In the National League game on 16 September 2026, Kidderminster Harriers beat Gateshead 1:0. Match numbers: shots on target 1:6, corners 1:2.
Match report
Kidderminster Harriers secured a narrow 1:0 victory over Gateshead in the National League's eighth round of fixtures. The match took place at Agborough on the evening of September 16th. It was a result that kept the hosts in fourth place while the visitors remained rooted at the bottom of the table.
The decisive moment came in the twenty-seventh minute when C. Dolan found the net. Before that, K. Ferguson had already received a yellow card in the fourth minute, a sign of the physical contest from the outset. Gateshead pushed forward with more intent but could not break through. To be fair, their shape was decent but execution lacked precision.
And here's the thing — we had tipped a home win at sixty-two percent confidence before kick-off. The prediction held. Kidderminster controlled the tempo without dominating possession, which sat evenly at fifty percent for both sides. Gateshead registered six shots on target compared to just one, yet only Dolan's effort counted.
The statistics tell a story of misplaced dominance. Gateshead recorded 142 attacks against 112, but the difference was in the final third. Three yellow cards for the visitors versus four for the hosts showed the friction levels were comparable. Red cards remained at zero for both teams throughout.
Substitutions began in the fifty-third minute when R. Faakye and C. Stewart came on for Kidderminster. L. Walker followed in the fifty-fourth, and later K. Ferguson made his own return in the seventy-seventh. Gateshead brought on J. Hiwula in the eighty-first and F. Issaka in the eighty-fifth.
By then, the game had settled into a defensive rhythm. The hosts closed out proceedings with L. Giles arriving in the ninety-second minute of stoppage time. Kidderminster moved to seventeen points from eight games, while Gateshead stayed on four points with just one victory all season.
HT🟨4' K. Ferguson — Yellow card⚽27' C. Dolan — Goal🟨39' A. Boatswain — Yellow card🟨45+2' M. Brogan — Yellow card🟨48' B. Crompton — Yellow card⇄53' R. Faakye — Substitution⇄53' C. Stewart — Substitution⇄54' L. Walker — Substitution🟨55' Z. Brown — Yellow card🟨68' R. Devine — Yellow card⇄77' K. Ferguson — Substitution🟨80' C. Harries — Yellow card⇄81' J. Hiwula — Substitution⇄85' F. Issaka — Substitution🟨89' J. Home — Yellow card⇄90+2' L. Giles — Substitution
