Against an in form Brook House side who in recent weeks had beaten league champions Windsor & Eton and drawn with second place Westside, Woodley gave one of their best performances of the season to secure an important three points in their bid to avoid relegation,
Manager, Jordan Blake made several changes to the starting XI due to this being the team’s third game in six days which proved to be pivotal as the fresh legs enabled the team to be positive from the start and full of running.
Ty Moorcroft outran the home defence in the first minute only to shot wide which set the tempo for the game. However, it was against the run of play that Mike Koscion gave the hosts the lead in the twelfth minute scoring from a tight angle on near to the goal line.
Undeterred, United continued to pressure the home goal forcing a number of corners and seeing Moorcroft put a shot over the crossbar and our running the defence sone forty yards from goal only to be challenged as he prepared to shoot.
A United free kick in the thirty first minute was headed across Brook House’s penalty are by Eden Downes where the ball hit a defender’s arm for a penalty kick which was converted by Dylan Clark.
Downes was involved in the second goal three minutes later when his inside the Woodley half split the home defence allowing Jude Van Spall to run onto the ball a shoot low past home goalkeeper Adam Childs.
Woodley safely navigated the opening ten minutes of the second half and were rewarded with their third goal in the sixty seventh minute. Moorcroft’s long throw was headed by a defender to the back of his penalty are to Keiran Maylen who passed to Kian Leahy to score his first goal for the club. Man of the match Leahy had an opportunity shortly afterwards to double his tally but shot at Childs.
This was followed by a period of Brook House pressure which resulted in a number of free kicks and corners that Woodley successfully defended and with good use of substitutions United regained control of the match.
The final goal came in the second minute of second half stoppage time Clark received the ball from Ousman Darboe and twenty five yards from goal shot into Childs’ top left hand corner.
Hill, Alozie (Podgorski), E Downes, Leahy (Creech), Maylen, Wint (Fanstone), Adam, Clark, Moorcroft, J Van Spall (Ousman), Garofalo (Day)