ANOTHER SHOCK AS CITY STUN CLARETS!
OXFORD CITY took momentum from their win over Colchester United in the FA Cup last week by winning their first league game since August, defeating promotionhunting City.
Chelmsford boss Rod Stringer was left frustrated and told The NLP: “We worked hard but made a couple of mistakes again. Teams are picking us off on the back of that when we have had the large share of possession and great chances.”
The visitors took a shock lead in the 13th minute. Craig BrahamBarrett attempted to engineer an attack down the left but lost possession to Mamadou Fofana. The midfielder passed wide to Matt Paterson, who had his drilled cross smashed home by Dave Pearce from close range.
City almost levelled moments later when Chris Assombalonga raced through, but the striker could only manage a deep cross to Matt Johnson, who then shot well wide. Daniel Green then came close, but dragged an effort wide from a corner.
The visitors searched for a second goal to consolidate their lead, with Christian Oxlade-Chamberlain and Rob Sinclair coming close, but another goal eluded them.
City boss Rod Stringer made a change at halftime, with Scott Davies replacing Daniel Green.
Davies was soon splicing the Oxford defence with his passing ability.
But the Clarets were once again made to pay for poor passing when Braham-Barrett’s attempted cross was blocked, the visitors broke and Paterson slid the ball wide to Godfrey Poku who fired beyond Sam Beasant to double the visitors’ lead.
Chelmsford pulled a goal back ten minutes later, though. Max Porter bun- dled home a long throw to give the Clarets hope of clinching a point.
The home side continued to look for an equaliser, but Porter and substitute Chris Dickson were both left ruining missed chances as time ran out.
Chelmsford had two chances to score in the final five minutes as the Clarets created goal-line scrambles. Dickson then stabbed over from just a few yards as Chelmsford continued to demand a goal.
But it was not to be as Oxford City held on with some determined defending to secure all three points from their trip to Essex.