Full-time: Accrington Stanley 1 Brentford 0

9:43pm Tuesday 26th February 2008

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Stanley won their first home league game of 2008 after a superb display against Brentford tonight.

It was a night of firsts as Leam Richardson opened his Stanley account with the only goal of the game.

Andy Mangan and Paul Mullin both went close with shots in the first half that were saved well by keeper Ben Hamer.

But Hamer could do nothing with Richardson's cross on 31 minutes, which moved in the swirling wind and flew in off the far post.

In the second half, Stanley were always in control.

They had a great chance to tie up the points 10 minutes from time when Hamer saved from Ian Craney's shot, but Mullin fired the rebound over the bar.

Thankfully for Stanley, it didn't matter.