Solihull Moors 0-3 Woking
Enterprise National League
ARMCO Arena
30th September 2025
Neal Ardley’s Woking arrived at the ARMCO Arena winless in four and desperate for a result against a Solihull side whose fortunes had started to turn. Ardley brought in Aiden O’Brien, Jamie Andrews, Olly Sanderson, Aaron Drewe and Jack Turner for Timi Odusina, Timmy Akinola, Matt Ward, Jake Forster-Caskey and Josh Kelly.
A low key start saw Moors try and test the backline with long throw after long throw, but nothing was falling for them. It took until past the half hour mark for a significant chance of note when Callum McFarlane benefitted from a ricochet to collect the ball inside the box, but his shot on the swivel went wide.
Woking’s first shot saw Turner let fly from range and had Laurie Walker worried for half a second before going wide of the corner, before two openings for Sanderson just before half time nearly saw the Cards go in one up.
First, a similar situation to the McFarlane one saw the Fulham loanee hit the target but he was brilliantly denied by Walker, the former Barnet keeper at full stretch to tip over. Solihull wanted a foul after a collision minutes later, but Sanderson raced through and smashed an effort against the crossbar and back out again.
Better from the Cards, who finished the half the stronger and would be hoping for more in the second half.
Half time: Solihull Moors 0-0 Woking
It took just five minutes for Woking to take a deserved lead, when a well worked move saw the ball shifted out to Drewe, whose cross was tapped in at the back post by Sanderson.
The Cards would double their lead just after the hour mark when Drewe was found inside the box, powering a header into the top corner and from there, Moors heads dropped and Woking killed off the game.
Wakeling was lively all night, and denied well by the body of Jaaskelainen after he evaded the defence, but when the ball fell to substitute Kelly inside the box with just under 15 minutes to play, there was one thing on his mind as he drilled low past Walker to give the Cards a unassailable lead.
There was a chance for fellow sub Josh Osude to get his name on the scoresheet, but he fired wide, before Ward, also off the bench, fired over with the last kick of the game.
All in all, a fantastic night for the Cards, who deserved the scoreline and were excellent at a tough place to go and get three points. The focus moves swiftly onto the visit of Truro City to the Laithwaite on Saturday.
Woking: Jaaskelainen, Richards, Okoli, Tunji Akinola, Beautyman (Osude 75′), Drewe, Hinds (Odusina 85′), O’Brien (Ward 85′), Turner (Forster-Caskey 85′), Andrews, Sanderson (Kelly 60′)
Subs not used: Norcott, Akinola
Booked: Okoli 46′, Drewe 64′
Goals: Sanderson 49′, Drewe 62′, Kelly 76′
Solihull Moors: Walker, Clarke, Green, Osborne (Whyte-Hall 89′), Whitmore, Nicholson, McFarlane (French 71′), Worman (Tipton 45′), Lipsiuc (Stevenson 71′), Wakeling (Bowen 89′) Rutherford
Subs not used: Brown, Jackson