Kings Langley’s battling qualities were again to the fore as they held sixth-placed Frome Town to a goalless draw on Saturday.

Following their morale-boosting victory over Hayes & Yeading United, manager Paul Hobbs was able to name an unchanged team and received another totally committed performance as his visiting side picked up a deserved point in their quest to stay in the Southern League Premier Division.

The first incident of note came midway through the first half when a fierce goalbound shot by Jon Davies was headed to safety by Ryan Plowright.

But Kings were growing into the game and Manny Duku broke clear on the half hour as a David Hutton pass beat the offside trap. Pursued by two defenders, his shot was on target, but drew a good save from Kyle Phillips and within a minute Hutton was inches away from a Jerry Amoo cross.

As the game opened up, the Robins had much the better of the final 15 minutes of the opening period, with Davies rattling the crossbar after a surging run and Jake Jackson hitting the post twice, the second time in almost comical slow motion.

But the visitors rallied after the break and caused the home side problems of their own, with Stevie Ward producing some teasing runs on the right, Plowright almost on the end of a superb diagonal ball by Dean Hitchcock and Duku unable to convert a Amoo cross from close range.

A deciding goal at one end or the other seemed a racing certainty as both teams went for the points, but Kings keeper Xavi Comas pulled of a flying save from Davies and minutes later blocked a Jackson effort that then rebounded off the striker into the keeper’s grateful arms.

At the other end, Duku kept his feet when others around him were slipping as the pitch took its toll and drew another good save from Phillips, before a Frome break set substitute James Fitzgibbon bearing down on Comas, only for the Langley custodian to continue his inspired form of five days previously to save the shot.

The back four of Jack Pattison, Emmanuel Folarin, Jorell Johnson and in particular Mayo Balogun were also continuing that form from the Hayes win, soaking up the Robins’ pressure and taking every opportunity to set attacking breaks in motion, meaning the result was still in the balance as the three minutes of time added on progressed.

There was time for one last Kings attack as Ollie Cox received the ball in the inside left position just outside the box. His rasping shot was straight and true and heading for the top right hand corner, before glancing off the head of a defender and just over the bar.

There was no time for the corner kick as the whistle brought a close to an interesting and entertaining game that was high on incident and never boring.

Frome probably saw it as points dropped in their play-off bid, but their opponents viewed it as a hard won point in their momentum-gathering bid to pull away from the drop zone.

Kings Langley: Comas; Pattison, Folarin, Johnson, Balogun; Hitchcock, Plowright; Ward (Cox 61), Hutton, Amoo; Duku. Susb not used: Swales, Verney, Cole.