Manager John Hollins was forced to make two changes for Saturday's visit to the Pirelli Stadium - the injured pair of Stuart Beavon and Stephen Reed being replaced by James Coutts and Josh Webb.

Adam Bygrave continued in place of the suspended Cameron Mawer.

The changes led to Hollins' men adopting a 4-5-1 formation with Chris McPhee taking the lone striker role.

Within 10 minutes the home side had hit the woodwork twice as Weymouth faced heavy early pressure.

Initially Jody Banim's corner was met by Keith Gilroy, but the Albion man saw his header rebound off the crossbar.

When Webb appeared to be harshly penalised Banim took the free-kick from 35 yards and saw the ball come back off the visitors' defensive wall and Weymouth were relieved to see Gilroy's fierce shot come back off the woodwork before Bygrave hacked clear.

It was not until the 23rd minute that Weymouth troubled the home defence when Coutts and Ryan Williams combined well before the ex-Aldershot man crossed into the danger area. However, home skipper Darren Stride was on hand to clear.

Three minutes later Stride was in action at the other end as he rose highest to meet Jake Buxton's free-kick, but Terras' keeper Richard Barnard was able to save his powerful header.

Kevin Sandwith had Weymouth's first shot on target, after 27 minutes, but his sweetly hit free-kick cannoned off of an upright after curling around Burton's defensive wall.

Weymouth surprised just about everyone when they took the lead - with 34 minutes gone. Webb's pass inside found Michael Malcolm with his back to the goal, but the Terras' striker's touch was good enough to leave Stride flatfooted as he turned and fired past Kevin Poole.

Burton came straight back at the visitors and levelled just four minutes later. Gilroy made ground down the left before finding Banim who played a delightful ball into the path of Greg Pearson and the home man made no mistake from 20 yards.

Within two minutes of the restart McPhee, Malcolm and Coutts were all involved in setting up Williams with a shooting opportunity, but his effort flew harmlessly over the crossbar.

Gilroy struck a fierce shot into the side netting, but the referee surprised everybody by awarding a corner, from which ex-Terra John McGrath again found Gilroy who repeated the feat.

Weymouth's injury problems increased when Bygrave suddenly pulled up holding the back of his thigh and the defender appeared in some strife as he was helped from the park with Sam Cutler replacing him.

Barnard came to the rescue when he saved brilliantly from Simpson, after Pearson had opened the Terras' defence with a cleverly threaded through pass.

Although Coutts forced Poole to move smartly to hold on to his header from another Sandwith free-kick, Barnard had to react bravely to save at the feet of Adam Yates and Sandwith produced an excellent tackle to deny Marc Goodfellow as Burton strove to find the winning goal.

Substitute Jon Newby did get the ball into the net, for Albion, but the effort was ruled out as the assistant referee spotted Goodfellow in an offside position and Weymouth were able to hold out for a well-earned point, thus recovering some of the pride lost in last week's humbling at the hands of Histon.