A heavy and prolonged downpour as the game began made an already heavy pitch even worse but both sides bravely attempted to play football on the saturated surface. The early openings fell to City as a low shot by Gosling tested keeper Wietecha after 13 minutes and Milsom glanced a header wide four minutes later. However, this bright start again counted for nothing as City fell behind in the 23 minute. The home side earned a corner after Johnston had blocked McRoberts effort. The ball was swung in toward Morris and his faint touch was helped over the line by Thorne. Despite some half-hearted appeals that the ball had not crossed the line the referee awarded a goal. In contrast to recent games City didn't let their heads drop and began to gain the upper hand, dominating possession and slowly applying pressure to the Vics uncertain looking defence. When a deserved equaliser arrived it began with this sort of pressure. Wietecha was forced into a hurried clearance that only found Gosling. He advanced toward goal before laying the ball off to Milsom. The big striker took one touch before unleashing a stunning shot that curled beyond the floundering keeper and into the top corner of the goal.

The interval saw Bradley Thomas replace Lee Collier and he produced one of his best performances in a City shirt, regularly stretching the Folkestone defence with his strong and direct running. At the other end lady luck almost saw City fall behind again when a fortunate rebound fell to Dryden in the area. He laid the ball off to Dent but to the relief of City's vocal supporters his shot was blocked on the goalline by Kemp. Gosling had a good penalty appeal turned down after he was bundled over on 62 minutes and then with 20 minutes remaining he was replaced by Foster and suddenly City looked capable of turning their considerable possession into a vital second goal. Drysdale and Harvey both fired shots into the side netting before a misplaced back pass saw Foster force an excellent save from Wietecha after 76 minutes. Milsom was also denied by the keeper after a neat pass by Williams had given him a shooting chance. The resultant corner ended with the referee awarding City an indirect free-kick just seven yards out after Wietecha had picked up a clear back pass. With the whole of the Folkestone side on the goalline Drysdale's first effort was blocked and after Harvey's follow up shot also failed to breach the wall the danger was cleared. Dent and Daniels almost made City pay for these misses but in injury-time City nearly grabbed a last-gasp winner. Foster ran onto a long through ball and nicked it past the out rushing Wietecha only for the keeper to clearly bring him down right on the edge of the box. However, the referee incredibly saw nothing wrong with the challenge and waved play on. When he brought the proceedings to an end moments later there was a brief flare-up between the players that ended with Drysdale receiving a long lecture but (it appeared) no caution or worse, and City were left to reflect on a performace that they will need to repeat again and again if they are to retain the Premier Division place.