FROME Town manager Adrian Foster was delighted that his players returned home from Cambridge City with a point.

Despite being unhappy with having to make the long journey east, Foster was left delighted with his players’ effort at Bridge Road.

A resurgent Frome took the lead twice against the Lilywhites with Ollie Taylor and Matt Smith both on target.

And while Darren Chitty impressed when playing through the pain barrier, the keeper could do little to prevent the deflected goals of Danny Kelly and Buster Harradine.

“To get a point was pleasing,” Foster said. “To go to Cambridge on a Saturday is hard enough, so to go there in midweek was incredibly tough.

“A lot of the lads had to finish work at midday and we didn’t get home until three in the morning.

“But the lads gave me everything. They all put a shift in.

“Brandon Munday had to come off because he was ill, Aaron Rodriguez came on but had to go off with a suspected broken toe.

“Then the two centre-halves picked up knocks and we were struggling and so was Darren.”

Foster will be hoping that most of those injury concerns sustained at Cambridge will be fit enough to make the journey to Dorchester Town.

“They beat us earlier in the season so we are looking to even the score,” Foster said.

“We have been on a good run so we are looking to get things back on track.”

Frome headed to Cambridge on the back of a 1-0 loss to Cirencester Town, a defeat that ended a run of three successive wins.

The Berkley Road side took the lead when Rhys Baggridge played a great ball over the top to Taylor who turned inside Lee Chaffey and drilled a low shot under Zac Barrett from just inside the penalty area.

Inspired by the goal, Frome went looking for their second and Lewis Haldane and Smith both had shooting chances but failed to find the target, and then against the run of play, the hosts equalised as Kelly’s shot from 20 yards took a deflection off of a defender leaving Chitty helpless.

This match was always threatening more goals, and Frome duly obliged in the 50th minute as Smith drove forward and set Haldane free and his chipped cross to the far post where Taylor rose to head back across goal for Smith to head home and make it 2-1 to Frome.

But the lead only lasted for a couple of minutes and Harradine equalised with a shot from 20 yards as Frome failed to clear their lines, and as the match turned into an even faster, end to end affair, by man-of-the-match Chitty made another superb save in the 59th to deny Harradine his second of the night.

“To be fair Cambridge could have won the match,” Foster added. “They had the better chances, but Darren was superb.”