Sutton extended their unbeaten run to seven games on Saturday when they returned from the long trip to Somerset with a point that might have been better had they taken greater advantage of being clearly the better side in the first half, but equally might have been worse as the home side looked more like a side just outside the play-off zone in the second half and forced several heart-stopping moments for the Sutton supporters who had made the trip down the M4. Indeed both goals led something of a charmed life in the second half and, while not coming close to the quality of the goalless draw against Dover earlier in the season, the game ultimately contained enough to avoid being condemned as a stereotypical stalemate.

That didn't appear likely in a first twenty minutes which contained little in the way of incident apart from two Sutton corners lifted in to the six-yard box in a manner that suggested a belief that home goalkeeper Lloyd Irish might be vulnerable to pressure. Although the fact that he failed to gather either of them gave encouragement to that view, the home defence came to his rescue on both occasions. Any threat Weston might have carried came to grief through their willingness to run offside at almost every opportunity, a failing that would prove crucial later on, and when Nat Pepperell did find some space to run at Paul Telfer, an uncompromising challenge from Sutton's player-coach snuffed out the danger at the expense of a yellow card. A minute later the home side's Dayle Grubb was also in the book for a late challenge on Tommy Kavanagh, and this led to the first on-target shot of the game, although Irish was not seriously troubled by Leroy Griffiths' low free kick.

Just after the half hour mark Sutton's four-goal star from the previous week had the target in sight again, this time after Harry Beautyman had done well on the right to beat Jamie Laird to a ball for which the defender seemed favourite and picked out Griffiths with a cross, but although on target the striker's header lacked the power to beat Irish. Griffiths' next appearance in the penalty area provoked a moment of controversy as he appeared to receive a hefty shove from Jamie Price as he moved to try and head on a cross from the right but there was no reaction from well-placed referee Richard Martin, whose otherwise frequent whistling, particularly pedantic over the positions of several free kicks, was a recurring frustration in the game's less gripping moments. Three minutes before half-time U's had their best chance when Griffiths seized on a misplaced pass and put Craig Watkins through, but Irish was quickly off his line to save, and the home side finished the half with their first opening, but perhaps the best to either side when Chris Young's pass for once found Pepperell onside and clear with just Kevin Scriven to beat, but he shot wide of the near post.

If that was a scare for Sutton, there was an even bigger one twelve minutes in to the second half when Young found himself in space on the right and fired the ball low across goal past Scriven, and although Nabi Diallo seemed to need only a touch to score from virtually on the goal-line, the attentions of Chris Piper diverted the ball back in to the arms of a surprised, though grateful, Scriven. Both sides then made changes, nippy striker Sahr Kabba coming on for the home side while U's went for the more muscular approach with Craig Dundas, but Weston were enjoying much more of the game now than previously, and Simon Downer had to match the quality of Piper's earlier intervention to head clear under pressure from Price after Ben Kirk had headed on Ben Cleverley's free kick.

U's looked to counter Weston's increasing prominence by bringing on Karl Murray, but it was their third change, Fola Orilonishe replacing Griffiths, that almost bore fruit as he might have scored with what would have been his first touch, just failing to reach a good cross to the far post from Beautyman. Two minutes later they came closer to scoring than at any time in the game as Downer met Beautyman's corner with a powerful header that was blocked on the goal-line, and despite the efforts of Downer and Dundas to force the rebound in the ball refused to go the extra inches and Weston scrambled it away. Having almost gone ahead, U's looked to have gone behind within a minute as Kabba fired the ball across Scriven from the right and substitute Kane Ingram turned it in at the far post, but he had, like his team-mates throughout the afternoon, failed to stay onside and the assistant's flag cut short the celebrations. U's had a second appeal for a penalty turned down when Dundas went over in a tangle of legs on the edge of the penalty area, while at the other end a momentary mix-up between Downer and Scriven almost let in Kabba, but they recovered the situation by preventing the lively substitute from getting in a shot, and when Pepperell did eventually send the ball goalwards, it was with little power and Sam Page headed clear with ease. Right at the end Orilonishe's pace took him through on the left but his cross flashed across goal too high for anyone to apply what would, with the game in stoppage time, have been a winning touch.

Sutton: K Scriven, C Piper, P Telfer, H Beautyman, S Downer, S Page, A Riviere, T Kavanagh (sub K Murray 64), L Griffiths (sub F Orilonishe 70), C Watkins, T Taggart (sub C Dundas 59). Subs n/u A Bray, N Taylor. Booked: Telfer (25-foul).

Weston-super-Mare: L Irish, J Price, J Laird, D Grubb (sub B Trowbridge 87), M Villis, J Martin, N Diallo, B Kirk, C Young (sub S Kabba 59), B Cleverley(sub K Ingram 64), N Pepperell. Subs n/u M Mackay, M Huxley. Booked: Grubb (26-foul), Price (86-persistent infringement), M Villis (89-foul).

Referee: Richard Martin (Frampton Cotterell). Attendance: 395