The Shots fell to a 3-0 defeat to Woking at the Laithwaite Community Stadium as a brace from Tariq Hinds added to Dan Moss’ goal to seal the win within the first 20 minutes.
Woking opened the scoring after just three minutes. A long throw put pressure on the Shots defence and thought they half-cleared their lines, the ball was redelivered to the far-post and fell to Tariq Hinds who had time to take a touch and curl an effort into the bottom corner.
Ryan Jones saw an effort from outside the box deflected just past the post as a quick free-kick saw the Shots have their first sight at goal in the sixth minute but in the 10th minute it could have been two for Woking as Aaron Jones superbly blocked Lewis Walker’s effort from point-blank as the Woking striker fired the rebound over the bar.
Kwame Thomas’ header down for Hady Ghandour two minutes later saw the Aldershot striking partnership linking up well but Ghandour’s effort was high and wide and just a minute later than that, Woking had pulled further in front.
Lewis Walker saw his effort blocked but the ball fell to Dan Moss who bundled the ball toward goal on the rebound and it bounced over Marcus Dewhurst and into the back of the net.
And just six minutes later, Woking had scored a third as Hinds scored his second. Adam Chicksen’s delivery to the far-post found Hinds to turn it in.
In the 34th minute, Thomas made a significant contribution at the opposite end as he was on hand to make another goal-line block and as the first-half entered stoppage-time, Dewhurst made a brilliant intervention rushing out to deny Aiden O’Brien.
HALF-TIME
Aldershot did start the second-half with a lot more conviction as they found some joy down their left, especially through Tyler Frost in the first few minutes from the restart.
Ryan Jones’ through ball to Frost played him down the left-wing and he delivered a dangerous low-cross that was cleared with Hady Ghandour waiting in the middle.
Popping up on the other side a couple of minutes later, Jones cut in from the right, but his shot was deflected past the post.
A minute later from that the Shots broke again down the left as Frost drove towards the left, he got held up by the Woking defence but found Ghandour with a backheel, but the Shots striker’s powerful shot was over the bar.
Jack Barham was brought on in the 56th minute and just a minute later he was instantly introduced to the action breaking down the right, but his low cross was gathered by Will Jaaskelainen.
In the 69th minute, there was controversy when Dan Moss who had already been booked violently took out Ryan Jones who ended up having to be stretchered off but Referee Aaron Farmer didn’t even give a free-kick and instead booked both Jack Barham and Marcus Dewhurst for their protests.
But the Shots couldn’t threaten Jaaskelainen’s goal in the time remaining as Woking were happy to sit on their lead and it was the home side who took the three points.
Attendance: 4701 (1149 Away)
Shots lineup: 28. Marcus Dewhurst, 8. Tyler Frost (24. Maxwell Mullins, 84′), 11. Ryan Jones (9. Kai Corbett, 72′), 12. Keane Anderson (32. Emmanuel Maja, 80′), 17. Aaron Jones (C) (27. James Henry, 64′), 23. Hady Ghandour (22. Jack Barham, 56′), 33. Luca Woodhouse, 34. Dejan Tetek, 35. Dan Ellison, 36. Will Armitage, 39. Kwame Thomas.
Subs not used: 1. Jordi van Stappershoef, 10. Josh Barrett.
Woking lineup: 22. Will Jaaskelainen (C), 2. Dan Moss (17. Matt Ward, 72′), 4. Chinwike Okoli, 6. Jamie Andrews, 8. Dale Gorman (23. Jermaine Anderson, 38′), 9. Aiden O’Brien (27. Dion Kelly-Evans, 67′), 10. Lewis Walker, 14. Tariq Hinds, 15. Adam Chicksen (30. Frank Vincent, 43′), 16. Tunji Akinola, 20. Sam Ashford (18. Joshua Osunde, 87′).
Subs not used: 28. Ollie Webber, 35. Charlie Sayers.
