The American made a string of saves throughout the match
that kept the Shots at bay that earned him praise from both his own manager
Kevin Nicholson and Aldershot boss Gary Waddock.
“He (Moore) has done very well, you would fancy Brendan in
those situations,” said Nicholson, who brought himself on a substitute late in
the first half. “He’s got a presence about him, with most of the saves he made I wasn’t as worried as much as you’d thought I might have be.
“It wasn’t as though as we were without threat ourselves,
but we did the ugly side better than we created chances today.”
“It’s a massive credit to the boys that they stayed pretty
calm; for the most part they did the basics well, but take nothing away from
Aldershot - they’re a good side.”Waddock said “He (Moore) had a wordly in fairness to him”.
“He’s had a day today that he will remember for a very long
time. All credit to him, but we’ve got to find a way to beat him and he got the
better of our front players today.
“I’m frustrated because we had chances to win the game, we
had a lot of possession and we did dominate the game for long spells. Moore, who hails from Atlanta, Georgia - the birthplace of civil rights leader Martin Luther King - twice denied Aldershot's Bernard Mensah in the opening 15 minutes of the first half.
After the half-time break, he was called upon to keep Shots' substitute Matt McClure at bay on two occasions in the opening minutes of the second half and on 79 minutes he prevented former Gulls' loanee Shamir Fenelon - formerly Goodwin.
On one occasion when he was beaten - by McClure in the 89th minute - the post came to his rescue.
That's not say United weren't without chances themselves as two of their Aldershot old boys Brett Williams and Damon Lathrope combined to create an opportunity that saw Lathrope head over.
Jamie Reid also had several chances and Joe Ward nearly snatched all three points at the end with the right footed volley that sailed wide, but the Gulls remain indebted to Moore for his heroics.
