WOODLEY UNITED collected three points at home in their Combined Counties Division One clash at home to Molesey.
Unlike the meeting between the teams two weeks earlier, this was a cadgy game of few chances and in what looked like only one goal would seal victory, this match sprang into life in the final 10 minutes as the rain fell and the surface became slippery.
The opening half hour was an even affair and it was not until thirty minutes had been played that either team created worthwhile scoring opportunities.
Connor Suckling saw Harvey Selleck, the Moles keeper, block an attempt at the second time of asking following a good save in the 32nd minute with Tahir Carmichael driving a low shot wide of goal seven minutes before half time.
Molesey’s Dre Grobler put a header onto the roof of the Woodley goal net, Joe Moriarty cleared the ball following Sam Dabinett’s parry and as the half time approached Harlem Bouchez shot wide of the home goal.
Grobler and Bouchez teamed up six minutes into the second half with the later again shooting wide following a cross to the far post.
Grobler’s header a corner over the cross bar to be followed by Suckling to be flagged off side in the seventieth minute when through on goal.
It was at this stage of the match that Woodley started to exert pressure with the pace of Sib Gbla and Suckling causing the away defence problems as the pitch became wet.
Gbla slipped 10 yards from goal and his weak shot was easily gathered by Selleck in the eighty fourth minute but the same player was rewarded a minute later when he headed Carmichael’s free kick, from the right hand side of the pitch, pass Selleck.
Having worked hard for the lead, United was in no mood to surrender it as they defended Molesey’s response well and harried the opposition for every loose ball.
It was the harrying that led to the second goal in the first minute of stoppage time.
Gbla challenged a defender midway in the visitor’s half and then ran at goal unchallenged to shoot across Selleck and into the keeper’s left hand corner at the railway end of the ground.
In scoring this goal Gbla had scored the team’s last seven consecutive goals.
Two minutes later Connor Suckling completed the scoring with a fine individual goal.
Carmichael cleared a Molesey free kick, deep in the Woodley half, up to the half way line where Suckling received the ball and out ran the high defending line.
Despite being forced wide towards the right wing, Suckling on entering the penalty area coolly shot low to score off the bottom inside far left post beyond the diving Selleck.
Woodley safely negotiated the remaining two minutes of stoppage time to take the match points and extend its unbeaten run to four games.
Woodley United: Dabinett, Davies, Jeczalik (Barracos), Carmichael, Williams, Moriarty, Suckling, Brandao, Gbla (Bull), Stevens (Monteiro), Richardson (Ahamed) Sub not used: Watkiss
Goals: Gbla x2, Suckling
