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King’s Lynn Town have closed the gap at the top of the National League North table after a hard-fought point at the Deva Stadium.

A Jonny Margetts equaliser earned the Linnets a share of the spoils on a day when leaders Curzon Ashton suffered a surprise 4-1 defeat at Leamington.

It leaves Lynn just a point behind, although Curzon have two games in hand. Kidderminster are a point further behind, also with two games in hand, while fourth-placed Scunthorpe dropped points in a home draw with Hereford.

Linnets boss Adam Lakeland was delighted to come away with a point from Chester, which extended his team’s unbeaten run to six games.

“It wasn’t a great spectacle was it, but I think it’s a fantastic point for us that, particularly coming here, they’re top of the home form table, it’s a difficult place to come,” he told official club channels.

“And it's an even more difficult place to come when you go behind because the crowd get right behind the team and for us to come back and get a point, it's a great point.

“And a really good one when you consider we played Tuesday at Brackley, got three points in that game, so we’d have taken four points from those two really difficult games against two very good teams.

“I think the wind probably didn’t help either, the first half we had a lot of control with the ball, didn’t really ask enough questions of the keeper at all, in fairness.

“I think you can say the same for them in the second half - they had more control, more territory – didn’t ask any questions of Pat (Boyes).

“So I think the draw is a fair result and it’s a better point for us than it probably is for them.”

Margetts’s goal took his tally to eight for the season.

“It's a quiet game for Jonny,” said Lakeland. “He’s probably frustrated and disappointed with how the last few games have gone for him, but one thing you always know with Jonny Margetts - he will get on the end of things and score goals even if he has a little run when he doesn’t score. That why we left him in the team today and he got his goal it has proved to be an important one for us.”

Chester: Harrison, Hunter (Hancox 67), Burke, Weeks, Peers, Willoughby (Mottley-Henry 53), Caton, Woodthorpe, Pollock, Bainbridge, Roberts. Subs not used: Mason, Glendon, Murray. Goal: Caton 17.

King’s Lynn Town: Boyes, Ronan, Sass (Crowe 46), McFadden, Taylor, Hmami, Margetts (Hughes 73), McCammon, Wilson, Barnes (Omotayo 81), Johnson (Crane 61). Subs not used: Coulson. Goal: Margetts 40.

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