Windlesham Village 1 Oxshott Royals Rebels 1
Royals came within seconds of losing their first league game in two years in a thrilling match that had everything, including seven yellow cards, a sending off, a missed penalty and a last-gasp equaliser.
Oxshott had the best of the first-half possession, although Windlesham looked the most threatening on the break, so the Royals could regard themselves as unlucky when the home side took the lead just four minutes from the interval.
Royals continued to press at the start of the second half but a combination of fine goalkeeping from the Windlesham keeper and poor penetration kept them off the score sheet.
As the game entered its final stages, Oxshott moved to a 3-5-2 formation and threw everything they had at Windlesham but as the minutes ticked by it seemed Royals could do nothing to beat the home keeper.
As Oxshott pushed for the equaliser, the match began to heat up and the referee was forced to show yellow cards to both sides, with a second booking for a Windlesham player, seeing the home side reduced to 10 men in the 70th minute.
Six minutes later Mcloughlin was brought down in the area but the Windlesham keeper continued his fine performance by saving the resulting spot kick, and it seemed that despite their dominance Royals would go home empty handed.
Four minutes into injury time, however, Mcloughlin floated in a free kick, which first Crane, then Neuner headed against the bar. Windlesham cleared into the path of Tough who drilled the ball against an opposition defender and into the net.
Man of the match was Crane, who was rock steady in defence throughout.




















