Tue, 25 Nov 2025 โข 19:45
SEAH Stadium

Telford

Oxford City
Enterprise National League North

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OFFICIALS: Today's match referee is Scott Henry, he's assisted by Joshua Cliffe and Mohd Sarwari. The fourth Official is Lewis Atkinson

TEAM NEWS: Here's the Boro line-up selected by managers Anthony Johnson and Bernard Morley.


TEAM NEWS: Kevin Wilkin makes one change from the team in midweek. Dinanga comes in and replaces Hilton.

Tonight's SEAH Stadium Attendance: 941.
It's a bitterly cold evening, so we thank you for every bit of support - we hope the performance and result gave you a nice warm feeling, even if the weather didn't!

FULL TIME: The Bucks secure their biggest league victory of the season, with four different scorers, two scorers getting their first goals for the club, and a clean sheet into the bargain. Not a bad Tuesday...

Cawthorne rounds off the scoring from close range and enjoys his celebration with the Bucks fans behind the goal, that's a great moment.

Oliver asks for more, and gets it!


Dinanga cuts in from the left and has another shot blocked before the Bucks make a substitution... ON: Dylan Allen-Hadley. OFF: Khanya Leshabela.
We're into a minimum of five added minutes.
Dinanga bagged the third as Cranston's low cross from a driving run on the left was cleared to him, and Ricky blasts it past an exposed Pardington.
Ricky joins in!


City wins a corner on the right, Cawthorne watches it in flight and gets up to powerfully head clear of his penalty area.
Piggott is fouled and is on his knees in the centre circle, taking a bit of a bang on the head, I think, but he's soon back on his feet, as the Bucks take the resulting free-kick.
Parker's involved twice in quick succession, stumbling and feeling he was fouled by Fletcher, then surging away on the right as the Bucks' counterattack in response broke down. Parker goes for a return ball and he won't get there, his body language says a lot.

Bucks substitution.
ON: Adan George, Ricardo Dinanga. OFF: Matty Stenson, Charlie Williams.

The Bucks clear the corner, more fresh legs on the way for the hosts soon...

City force a corner on the right, Burrougs in the box as the away side look for a way back into the game. They've not quit on the task, even if their chances have been limited.
Cranston turns the ball out for a corner on the left after an incisive burst from City carries them into the box and results in a low cross that had to be dealt with. The Bucks deal with the corner.
A bit of aggravation in what's been a very clean game as Cranston is stood over McEachran on the floor and Burroughs pushes Cranston, causing more contact with McEachran. There are a few words and a bit of glaring, and then it all passes.
A bit of aggravation in what's been a very clean game as Cranston is stood over McEachran on the floor and Burroughs pushes Cranston, causing more contact with McEachran. There are a few words and a bit of glaring, and then it all passes.
Oh, Jimmy! The Bucks midfielder has the ball in the box with just Pardington to beat, tries to sit the keeper down and can't get his shot away.
The Bucks stop a purposeful dart to the edge of the box by Campton-Sturridge and then counterattack with Armson, whose flighted ball for Stenson's head doesn't find Matty.
Close to a third as Meddows arrives onto Williams' ball to the right of the box, but Jamie slips a little and then finds the side netting, perhaps off-balance as he hit his shot.
Khanya Leshabela has seen Fletcher score his first Bucks goal and thinks "Why not me?", however his shot on the run, 25 yards out, is mishit and flies high and wide. I think Matty Stenson will feel he should have had the pass there...

Bucks substitution.
ON: Jimmy Armson. OFF: Remi Walker.
A lone City player claims handball in the box as a cross fails to reach Parker. Fletcher takes possession and is fouled, free-kick to the hosts.
Meddows picks the pocket of City substitute Potter, but then the ball runs out of his control as he tries to bring it forward.

Bucks substitution.
ON: Jamie Meddows. OFF: Rhys Hilton.

City substitutions.
ON:Alfie Potter, Zach McEachran. OFF: Latrell Humphrey-Ewers, Isaac Westendorf.
City are preparing a double change as Stenson has a chance on the edge of the box; he slips the ball wide of a defender but the touch is too heavy, he was aiming to move onto that and shoot.
We've got frost settling on the pitch here, but the Bucks are warming to the task of securing three points here. This game's not done, but the Bucks have a degree of control now, and City have to take risks if they're going to try and claim any reward.
Walker chases the ball down with Wiggett in possession in his own box, facing Pardington, and his keeper kicks clear with Remi breathing down his neck.
Matty Stenson has tried to beat Pardington from the half-way line, channelling his Kenny McLean but finding the 6ft 5in keeper's gloves as he backpedalled to get underneath the dropping ball.
The Bucks grab the vital second goal, and it's Alex Fletcher's first goal for the club that puts us in the box seat. Cranston's free-kick was partially cleared, Alex controlled it, 12 yards out, and leathered it home.
"This is your captain scoring..." FLETCH!

Dyer surges down the right touchline, chases his own kick forwards and is then pushed off the ball to concede a free-kick for the Bucks, 10 yards out, on the left edge of the box.
City substitute Campton-Sturridge has taken up a position on the right of the attack, again a positive statement from Ross Jenkins, the City manager.
At 1-0, City has got to feel that there's still something in this game for them, and there is, unless the Bucks can get a second goal. If you think that's leading to me saying the next goal is crucial... you're correct. How predictable, eh? ๐

We're back in progress...
There's a half-time substitution for the visitors. ON: DJ Campton-Sturridge. OFF: Genero Maragh.
HALF TIME: Matty Stenson's 7th minute goal separates the teams at the break.

