Woodley United 7 (4) v Sandhurst Town 0 (0)
Against a youthful Sandhurst side, United brought their run of four defeats to an end in a comprehensive manner to move back into a promotion play off position. From their kick off Woodley created the first goal scoring opportunity in the opening minute when Dylan Clark withstood the challenge of two players to shoot wide from United’s right hand side.
Sandhurst was lively forcing Woodley’s Joe Hill to gather the ball before the scoring was opened in the fourth minute when visiting goalkeeper Lyall Kennedy punched a free kick clear of his penalty area which Harvy Collins collected and shot from twenty yards to Kennedy’s right to find the net to give the hosts the lead.
The game was being played at a frantic pace that saw a Town shot go across the Woodley goal area and Woodley winning a number of corners and free kicks that caused the visiting defence problems. It was from two corners that further goals were scored.
A retaken corner kick from the right in the twentieth minute to the far post saw Kieran Maylen head the ball across the goal area and off a defender into his own net. A repeat ploy in the thirty seventh minute saw Maylen’s far post header find the net despite the best attempts of a Sandhurst play to clear the ball after it cross the goal line.
A variation on a corner led to the fourth goal when again from the right the ball was played to the edge of the penalty area where Clark struck it from twenty yards to find the net to Kennedy’s right.
Sandhurst stated the second half lively forcing two comfortable saves from Joe Hill but it was again a corner that was nearly their undoing when Archie Simpson headed wide of the goal. Hill was twice called upon to make saves that lead to corner kicks while United looked to regain momentum following making a number of substitutions which were to prove beneficial with the remaining goals coming from the replacement players.
Jude Van Spall played the ball wide to Dylan Clark who ran at the penalty area and cross low along the goal line for Harvey Oates to score his first goal for the club in the seventy fifth minute. Clark was involved in the sixth goal two minutes from the end of normal time when his free kick rebounded back into play off the crossbar where Connor Suckling scored from eight yards. Three minutes into added time Suckling scored a second, and Woodley’s seventh when he won a challenge for the ball on the right hand side of Town’s penalty area to be followed by curling a shot into the top left hand corner of the Sandhurst goal net.
Hill, Simpson, Collins (Suckling), Campbell (Leahy), Maylen, Downes (Naicker), Clark, Creech, Hamblin (Oates), Van Spall, Barlow (Taplin)