Half-time was reached with neither goalkeeper having been seriously tested and with Yeovil having enjoyed the better of the game.

Alty started the second half brightly with James Jones forcing a good save early on after the break.

Yeovil got on top as the second half progressed, however, and they went close in the 76th minute when right-back Smith got forward and struck the bar.

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Elliot Osborne returned to start in place of Eddy Jones. Injury meant that Baines and Wilson remained sidelined as well as long-term absentees Crankshaw and Marriott.

For Yeovil, Williams, Sims and Sonny Blu Lo-Everton came in to replace Bernard, McGavin and Nouble. The Glovers named only six substitutes. Former Alty keeper Matt Gould was on the Glovers' bench after his summer move to Somerset.

LINE-UPS:

TEOVIL TOWN (Green and white) : 1. Ollie Wright, 23. Michael Smith, 4. Morgan Williams, 6. Jake Wannell, 3. Alex Whittle, 24. Charlie Cooper, 8. Matt Worthington (c), 19. Josh Sims, 7. Sam Pearson, 16. Sonny Blu Lo-Everton, 9. Aaron Jarvis. Subs: 11. Jordan Young, 5. Finn Cousin-Dawson, 10. Frank Nouble, 14. Brett McGavin, 22. Matt Gould, 33. Dom Bernard.

ALTRINCHAM (Red and white striped shirts, black shorts, white socks): 1. Ethan ROSS, 2. Lewis BANKS, 6. James JONES (c), 5. Jake COOPER, 23. Tylor GOLDEN, 6. Elliot OSBORNE, 15. Liam HUMBLES, 22. Tom CRAWFORD, 11. Justin AMALUZOR, 10. Alex NEWBY, 9. Regan LINNEY. Subs: 3. Eddy JONES, 14. Matty KOSYLO, 20. Kahrel REDDIN, 24. Joe NUTTALL, 28. Remi THOMPSON, 29. Jake BICKERSTAFF, 30. Harvey RANDLE (gk)

This was Altrincham's second long away trip of the week, following their added-time defeat at Barnet in midweek. At least this season the match was not a Tuesday night fixture as it had been last season when a James Jones goal secured a 1-1 draw.

Both teams came into the match with indifferent form, each having lost three of their five preceding games, though that record had left Yeovil eight and Altrincham down in sixteenth.

On a sunny Somerset afternoon, Yeovil had the better of the opening stages, though Lo-Everton's well hit shot, betaen out by Ross, was all they had to show for it (6 mins).

However, Amaluzor was soon looking lively for Altrincham and he won a freekick, taken by Osborne, from which Linney curled a shot over the bar from a Newby pass (8 mins).

Indeed, Alty had the better of the next ten minutes, winning two corners in the process. The first arrived from a freekick, after a foul on Cooper and Newby earned the second off Smith. Both corners were taken short and neither came to anything (14 mins).

Likewise there was no end product from Newby's freekick from a promising position after Yeovil's Cooper had fouled Amaluzor (21 mins). Cooper was booked.

With the game into its second quarter, Linney tried an audacious effort from just inside the Yeovil half which caused the home keeper some concern as he stumbled before retreating to catch the ball (27 mins).

But by the half-hour mark, the hosts were in the ascendancy and they maintained that till the interval. in fact, they won five corners in the remaining time before the break, the first arriving after 33 minutes but this was hit too high by Charlie Cooper for its intended target, Jarvis.

To his disapproval, Banks was deemed to have conceded the second corner before a Worthington shot won the next corner as the ball deflected off Osborne (42 mins).

One added minute was announced but it extended to two as the Glovers won two more flag-kicks, with Altrincham relieved to get to the interval unscathed.

After finishing the first half on the back foot, Alty set the pace in the early part of the second period.

An early shot by Newby won his side a corner (46 mins), following which a Jones flick from Newby's feed forced a decent save from Wright (47 mins). Next a Linney effort had to be cleared by Worthington (48 mins).

Following this, Alty enjoyed a spell of calm passing before Linney took advantage of Pearson losing the ball by forcing a save on the counter-attack but after a scramble the ball found the net only to be ruled out for a foul on the keeper (55 mins). Yeovil responded when Jarvis's cross allowed Smith to win a corner on the hour mark.

But the visitors soon won a corner of their own from a fine shot by Linney which Wright saved but could not hold (62 mins).

The first of seven substitution breaks in the final quarter of the game arrived when former West Ham man Nouble replaced Smith (66 mins).

Coincidentally, or otherwise, Yeovil now began to get on top and maintained their territrial superioty for most pf the remainder of the afternoon.

After an unproductive Yeovil corner, won by Worthington (68 mins), Alty did enjoy a brief phase of passing the ball around largely in their own half, only to lose possesion from a blocked shot by Crawford. Jarvis then led a quick counter-attack from which Smith struck the crossbar (76 mins).

Three more interruptions for substitutions now broke up the flow of the game as McGavin replaced Lo-Everton (77 mins), Joe Nuttall came on for Humbles (77 mins) and Young for Pearson (79 mins).

Another Yeovil counter-attack ended as Charlie Cooper fired over the bar when a pass would have been a better bet (81 mins). Next a McGavin shot bounced in front of Ross, who gathered its safely, before Smith became the third home player to be booked after a foul on Linney (83 mins).

The second Alty change brought Kosylo on to replace Newby (86 mins) before two more breaks for substitutions saw Reddin replace Linney (88 mins) and Yeovil's Bernard came on for Smith (89 mins).

In the first of five added minutes Yeovil gained a corner, which was followed by a very wide volley from Wilkinson (90+2 mins). Yeovil finished the game on the front foot but, for the third time running, an away trip to Somerset had produced a draw for Altrincham, leaving them sixteenth after a run of just one win in six fixtures.