HALF TIME: Matty Stenson's 7th minute goal separates the sides at the break.

Pardington kicks clear from a backpass as a Bucks attack breaks down, there shouldn't be much added time as we've barely had a stoppage. Indeed, there it is, a minimum of one additional minute.
Dyer collects a ball played crossfield to the right, and turns, looking inside before lifting a through ball for Walker. It's to the left of Pardington's goal, Remi applies the brakes, perhaps feeling he won't reach it, and he doesn't. Goal kick.
I'd love to know how close Matty Stenson's glancing header from Cranston's free-kick came to the net, it can't have missed by much. Matty got ahead of his marker and I though that was goal no.55 as a Buck, but no, not yet.

Another Bucks foray forwards breaks down, but they soon win an attacking free-kick, 30 yards out, wide on the left...

The visitors have hung in here, and the Bucks' intensity has inevitably dropped a little, the energy levels were really high in the opening 20-25 minutes.

Stenson picks up a loose ball, 30 yards from goal, and he's off, tearing into space on the right and firing a cross over that Walker is close to, but not close enough.

Williams has a chance to advance, to the right of centre, a City defender makes a block but the Bucks get a corner on the right. Nothing comes of it.

City's spell of pressure brings a couple of blocked shots and a corner on the left. It's sent to the back post, Fletcher challenges foe a header and the ball pings around a bit before it leaves the box.

City come forward and Isaac Westendorf carries the ball to the left of the box and then finds Josh Parker in the centre. There's no path through for him and the Bucks force City backwards, but then retrieve and come again.

Walker gives chase to a ball into the outside left channel and Hilton is tearing down the centre if Remi can spot him. He does, but his intended ball across the edge of the box is cut out.

City wins a corner, Cawthorne heads it powerfully clear of the six-yard box and the Bucks once again look to come forward.
The home side are putting pressure on Oxford quickly when they get possession, not allowing them to settle. They win possession in the right-hand corner and Leshabela runs it clear, finding Williams, but Jacob Roddy outmuscles him.
Cranston with a controlled header back to Josh Gracey, cushioning it away from an Oxford man at his back.
Yikes, Genero Maragh manages to bring the ball down from a Bucks cross but he had to be sure. He was facing Pardingotn in his six-yard, box, too heavy a touch and that could have been awkward.
Oxford are dashing this way and that at the moment, trying to put out fires as the Bucks move the ball around comfortably. Williams is flagged offside on the left... no, seriously, this time he was definitely off.
Cranston overcooks a cross from the left, the Bucks playing themselves out of a bit of Oxford pressure and switching play right to left. Everyone's looking sharp this evening, Oxford are hanging in there but no question the Bucks are on top.
The corner is cleared, Oxford attempt to counterattack down the right and Cranston clears up the danger.

My word, a cross from Ammar Dyer on the right almost drops in at the far post. Dyer went past his man to the line, crossed and it went over Pardington and was turned out at the far post as Stenson closed in.

The Bucks have a corner on the right. Cranston takes, Stenson makes a near post run, doesn't make contact but is quickly onto the loose ball and from a tight angle lifts a cross back into the six yard box that goes out of play, clipping the back of the crossbar.
Close to a second goal for Matty as he battles Charlie Wiggett and the defender just wins the ball, but Charlie Williams regains possession and Matty tries to lift a little delicate lob over Pardington to his left, it drops just wide.
A clinical finish from Matty Stenson, put through against Pardington on the left of the penalty area and he beats the keeper to his left, finding the far corner in decisive fashion. A great start rewarded with a goal.
It's that man again, ole, ole!


I spy gloves on Rhys Hilton and Jordan Cranston, and I think Remi Walker wished he had some as he had his shirt sleeves gripped in his hands as he prepared to kick the game off. It's certainly a chilly evening.

The Bucks earn a corner on the left; they're swarming around the Oxford box but haven't tested Jamie Pardington yet. The corner brings no threat on his goal.
Good early Bucks intent, Williams crosses from the left after Leshabela picked up possession and surged forward. Stenson and Walker are both in support, Matty puts the ball towards the centre from the right, it's cleared.
An early Bucks attack sees Remi Walker have a shot from the 'D' charged down and the visitors clear.
We're in progress...
The Bucks will kick off, and they'll be attacking the goal at the Frank Nagington Stand in the first half.
COLOURS: The teams emerge and the Bucks are clad in all white, with the visitors in a fetching highlighter pen green shirts, shorts and socks. No missing them this evening!
The visitors feature several ex-Bucks; we welcome George Burroughs and Josh Ashby back to the SEAH Stadium, and Jamie Pardington also, who kept a clean sheet for us in the 6-0 Emirates FA Cup victory at Darlington.
OFFICIALS: Tonight's match referee is Jonathan Chadwick, assisted by Luke Bowles and Jamie Roberts. The fourth official is Keir Sheppard.
TEAM NEWS: Here's the Oxford City starting XI and substitutes selected by manager Ross Jenkins for this evening's fixture.

TEAM NEWS: Kevin Wilkin makes one change to the Bucks starting XI that took a point from league leaders South Shields on Saturday. IN: Rhys Hilton. OUT: Jamie Meddows.
