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GRAHAM Ward is facing a spell on the sidelines after damaging medial knee ligaments against Kidderminster Harriers.

The Worcester City midfielder hobbled off half-way through the first period of extra-time in the Worcestershire FA Senior Cup semi-final victory and was replaced by youngster Craig Brown.

Ward will have a scan on his left knee next Tuesday but is expected to be out for several weeks. The injury took the gloss off the 3-2 success, in which manager Richard Dryden thought some of City's players played close to their best.

Goals from Matt Dinsmore, Jamie Price and Mark Danks' 113th-minute winner booked City a place in the final against Redditch.

"It's nice to reach a final," Dryden said. "We played really well. We played some good football against a very, very good side and it was pleasing to see.

"Kidderminster are a good bunch of players. I thought they played well but I thought we played to probably 90 per cent of our potential."

Danks, who came on as an 84th-minute substitute for David Burtoft, continued his comeback from cruciate ligament damage with his first goal since December 15.

Harriers' assistant boss Neil Howarth and physio Ian Fos-ter were both on the scoresheet for a team that also included manager Mark Yates.

Yates said: "We weren't being disrespectful to Worces-ter, we've got four games in seven days coming up. I've got a small squad and we didn't want to pick up any injuries to key players.

"The players who haven't been involved in the first team of late all featured, plus one or two others, and it was a game that was there for the taking but we were sloppy and didn't deserve to win."

He added: "Our defending was poor all night, we haven't moved the ball quickly enough and we didn't create en-ough chances."

8:15am Wednesday 19th March 2008

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