City bow out of Emirates FA Cup.

Oxford City 2

Harrison 83’

Humphrey-Ewers 84’

Scarborough Athletic 3

Weledgi 24’

Colville 54+2’

Maloney 90+1'

Oxford City exited the FA Cup after a late Lewis Maloney stunner consigned the Hoops to a 3-2 defeat against Scarborough Athletic.

In what seemed to be a repeat of Saturday's action, Scarborough raced into a two-goal lead against a disappointing City side, before City brought the game back to level pegging with goals from Tom Harrison and Latrell Humphrey-Ewers.

However that wasn't the end of the action, as Lewis Maloney skipped past a challenge in added time and curled the ball exquisitely into the top corner to win it for the National League North side.

SELECTION

The Hoops made two changes for the evening fixture. Andre Burley returned from international duty on Monday, having featured for St. Kitts and Nevis, and came straight into the starting XI. Nya Kirby also returned to the side, replacing Reece Fleet, who was ruled out through injury.

The visitors, making a huge 444-mile round trip, only made one change from the XI that were denied victory late on Saturday. Lewis Maloney dropped to the bench, with Luca Colville taking his place.

First-Half

Scarborough looked to make a similar start to the one that saw them leading within 5 minutes on Saturday, with long range efforts from Frank Mulhern and Luca Colville.

Renny Smith had Oxford’s best chance of the early stages, managing to stay on his feet after contact in the box, before his shot was cleared off the line.

The impressive Kieran Weledji was causing problems down the right too, and the away side very nearly took the lead when his cutback fell to Darren Dom Tear, but his effort from close range was superbly fingertipped over by Chris Haigh.

City struggled to deal with Scarborough’s long balls from the back, and fell behind just moments after when a corner came into captain Will Thornton, who headed across for Weledji to volley in from close range.

The game opened up after this, but the Hoops were still struggling to create clear chances when forward, despite having a lot of the ball.

And at the end of the half, City’s wastefulness in the final third would cost them.

In added time, the visitors doubled their lead, when, attacking down the right once again, the ball fell to Luca Coalville, who tucked away brilliantly into the bottom left corner.

The Hoops trailed at the break, with 45 left to salvage their cup dream.

Half-Time: Oxford City 0-2 Scarborough Athletic

Second-half

Oxford started the second half witch more presence, but once more were struggling to put efforts on target.

The Scarborough defence were watertight, until 10 minutes remained, when City would finally get on the scoresheet.

In what would be a chaotic final period, a cross came to the head off Olly Sanderson, and his low header was parried brilliantly, but only to the feet of the onrushing Tom Harrison. who had stayed up from a prior corner, to fire home from close range.

Queue chaos. Just seconds later, the Hoops’ pressure had continued and the ball fell to half time substitute Latrell Humphrey-Ewers, whos effort from just inside the box bounced through a defenders legs, and squeezed inside the far post. The Hoops were level.

But the Seadogs, now knowing that another 30 minutes and potentially penalties were suddenly on the horizon, took the game to City at the end.

Firstly, an exquisite cross by Weledji onto the head of Alex Wiles, and with the goal at his mercy, the midfielder was unable to get the right contact on the ball and it flew wide.

And then, just after the board showed fived minutes time added on, a remarkable winner was scored by Lewis Maloney himself.

The substitute brought it down on his chest, faking to shoot past one, before curling an incredible effort into the top right corner to send the travelling support wild.

City had just seconds to keep their hopes of qualifying alive, even throwing Chris Haigh forward for a corner, but were unable to equalise, and bowed out of the FA Cup.

As for the visitors, and their fantastic travelling fans, they are set to witness their side’s first ever FA Cup Round 1 appearance against Forest Green in November.

Match Details

Attendance: 602 (113 Scarborough)

Oxford City Starting XI: 

Haigh, Burley, Kirby (Humphrey-Ewers 46’), Harrison, Coyle (Fonkeu 62’), Sanderson, McEachran, Roberts, Smith, Carroll, Moore

Subs not used: Miccio, Brzozowski, Wilson

Scarborough Athletic Starting XI: 

Cracknell, Weledji, Thornton, Purver, Mulhern, Colville (Gooda ’87), Wiles, Qualter, Tear (Maloney, 68’), Brown, Barnes

Subs not used: Coulson, Green, Bancroft, Durose