Oakwood were without a few key players for this tough away game against Seaford Town, Oakwood had only played one league match this year so were expected to be rusty and slow to get into the game.

Oakwood started with a 4-3-3 formation looking to go home with a win against the bottom of the league opposition, although it wasn’t going to be a breeze.

Oakwood started with an urgency and endeavor creating chances in the 1st minute and in the 2nd they had scored through Dean Lovegroves persistence, chasing down the defender coming out the victor of a 50/50 challenge seeing him with the goal in his cross hares, he placed the ball past the keeper with relative ease.

The 2nd goal came only 10 mins after the 1st with a great little wall pass between Clive Piller and Toby Gilbert, loosing his marker and the goal opened up for Piller to hit the back of the net with a placed side foot shot.

On the 18th Min a cross was delivered across the box for the midfield duo of Piller and Miller to create the 3rd. Piller un-selfishly controlled the cross and brought the ball down into the path of the on coming miler to fire the ball in to the bottom corner for the Oaks to take a commanding lead.

Although the Oaks were 3 up they certainly weren’t firing on all cylinders and frustration started to play a part, the team were over playing and complicating a game that they could have sealed in the 1st half.

Half time came and Oaks were 3 – 0 up and had chances to go further ahead and were lucky the Home team had hit the woodwork 3 times in the opening half.

The second half started with the same vigor from Oakwood but this time they were out playing Seaford and making it hard for them to get possession. Seaford you could see was struggling to keep up with the slick second half performance. Oakwood were knocking the ball around quickly and with confidence probing the Seaford Fullback at every occasion.

Seaford Town had conceded their 4th within 10mins of the restart with a venomous shot from Toby Gilbert deflecting over the keeper and nestling the back of the net.

The 5th was long in coming and Gerrald Manville notched up another goal in his Oakwood Tally.

Seaford looked defeated and their frustrations were building with physical challenges being made all over the park, Oakwood were now playing really well and continued to press and create opportunity after opportunity, it was a one sided half with Jess Grimstone only touching the ball twice with pass backs from the defenders.

In the 85th min the final Oakwood goal came from a lovely piece of 2 touch play working the ball across to the right hand wing and Darren tidy lofted a cross to the back post for Gilbert nod past the challenging keeper his 2nd of the game

Oakwood Lineup
Jess Grimstone, Des Jemwa, Charlie Adsett, Glen Woodburn, Scott Faber, Clive Piller, Grant Miller, Dean Lovegrove, Toby Gilbert , Gerald Manville, (Mark Gilbert), Darren Tidey