Guiseley 0 AFC Telford United 1

Guiseley were unable to become the first team to beat Telford in the UniBond Premier Division this season - but if they had packed their shooting boots and got the rub of the green they surely would have been.

They outmanoeuvred their visitors and outproduced them, as chances were created with regularity, but what they failed to do was beat the Telford goalkeeper.

The home side threatened first when Sam Denton's header from a Richard Dunning free-kick was cleared in only the third minute. A later shot from Dunning was blocked by a desperate lunge.

Telford then hit back with a goal, just after the half hour, and it looked like a set-piece move worked on in training. A corner was played to the near post and Lee Moore timed his run to meet it and net a deft glancing header over home keeper Steve Dickinson.

Moments later Guiseley were thwarted again as Dunning delivered, this time from a corner, and Denton saw his header saved.

Gavin Knight was next to break through and, faced with only the keeper to beat, his shot lacked power but was only parried. Scott Jackson picked up the loose ball but his shot was charged down by a defender.

Early in the second half, a Knight shot had the Telford keeper well beaten but it came back off the post.

Jackson and Knight soon went close again and just, after the hour mark, Craig Hall ended a superb solo run with a great cut back that Dunning just couldn't reach in front of an open net.

The pressure from the hosts continued and Dunning and Denton went close again as, even into the last few minutes, Guiseley searched for an equaliser.

A 20-yard volley from Jackson just cleared the angle of post and bar and Knight was denied by another diving save from the Telford keeper, who pushed a last-minute header around the post.

Guiseley spokesman Stuart Allen said: "It was a close game that we should have drawn at least. We certainly did enough to win it but that's the way it goes in this game; it doesn't follow any set guidelines."