Woodbridge Town 2 Tiptree United 1
	Sunday 13 January 2008
	Tiptree were left to rue a host of missed chances in the 2nd half as Woodbridge held onto their slender half-time lead given to them by the unlikely goal duo of David Kempson & Jonjo Hood-Wright to record their 2nd successive victory.
Mo Rahman was available again after 5 weeks away & was indeed the only 2nd year in the team, while goalkeeper, Nathan Allison was also back in the team. Despite a slow start Woodbridge took an 11th minute lead when Ross Hutchings & Danny Tatum worked a quickly-taken short corner & the latter crossed to the far post & DAVID KEMPSON too advantage of the keeper completely missing the ball to head home. The lead was doubled on the half hour when Rahman celebrated his return with an assist as he crossed from the right for JONJO HOOD-WRIGHT to score his 1st ever Woodbridge goal at the far post. Ben Hutton saw a great effort fly inches wide of the post as Woodbridge threatened a 3rd goal before half-time & James Wright’s mazy run which began on the halfway line looked likely to end in a sensational individual goal until a last-ditch tackle. It had certainly not been one-way traffic & Allison had been tested in the home goal on several occasions, while two other good chances were wasted. It was no real surprise when Tiptree halved the deficit heading in a corner after Allison failed to collect the ball. Apart from an early appeal for a penalty when Hutton appeared to have been brought down & another chance later on for Hutton, which went the wrong side of the post, the 2nd half was dominated by the visitors. There were a number of let-offs as Tiptree players were guilty of some woeful finishing, several times with just Allison to beat! The closest Tiptree came to levelling was when they scrambled the ball following a free-kick which had been superbly saved, but also spilled by Allison, but the offside flag came to Woodbridge’s rescue. Losing the physical presence of Kempson & Hood-Wright to illness & injury respectively, left the make-shift defence stretched & breached, but somehow the ball stayed out of the home goal & Woodbridge recorded a hard-earned & unlikely victory. Team: Allison, Bultitude, Hood-Wright (Holmes 54), Wright, Salisbury, Kempson (Fulker 54), Hutchings, Rahman (Nicklin 62), Hutton, Tatum & Morphew