Windsor scored in each half to beat Langley 2-0 at Holloway's Park on Friday night, bouncing back from a 6-0 defeat to Brook House on Tuesday.

It was more a game of two temperaments than two halves.

Four yellow and two red cards told their own story as a decent-looking Langley side succumbed to a more temperate Windsor who, in turn, were looking for a response to Tuesday’s defeat at Brook House.

In the mercurial Charlie Samuels, Langley always had a potential match-winner, but instead he contrived to get himself sent off in the 32nd minute, having wrestled Liam Jenkins to the ground in the melee that followed a bad foul on Max Jarzabek.

By that time, Windsor had already taken the lead from a corner in the 27th minute when the unmarked Liam Jenkins headed into Ryan Burke’s net from six yards.

With almost an hour to play then, Langley had to somehow retrieve something from the game with just10 men. To their absolute credit, they dug in and created several half chances before the break, with Aoe Onasanya in particular looking a constant threat down the left-hand side.     

Half-time: Windsor FC 1 – Langley FC 0

Windsor continued to press for a second goal to kill the game, with the much-improved Troy Silvera going close on several occasions. Not to be outdone, the effervescent Elias Grant prompted the save of the match from Ryan Burke in the 64th minute, who just managed to push his exquisite left-foot shot from the edge of the area onto the post.

Langley might well have been a man down but they were far from out, even though it was Windsor who would continue to create the better chances in open play.

However, it would take another set-piece goal from the home side in the 70th minute to finally break Langley’s resolve. An almost identical goal to the first - this time it was Kingston White-Glean who headed in from Max Jarzabek’s well-taken corner.

Meanwhile Ryan Burke in the Langley goal decided to embark on a suicide mission and was truly lucky not to be sin-binned for his ongoing dialogue with the referee. Bradley Simmonds in turn managed to talk himself into a red card in injury time, leaving Langley to complete what remained of the game with nine men.

Nathan Green should have made it three for Windsor in the 93rd minute – put clean through with only the keeper to beat he was somehow thwarted by Ryan Burke making another exceptional save to push the ball onto the post.

On Tuesday, Windsor host Burnham in the County Cup (7.45 pm ko).

 

Windsor FC: Keane, Pelliccia, Fares, Souyana, Jenkins, White – Glean, Yusuf, Jarzabek, Silvera, Healey, Grant. Subs: Lewis, Warne, Kemp, Green, Akhsiashvili.