornish, Mason, Howells, Myers-Smith, Rutledge, Lowes