Yeovil Town were unable to break down a resolute Brackley Side during a one-sided second half performance, with all three points going to the hosts.

Ben Wodskou scored the winner in this fixture for the second time this season, this time for Brackley – his first half tap in the difference.

The stats will show the Glovers had far more of the possession, but the hosts did more with less to take the win. Here’s Dave’s on the whistle report.

First half

Almost with their first attack after just three minutes saw Brackley took the lead with almost their first attempt. A poor back pass let former Glover Scott Pollock through on goal only for Jed Ward to come out to meet him but his effort broke to Shane BYRNE who was completely unchallenged to tap in to an empty net.
The equaliser came soon after when a corner swung and it was Kyle FERGUSON who rose highest to head home with 11 minutes gone.
A quick break away by Brackley after 17 minutes saw Ben Wodskou clean through with a one-on-one chance against his old team-mate Jed Ward. The keeper was able to spread himself and deny the on loan Birmingham City loanee, who really should have taken the opportunity
There was another opportunity for Danny Newton just before the half-hour mark when poor marking gifted the experienced striker a free header. On too many occasions we have looked loose at the back and Brackley seem to be sending blood.
They managed to draw blood with two minutes of normal time remaining. The old boys combined with Pollock’s corner in to the danger area stabbed home by Ben WODSKOU, who had scored for Yeovil in the reverse fixture back in August.
In general play, we have dominated the game but the clear cut chances have fallen to the home side who, despite their poor record in front of goal so far this season, have taken them.

Half time: Brackley Town 2 Yeovil Town 1

Second half

James Daly curled one well wide with three minutes of the second half gone, but speculative at best and manager Billy Rowley needed less than ten minutes to make further changes with Terrell Works and Josh Tobin replacing Harvey Greenslade and Jonathan Page with 53 minutes on the clock.
Ten minutes later new boy Ryan Jones replaced Sims and it is fair to say the square root of nothing happened between the two sets of substitutions. Brackley are quite happy to sit back and watch us pass it around in front of them without ever quite finding the breakthrough. The final throw of the dice came 20 minutes from time when Cardiff loanee Troy Perrett replaced Finn Cousin-Dawson, with Tobin dropping back in to defence.
Up until this point, the second half has consisted of us having possession and almost inevitably giving it away to allow Brackley the opportunity to clear the danger or create an opening of their own. Following the changes, you could make an argument that we have a lot of players which have not played together before – but we have looked like that for much of the game.
There were a couple of opportunities where Perrett worked himself some space and had shots blocked by the Brackley defence and he was involved in the best (only?) meaningful opportunity with five minutes remaining. Dakari Mafico found his Cardiff team-mate just inside the box, he touched it on to Luke McCormick whose effort was turned aside by hosts’ keeper Cameron Gregory.
With four minutes of second half stoppage time, a late corner and even goalkeeper Jed Ward came up for it. But, on this day it was no surprise to see it turn in to a farce with an appalling corner leading to a Brackley break whilst Ward were are back towards his goal. In the end there was a covering defender, but that was the end of any kind of attacking threat – if there was any in the first place.

Full time: Brackley Town 2 Yeovil Town 1

 

Match Details

Venue: St James’ Park
Date: Saturday 17th January, 3pm Kick Off

Competition: Enterprise National League

Scorers: S Byrne (1-0 ‘4), Kyle Ferguson (1-1 ’12), B Wodskou (2-1 ’44)

Pitch: Sloped in about six different directions
Conditions: Dry but cool

Attendance: 1125 (319 Yeovil Fans)

Bookings:
Yeovil Town: J Wannell ’45, K Ferguson ’72, J Tobin ’80,
Alvechurch: T Lyttle ’16, S Byrne ’24, Z Brown, ’75

Referee: George Laflin.

Yeovil Town (3-4-1-2)

Substitutes: T Campbell (for Jarvis ’45) T Works (for Greenslade ’52) J Tobin (for Page ’52), R Jones (for Sims ’64), T Perrett (for Cousin-Dawson ’71) M Etefe, J Mukena.

Brackley Town: Cameron Gregory, Tyler Lyttle, Kyle Morrison, Scott Pollock, Zak Brown (for Jack Price ’90), Danny Newton, Matt Lowe, Michael Nottingham (for Lilly ’70), Ben Wodskou (For Roberts ’59), Byron Pendleton, Shane Byrne.

Substitutes (not used): Worby, Hall, Bamba, Calder
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YTFC Bob
6 hours ago

You can add as many creative midfielders as you like but when you have 3 ‘strikers’ who have less than half a dozen goals between them all season, what do you expect? It’s time the club realised that Jarvis, Campbell and Greenslade will not score the goals that this side needs. We can’t just rely on LM to score the goals from midfield.

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Wurzel
39 minutes ago

I’m sorry but it’s just the same old same old! I thought Copper was back! If there were points for playing the ball across midfield we’d be top of the league! Nobody running, nobody giving options, nobody showing initiative and getting into space. I have to agree we have no forward options who are playing well enough and we maybe need to concentrate our spending on that area instead of midfield. The signings this week gave me the hope of something better so i made the the ~300 mile round trip only to be was sadly disappointed.

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