Woking’s first home fixture of October saw the Cards take on 23rd placed Truro City, without an away win all season and coming off the back of a 2-0 home defeat to Eastleigh. By contrast, Neal Ardley’s side saw off Solihull Moors with a convincing 3-0 win in midweek, and it was no surprise to see the Cards unchanged.

As strong winds frequented the Laithwaite Community Stadium, the visitors sought to make a fast start and inside a minute, Christian Oxlade-Chamberlain had a shot blocked before the ball was recycled to Luke Jephcott, who fired over the bar from a tight angle.

Woking had struggled against the strong wind for much of the opening 25 minutes, but when Truro made a mess of clearing a Tariq Hinds cross, skipper Harry Beautyman controlled and half volleyed the ball into the corner from inside the penalty area to break the deadlock.

The Cards couldn’t quite believe they didn’t have a chance to double the lead from the spot when Chin Okoli was pulled down inside the box, but Callum Walchester saw nothing wrong with the challenge.

Connor Riley-Lowe aimed to use the conditions to his advantage when his effort from the byline caused Will Jaaskelainen to punch the swirling ball away well, but Woking were good value for their half time lead.

In a frantic start to the second half, Jaaskelainen was forced into a brilliant save from Jephcott’s low strike, when the forward found space inside the box and hit a low effort that was clawed away, before a swift Woking counter ended in Olly Sanderson picking out Jamie Andrews inside the box, but he was denied by some brilliant defending from Sam Sanders.

Truro were wondering how they hadn’t scored again, twice, when Dom Johnson-Fisher broke away into the box, but Jaaskelainen parried into the path of Will Dean. Somehow, his goalbound effort was brilliantly denied by Jamie Andrews, who diverted away at full stretch before punching the air in delight.

Truro had their equaliser when the lively Johnson-Fisher delivered the perfect cross for Dean to fire into the roof of the net from inside the box, thirteen minutes from time.

Woking nearly provided a response straight from kick off when substitute Josh Kelly picked up the ball and drilled one low towards the corner, but Dan Lavercombe made a fantastic save down to his right. He then somehow collected Okoli’s header low down to his right hand side despite being under huge pressure from a number of players to gather.

Truro had a second goal with just three minutes left when Johnson-Fisher’s effort came back off the post, but Zac Bell prodded home the rebound to potentially give the Cornish side their first away win of the season. 

Cue some late drama, as from kick off, Josh Osude latched onto a chipped through ball before being taken out by Lavercombe. Beautyman calmly put the ball down the middle of the goal from the resulting spot kick to level the scores once again.

In seven minutes of added time, Osude got in behind the Truro defence once again before being brilliantly denied by a combination of defender and Lavercombe. That was the last action of a topsy turvy game as the spoils were shared.