Christmas is traditionally a time for excess, and on Saturday Uxbridge got prepared for the upcoming festive season, by filling their boots with an eight goal demolition of visiting Horndean. It was also the day they gave their new electronic scoreboard its debut - and certainly gave it a good thorough testing as the goals tally mounted up.
The home side were up and running early on, as in just the fifth minute a knock down from a corner fell invitingly to George Moore just inside the box, and he lashed the ball home with a first time volley past visiting keeper Cameron Scott - something that he would get increasingly familiar with as the game wore on. The trick was nearly repeated four minutes later when another corner fell invitingly to Moore, and his sweetly struck shot was heading for the net, only for defender Kyle Bailey to head away at the last minute, with the keeper beaten. Uxbridge continued to press forward, and were unlucky not to double the lead on eleven minutes, when a combination of he bar and the keepers head, kept out a lobbed shot from Moore again. Chances were coming thick and fast now and Kai Hobbs had gone close, before Uxbridge did double their lead, it was on twenty minutes when Josh Addae made inroads on the right hand side, and he fed Andrio Brandao on the edge of the box, the midfielder took one touch and then rifled the ball into the corner of the net for a fine finish. If Horndean thought things couldn’t get any worse, they soon did just before the half hour when Zackery Willett received a straight red card for a late high tackle on Fabio Sole - leaving them with the best part of an hour to play with only 10 men. Brandao was in the thick of the action, and he curled a shot narrowly wide, just after as the visitors struggled to keep the ball. The game was put out of reach for them just before the break though, with two quickfire goals. Firstly on 44 minutes Ada Okorogheye held up the ball in the box, and his pass found George Moore on the run, to cooly round the keeper and slot home his second, before Okoroghye himself netted in stoppage time after good work from Brandao to beat the defender and cross for an easy finish from the striker from a couple of yards out.
HT 4-0
Uxbridge could have easily taken their foot off the pedal in the second half, but not a bit of it, just after the break Casey Bocarro headed over, and shortly after had a shot well tipped round the post by Scott. The fifth goal did arrive though just past the hour, as George Moore completed his hat-trick as some neat interplay around the box, he found enough space to fire the ball home just inside the box. With 15 league goals so far this season, Moore is proving instrumental in Uxbridge's season - and long may it continue. By now heads and well and truly dropped for the visitors, and Uxbridge were attacking at will, the sixth goal arrived as CJ Fearn was impeded in the box at a corner, for a penalty that nobody seemed to notice had been given. Regardless, substitute Alex Witham stepped up to calmly slot the ball home. With ten to play, Uxbridge worked a fine seventh goal as Okorogheye broke away from a rare Horndean attack, he raced into the box, before laying the ball off to Leo Decabo who expertly placed the ball into the top corner, there was time for Okorogheye to notch his second - and Uxbridge’s eighth - when on 85 minutes the striker again broke into the box, turned his defender and fired another excellent finish into the top corner. There was time for Scott to deny Decabo another goal, when he did well to smother a low shot. George Legg in the Uxbridge goal had been a virtual spectator for most of the match, but was called on late on - when he did well to block a shot from a rare Horndean break - picking up a knock in the process - but all was well and Uxbridge saw the game out
All in all an amazing afternoon's work, and a complete contrast to the defeat by Hartley Wintney two weeks ago, all the team and management should take great credit from the performance, and The Reds go into that festive period in good spirits.
FT 8-0
Att 115
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