We played at Liberty Park earlier in the season on 10th September, and drew 1-1

Nuneaton 1 Darlington 1

Darlington dropped two points at Liberty Park, but still moved up to second place in the Vanarama National League North.

The point still means that Quakers are unbeaten away this season in five league games, but they had to work hard in the second half to keep their unbeaten record.

They took the game to Nuneaton in the opening stages. Liam Hardy and Stephen Thompson were both denied by Nuneaton keeper Kristian Dibble, but he was given no chance for the opening goal on 24 minutes.

Thompson and Jordan Watson combined well on the left from where Watson crossed into the middle for Mark Beck to head across the keeper for his fourth goal of the season.

[caption id="attachment_29421" align="alignnone" width="960"] Mark Beck scores at Nuneaton[/caption]

Quakers then had to regroup after midfielder and skipper Phil Turnbull went off injured, and after half time, keeper Peter Jameson pulled off a good block from Jordan Keane and an excellent one-handed save from David Morgan who also fired just wide.

Joe Ironside headed wide from six yards when he should have scored, but Nuneaton equalised on 73 minutes when Morgan found Greg Tempest on the left, and he beat Jameson with a left foot shot.

Quakers nearly won it when Beck set up sub Gary Brown, who forced Dibble into a flying save from his right foot shot.

Jameson, Marrs, Galbraith, Turnbull (sub Nowakowski 40 mins) , Watson, Hunter, Thompson (sub Gillies 77), Portas, Beck, Hardy, Mitchell (sub Brown 71)

Subs: Cartman, Bell,

Nuneaton

Dibble, Clifton, O’Hanlon, Morgan, Langmead, Keane, Tempest, Daniels, Ironside (MacDonald 85), Whitehouse (sub Demkiv 81), Williams

Booking: Morgan

Subs: Penny, Cartwright,Warburton

Attendance 655