GARRARD’S GLEE AFTER WOOD STUN THE CARDS

BOREHAM WOOD extended their unbeaten run to six games and consigned Woking to a first defeat in five matches.

The home team came out on top thanks to Tyrone Marsh’s winner after 15 minutes.

Boreham Wood manager Luke Garrard was delighted with the win and told The NLP: “Woking will feel aggrieved that they didn’t get anything from the game.

“It was a scrappy win but I’ll take that. We’ve played better and lost this season.”

The match took a while to get going but improved as the contest went on. The impressive Jamar Loza went close early on for the visitors but it was Marsh who scored the only goal.

The excellent Femi Ilesamni brought the ball out of defence and played a good ball to Kabongo Tshimanga on the left and his inch-perfect cross was tucked away by Marsh for the former Macclesfield Town player’s ninth league goal of the season.

Woking improved after the goal and had the best of the play for the rest of the first half. Glen Rea and Jake Hyde went close for the visitors and Nathan Ashmore in the Boreham Wood goal made an excellent finger tip save to deny Dave Tarpey.

Boreham Wood’s decision-making in the final third was often wasteful and they created little, going into the interval apart from a Sorba Thomas shot that went out of the ground.

The second half started in must the same vein and Woking’s Max Kretzschmar can consider himself unlucky when his rocket of a shot came off the underside of the crossbar with Ashmore well beaten in the Boreham Wood goal.

The home side came close when, after a flowing team move, Tshimanga fired just over the crossbar.

Kretzschmar was unlucky again when after a good move, his shot went into the side netting. Tshimanga had an excellent opportunity to wrap it late on but his shot was well saved by Craig Ross in the visitors’ goal.

When the referee signalled four minutes of added time, Woking went on the attack in search of their equaliser with goalkeeper Ross nearly getting on the end of a free-kick. Woking’s Jamar Loza was shown a red card following a second yellow card after a foul on Boreham Wood’s Kane Smith and referee Peter Gibbons brought an end to proceedings soon afterwards.

It was a hard-fought win for Boreham Wood and Woking will feel they deserved something from the match.

The win takes the home side up to ninth in the table, just three points away from the play-off places.

Woking on the other hand, drop from fourth to fifth place.