Blue
Square Premier - 30th September 2007
At The Kassam Stadium - Att 4,944
Report
The Minstermen maintained their recent improvement with a 1-1
draw at Oxford United. Stuart
Elliott (31) missed a penalty before Michael Corcoran headed
in Alex Jeannin's free-kick six minutes later. Leading scorer
Onome Sodje headed
an equaliser from Martyn
Woolford's cross nine minutes from time.
Striker Onome Sodje scored for the third successive game as
the visitors claimed a deserved late point at Oxford United.
Sodje headed home his fifth goal of the season following Martyn
Woolford's cross nine minutes from time to cancel out Michael
Corcoran's 37th minute opener.
The visitors should already have been ahead six minutes before
that as Stuart Elliott's penalty was saved by Billy Turley after
striker Paul Brayson
had been fouled in the area by Corcoran.
The Minstermen opened strongly and went close to taking the
lead in the third minute when Ben
Purkiss' cross was headed against the crossbar by Brayson.
York centre-back Darren Kelly headed over from Purkiss' free-kick
three minutes later, while Woolford also volleyed over the bar
from 20-yards as the visitors continued to dominate.
Midfielder Elliott's 25-yard free-kick then took a deflection
off the wall on its way through to keeper Turley in the 15th
minute, before home centre-back Barry Quinn headed Alex Jeannin's
corner over at the opposite end five minutes later.
The visitors again threatened when skipper Emmanuel
Panther exchanged passes with Sodje on 26 minutes and surged
into the area before firing a 15-yard attempt straight at Turley.
The Minstermen missed a glorious opportunity to take the lead
on the half-hour when Elliott's quick free-kick prompted clever
work in the area from Brayson, who drew a clumsy challenge from
Corcoran.
But the hosts were allowed to escape as their opponents proved
wasteful from the spot for the second successive away game when
Elliott's sidefooted penalty was turned around his left-hand
post by Turley.
That miss appeared even more costly when the visitors fell behind
five minutes later.
York centre-back David
McGurk was penalised on the edge of the area for a foul
on striker Yemi Odubade, with left-back Jeannin curling in a
free-kick from the right that was headed into the net by CORCORAN.
Woolford poked the ball away from Eddie Anaclet at the far post
sixty seconds later, before Quinn stabbed home from the subsequent
corner - but the effort was ruled out after striker Rob Duffy
had collided with keeper Stephen Henderson.
The visitors were first to show after the break when McGurk
headed wide from Brayson's 52nd minute cross following a short
corner routine with Woolford, while home striker Paul Shaw narrowly
failed to reach Jeannin's cross at the near post five minutes
later.
York midfield enforcer Elliott also struck a free-kick over
in the 68th minute after Matt Day had fouled Panther, before
the visitors made a couple of substitutions that saw Nicky Wroe
replace Panther on 73 minutes, and recent signing Russell Fry
take over from Meechan four minutes later.
The Minstermen were finally rewarded for their positive display
nine minutes from time when determined work from Sodje forced
Day into conceding a corner.
Woolford's initial cross from the right was blocked, but after
receiving a return pass from substitute Fry his second attempt
found the predatory SODJE heading into the
roof of the net from seven-yards.
Sodje then almost settled the contest six minutes later when
receiving Robinson's quick free-kick and getting round the back
of home substitute Chris Willmott before flashing the ball inches
wide of the far post.
Ref: P Gibbs
The Teams
Oxford: Billy Turley, Eddie Anaclet, Matt Day,
Barry Quinn (Chris Willmott 55), Michael Corcoran, Alex Jeannin,
Eddie Hutchinson (Carl Pettefer 65), Phil Trainer, Paul Shaw,
Robert Duffy (Gary Twigg 42), Yemi Odubade
Subs (unused): Alex Cisak, Daniel Rose
Booked: Day (35), Jeannin (74), Turley (89)
York City: Stephen Henderson, Ben Purkiss,
David McGurk, Darren Kelly, Mark Robinson, Alex Meechan (Russell
Fry 77), Emmanuel Panther (Nicky Wroe 73), Stuart Elliott, Martyn
Woolford, Paul Brayson, Onome Sodje
Subs (unused): Tom Evans, Darren Craddock, Danny Parslow
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