ACE CHARLIE ENSURES IT A TREBLE TOPS FOR GLOVERS
YEOVIL Town completed a clean sweep over Woking this season, courtesy of Charlie Wakefield’s firsthalf strike.
Having already knocked Woking out of the FA Trophy, the Glovers duly completed the league double over the Cards to end a run of four successive league defeats, despite the 63rd-minute sending off of Mark Little.
The game was only four minutes old when Joe McNerney wasted a glorious chance for the hosts by volleying over when unmarked inside the six yard box.
That miss by the Cards captain for the day proved pivotal in the early exchanges of the game when the centre-half misjudged a header which Wakefield pounced on going through on goal to finish with aplomb.
The former Chelsea U23 midfielder enjoys facing Woking after scoring against the Cards when playing for Bromley and bagging a goal in the Glovers earlier league victory at Huish Park.
Despite only one win in their last eight league games, the Glovers were full of confidence but for Woking it was an opening 45 minutes they would want to forget. Woking were clearly missing the services of Tahvon Campbell – sold to Rochdale this week– and injured Max Kretzschmar’s 22 goals between them and failed to register a shot on target. New signing Nicke Kabamba started on the bench.
Cards boss Alan Dowson made a double change at half-time by bringing on Tarryn Allarakhia and the changes improved the Cards who looked a lot sharper after the break.
Woking were given hope of salvaging something from the game on 62 minutes when Yeovil were reduced to ten men after defender Little was shown a second yellow card.
With a numerical advantage, chances fell to the Cards with Jamar Loza’s goal bound shot taking a wicked deflection, David LongeKing’s header just wide of the post and Jermaine Anderson’s shot smothered by Grant Smith.
However, apart from this, the Glovers defence held firm to claim their first win of 2022 and move them up to 11th in the table, with Woking dropping down to 14th.
A relieved Glovers manager Darren Sarll said: “There was some heart-in-mouth moments. Sometimes you have those days when you are resolute and have to fight for your life and today was one of them. The players were excellent and the team that finished was such a young team.”
Woking’s assistant manager Martin Tyler added: “For the second time in a week we have handed the opposition a goal.
“Without finding the back of the net and not scoring and conceding a bad goal is a very difficult combination to deal with.”