Aylesbury United 1 AFC Dunstable 3

Aylesbury United 1-3 AFC Dunstable

Saturday 25th January 2025

Having lost our previous four league games, we travelled to The Meadow more in hope than

expectation and came away with a very welcome victory against a team that we do not have a great

record against away from home.

AFC had the first effort early in the game, but Khyan’s shot was well wide of the target – a bright

start but Aylesbury slowly but surely started to take control of the game and had a few decent pot

shots but they were well dealt with by Matt.

Against the run of play, we took the lead on 31 minutes with an absolute pearler of a goal from

Sean. He picked the ball up just outside the area and hit an unstoppable shot from the edge of the

box giving the home keeper absolutely no chance of getting anywhere near it. A superb goal to put

us 1-0 up going in to the break.

AFC started the second half taking the game to Aylesbury and were unlucky not to go further ahead

following some lovely approach play but Charlie hit his shot just wide of the goal. As good as Sean’s

first half goal was, he surpassed it on 51 minutes with a very similar effort to his first one to put us 2-

0 up.

Once again, Aylesbury took the ascendancy but with no real clear cut chances – again Matt and his

defence coped extremely well with anything thrown at them. With 64 gone, we should have sewn

the game up when we were awarded a penalty. Sean stepped up for hopefully his hat trick but the

keeper got down well to make a decent save.

It was a little bit end to end at this stage – Joel Anker had come on for his debut earlier in the half

and was unlucky not to score on 68 with a shot that the keeper parried and grabbed at the second

attempt. A minute later, Aylesbury should have scored when Kwad slipped in the box allowing the

home striker a free shot but Matt pulled off another good save. Just after that, Charlie made a run

through the middle and as the keeper came rushing out, Charlie chipped him with lovely technique

but the ball struck the post and away to safety – so unlucky.

A series of substitutions saw Harry come on for Shawn but he only lasted 4 minutes before he was

forced off with an injury and we had another debut from Simone Troso.

With 6 minutes of the 90 left, Aylesbury got back in to the game following a poor challenge in

midfield which led to a breakaway that saw a very decent finish from Kian Henry to halve the deficit.

As we went in to 5 minutes added, we should have scored from a Joel effort but the keeper did well

as he rushed out to gather the ball. Hearts in mouths when Matt went down in what looked an

innocuous challenge but he could not carry on and with all 5 subs having been made, Russell took

over in goal. Matt was down for a good few minutes so we had no idea how long was left for us to

hang on but we need not have worried as with 99 minutes showing on the clock we broke away and

following some lovely control in the box, the ball fell to Bruce who tucked the ball away to put us 3-1

up. The ref blew the whistle as soon as the game restarted.

An excellent team performance and a big well done to the whole team.

MOM as voted by the committee was Sean Duodu.

Team line up (subs in brackets); Matt Bonsu, Albert Wood (Joel Anker 57), Kwadwo Bugyei-Kyei, Kyle

Lynch, Stan Georgiou, Shawn Joseph (Harry Riley 77 (Simone Troso 77)), George Joyce, Charlie Davis,

Sean Duodo (Russell Berko 86), Khyan Frazer-Williams (Bruce Ovbiye-Nsang 73), Kyle Brooks