Woking 2-0 Brackley Town

Enterprise National League 

Laithwaite Community Stadium

29th November 2025

Neal Ardley’s Woking aimed to secure back-to-back league wins for the first time this season when they hosted a Brackley side who had dumped them out of the FA Cup last month.

Ardley would be without Jake Forster-Caskey in midfield who missed out due to injury as well as Matt Ward, with the winger unable to make the squad after taking a knock in midweek.

A fast start from the hosts saw Josh Kelly flick the ball towards Harry Beautyman, but his shot was deflected wide after it looked like he was in on goal.

Woking took the lead with eleven minutes gone when Olly Sanderson controlled the ball, turned his defender before slaloming into the box and finding the bottom corner with absolute ease.

The visitors had struggled to get a foothold in the game before the goal, but Michael Nottingham’s shot at least tested Jaaskelainen before a game changing moment.

Timmy Akinola got to the ball before Zak Lilley by the touchline, who slid into him and fouled the midfielder, and Charles Breakspear brandished a red card, judging the defender to be the last man.

Chances were few and far between for the rest of the first half, with Woking dominating the ball. Aaron Drewe’s ball into Beautyman saw the midfielder unable to head home unmarked on the stretch.

Half-Time: Woking 1-0 Brackley Town

Brackley had the ball in the back of the net just a minute after half time from a corner, but referee Breakspear had blown for a foul on Drewe before the ball ended up in the net. 

Woking were given a penalty just before the hour mark when Jamie Andrews hit the ball against a Brackley arm just inside the box. Josh Kelly passed the ball down the middle of the net to double the Cards’ lead and leave the visitors with a mountain to climb.

They nearly got back into the game almost instantly when Danny Newton got in behind the Woking defence but the ball came back off the inside of the post, a devastating outcome for the visitors. Substitute Scott Pollock then fired just over the bar as Brackley readied the changes.

With Woking in complete control of the game, they should have been out of sight when Drewe cut the ball back to Beautyman, but his scuffed effort was blocked away.

Woking would secure a comfortable three points and back-to-back wins for the first time this season.

Woking: Jaaskelainen, Drewe, Okoli, Tunji Akinola, Odusina, Richards, Timmy Akinola, Andrews, Beautyman (O’Brien 77′), Sanderson (Boatswain 77′), Kelly (Osude 87′)

Unused substitutes: Ross, Hinds, Turner

Goalscorers: Sanderson 11, Kelly 60

Attendance: 2365