Jets Power Through
Oxhey Jets 3 Windsor 1
Cherry Red Combined Counties Division One
9th November 2024
Jets extended their unbeaten run to nine with a 3-1 win over Windsor at the Boundary Stadium.
The game started in a frenzy with chances at both ends, and it was Lewis Lavin on three occasions making superb point-blank saves to keep the Jets level, then the returning Patrick Brander came within inches of opening for the hosts.
The Jets were scrappy today, with an “after the Lord Mayor show” performance following the big crowd and Royal Navy match, but hard work and graft made up the ground for the Jets, and the epitome of that was coming from George Rice.
Rice’s perfect through ball to Player of the Month Dom Mosca opened the scoring as Mosca cracked an unstoppable shot high into the net. ( 1-0 21 mins)
Minutes later, Rice had a big chance himself but shot inches over. Then Joe Read looked to have headed home from a corner, but again, it was just over the bar.
Windsor had a giant escape when Mosca played in Rice, who was taken down. Inexplicably, the referee gave it outside the box, and the free kick went over.
Body Strength outweighed touch today, and TJ and Kimber battled hard and won the challenges in this tight game, which stayed 1-0 Jets at the break.
The second half was much the same. There were chances at both ends, with both sides failing to grab the vital goal; again, Lavin, in goal, made two crucial saves, and both sides had the ball in the net. Still, both were ruled out by an assistant’s flag, but with time running out, Troy White headed Windsor back level from a corner following a pressure period. (1-1 85 mins)
Luke Nugent picked up, I think, the quickest-ever yellow card less than a minute after joining the game for kicking the ball into the pitch fence, which is about a yard from the touchline!!!
The shared points looked bolt-on until a superb run by TJ, who jinked and forced his way through just two minutes after the equaliser and a power drive from an incredibly tight angle nestled into the net 2-1 (87 min).
To complete in a blink of the eye Jets did it again, and David Lopes slotted for 3-1 (89 min)
It was not pretty, but it was job done.
The man of the match looked out of two contenders in a scrappy game: Lewis Lavin and George Rice. The energy and determination to chase and hassle everything led Tom Inch to give the decision to George Rice.