Poole Town 1 Oxford City 3

Vanarama National League South

15 October 2016

With 4 on loan players from Oxford United prominent, City belied their lowly National League position to deservedly take all 3 points at Tatnam. Fondup opened the scoring after 23 minutes hitting home a cutback. Burbidge looked lively and fizzed a cross shot wide before a penalty decision went the way of Oxford and it was all uphill from 2 - 0 down.

In spite of losing Pettifer at an early stage Poole should have had high hopes in the second half of getting something out of the game. They pulled a goal back through substitute Surridge but couldn't find anything else and much travelled Jefferson Louis supplied the sucker punch in injury time.

Poole were below their best and Michael Walker who has dug them out of a hole a few times didn't get on to the pitch due to the early injury to Pettifer. Surridge again impressed, scoring a third in 3 games and surely must start the next match. However those who saw the 2 - 0 win away to Hapton the previous week wouldn't have recognised the Poole team that played today. It was very much 'After the Lord Mayor's Show'.

Star Player: Sam Surridge who came on and scored with another good finish to give Poole some hope