MATCH REPORT: Woking 2-2 Boreham Wood

Woking 2-2 Boreham Wood 

Enterprise National League

Laithwaite Community Stadium

10th March 2026

Craig Ross, Dale Gorman and Jake Hyde took charge of their third game in interim charge of Woking with the visit of high flying Boreham Wood to the Laithwaite.

The trio made just the one change to the side victorious on Saturday, enforced as well with Aiden O’Brien sidelined. In came Tariq Hinds, whilst Sam Ashford returned to the bench following the conclusion of his loan at Hampton & Richmond, and there was space for academy graduate Kemall Wilson as well.

In an opening twenty minutes where the away side looked to put their stamp on the game, they failed to create anything really clear cut. Fantastic work from Timi Odusina to block Matt Rush’s shot after a liquid touch from the forward was all to note, until the Wood top scorer was found in the middle for a tap in after good work down the left hand side from Abdul Abdulmalik.

Woking’s response was positive, and positive play from Matt Ward saw Marley Marshall-Miranda lunge into the forward. After a similarly cynical foul on Hinds earlier in the half, Marshall-Miranda was shown his marching orders for a second yellow card.

Another rash foul from a Wood player, this time Junior Robinson, resulted in a yellow card when he went in high on Andrews, before somehow Woking didn’t level. First Roy Syla’s free kick was tipped over by Curd before the resulting corner was headed by Okoli onto the bar, with the ball then hitting the post.

Boreham Wood regathered themselves after taking Robinson off for Tom White, and saw out the lead into half time.

Half-Time: Woking 0-1 Boreham Wood

Woking would level up the game just over ten minutes into the second half when a swift break from Sanderson and Ward saw them combine, with Ward putting in a sumptuous low cross which was prodded over the line by Timmy Akinola for his first goal for the club.

The Cards had their tails up, and after a superb low strike from Andrews struck the post, their next attack saw Hinds dance past two players, combine with Ward and find Sanderson, whose low strike hit the post before the follow up was brilliantly saved by Ted Curd, who put his body on the line.

Another brilliant Curd save denied substitute Harry Beautyman’s header from an excellent Drewe cross, with the on loan Chelsea stopper stretching to his left to claw the ball away.

It was going to take some fortune to beat Curd, and with 81 minutes gone, a corner from Andrews was headed goalbound by Drewe, with the ball deflecting past Curd courtesy of a man on the line and into the back of the net.

With the Wood now forced to leave space in behind, Jack Turner nailed a strike at goal on the half volley that flew just over the crossbar.

Woking were given a big scare in added time when a ball flashed across goal but wasn’t met by a man in blue in the middle, but the Wood equalised right at the death when a low cross was cleared off a Woking player and into the back of his own net.

A devastating blow at the death for the Cards, but still a point gained against a strong side and a good attacking performance.

Woking: Jaaskelainen, Drewe, Richards, Okoli, Odusina, Andrews, Tim Akinola (Turner 74′), Hinds (Beautyman 74′), Ward, Syla (Forster-Caskey 82′), Sanderson (Ashford 91).

Unused substitutes: Ross, Pennant, Wilson

Goals: Akinola 55′, Drewe 82′

Sponsors MOTM (Cards Trust): Roy Syla

Attendance: 1,249