HARRIERS conceded two second half goals to fall to defeat at FC Halifax Town on an afternoon where very little went their way.

Harriers made two changes to their starting line-up for what was always a tricky-looking test at the MBi Shay Stadium; Ryan Croasdale drafted back into the eleven after missing the defeat at Blackpool through suspension, while Ashley Carter switched to left-back in place of the injured Zaine Francis-Angol.

Much of the first half will most likely fade from the memory reasonably swiftly - the referee's notebook proved to be a far busier place than the score sheet - some four players had their names taken with barely 25 minutes gone - three of them Harriers players.

There was a half chance each as the half edged on, Sinnott slicing over the bar at one end before, on the beak, Ngwatala freed Carter whose curling cross-shot needed turning around the post by home custodian Steven Drench.

Denton nodded a header wide of the target for the hosts past the half-hour, but in truth it wasn't an attempt likely to trouble Hornby - unlikely the effort from Sinnott just after the restart that at least required a good, low save.

Halifax would start to dominate and they soon took the lead; a fine strike from Matty Kosylo finding the bottom corner, undoing some good work as Hornby had only seconds prior kept out a penalty kick following a foul in the area.

Those first-half yellow cards would then haunt Harriers as Tyrone Williams was sent off for a second offence, a foul on the touchline on Town's Wilde.

What Halifax had they then tried to hold, smothering everything Harriers had to offer on the counter, including half chances for substitutes Liam Truslove and Andre Brown.

The hosts might have added to their own score had Kosylo and full-back Roberts not been so wasteful, but their own substitute in Peniket was there to show them how it was done.

On as a late change, the former Harrier took the ball as his one-time club looked to push forward for a goal, steering it well into visiting territory before sweeping it beyond Hornby to finally seal the game and, for the first time this season, condemn John Eustace's men to back-to-back defeats.

HARRIERS: Hornby, Williams, Lowe, Carter, Tunnicliffe, Croasdale, Ngwatala, McQuilkin (Austin 82), Dieseruvwe (Brown 62), Waite (Truslove 72), Gnahoua.

Subs not used: Palmer Attendance: 1,704 Referee: Steven Copeland